Author: Vince Kimball

I realized driving home tonight that today is the anniversary of my great grandmother's death. Yvonne A. MacSwain 1900 – 1994  

Multiple monitors increase productivity. Anyone who has visited Gizmodo HQ will know why we're posting about this: a study sponsored by NEC, ATI, and the University of Utah touting the productivity benefits of having multiple monitors connected to your PC. Normally we'd be somewhat suspect of a study like this, given that NEC (which makes… Continue reading Multiple monitors increase productivity

Teaching the Old File System New Tricks. A CNET News.com story, here, looks at Longhorn’s so-called new file system. Longhorn is the next scheduled, major release of Microsoft’s flagship operating system and successor to Windows XP. Penned by Martin LaMonica, the news story looks at what the file system, dubbed WinFS, is and is not. What… Continue reading Teaching the Old File System New Tricks

Fighting to Preserve Old Programs. Like original prints of old books, software should be preserved for future study, archivists argue. The DMCA prevents efforts to preserve classics like Lotus 1-2-3. but archivists are trying to get around the restrictions. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]

Outlook Command-Line Switches. Many of you will already know that there are a number of useful Outlook command line switches that you can use for a large variety of troubleshooting purposes such as; cleaning up the Calendar, cleaning and regenerating Free/Busy and Reminders, starting Outlook in Safe mode to skip previews and toolbar customisations… can you… Continue reading Outlook Command-Line Switches

Faith Fades Where It Once Burned Strong. In much of Europe the ties of Christianity no longer bind the way they once did and often seem not to bind at all. By Frank Bruni. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Adding new commands to Windows explorer. Every now and again I end up in a bothersome situation where I have files in multiple sub-directories that I want to bring together into one directory.  This usually entails descending into each directory, selecting the contents and doing a cut & paste into the parent.  It gets tiresome.… Continue reading Adding new commands to Windows explorer

BBC News: Web guru fights info pollution. “The entire ideology of information technology for the last 50 years has been that more information is better, that mass producing information is better,” he says. But the net is now so much an machine with all the answers instantly, it has mutated into a “procrastination apparatus…” [Tomalak's… Continue reading Web guru fights info pollution

Boston Globe: Missing the point on antipiracy technology. Unless consumers are forced to buy computers that will not copy CDs — fat chance — it's impossible to completely eliminate music piracy. So instead, the industry might be designing systems that seek to gently nudge people toward honesty, rather than dragging them in chains toward the… Continue reading Missing the point on antipiracy technology

Foo Camp Wrap-up. I didn't have the time at Foo Camp to blog much about what I was doing, who I was meeting, and what we were discussing. I was too busy and interested to tear myself away. I went to bed each night very tired. Luckily, a few others provided some on-line notes and such:… Continue reading Foo Camp Wrap-up