I have some time to sneak in while waiting for my flight at the airport in Singapore, so I decided to post the most ridiculous bug I’ve ever come across. The Welcome screen may be displayed for 30 seconds during the logon process after you set a solid color as the desktop background in Windows [...]

If you don’t already know, all editions of Windows 7 discs ships with the same content. The only difference is determined by a configuration file which decides which edition your Windows 7 disc or ISO is. Knowing that, there is a tool out there to change your edition to any edition, or make it a [...]

These are hilarious. I love them!

This is something cool for all new Windows 7 owners. There was one feature in Windows 7 that did not make the cut, which was Virtual WiFi. This basically allows you to create virtual wireless adapters out of your single wireless LAN card. What does this mean to consumers? It’ll allow your wireless LAN card [...]

Welcome to our Singapore’s very own Windows 7 Social Party. We have an exciting party in-stalled (har har! Lame pun.) for everyone in Singapore. We have catered food. We have soft drinks. We have potluck from you. We have party music. We have games. We have Windows 7 Laptops waiting for you to try Windows [...]

Remember the good old days when you’re able to teardrop someone who was on Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or Windows NT and send a BSOD to their computer? Well, I do. Now, for the limited time offer only, we are able to relive this experience once again until Microsoft releases a security patch. This affects [...]

This is a very interesting article I read yesterday. Using psychology to design for persuasion. One section that got me thinking was “The paradox of choice”. The Opensource Initiative and the Free Software Foundation advocates the freedom of choice and competition within the technological world, among the freedom to share, study and modify software. With [...]

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7 by utilizing key Windows 7 features such as: Taskbar Libraries Multi Touch Sensors and Location Ribbon Trigger Start Services Instrumentation and ETW Application Compatability And [...]

After the keynote at the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2009 on June 8 when they announced the 13” MacBook Pro, I decided to take the plunge and buy it. For almost 2 weeks I stalked various Apple fan sites, like macrumors, to find out what I’m actually getting myself into. There were various problems [...]

Bryan Lunduke did a great presentation why Linux sucks, and taking a very pragmatic approach to describing specifically and what steps Linux should take to fix them. I’m so impressed with this presentation that I might just do a “Mac OS Sucks!” or “Windows 7 Sucks!” presentation on the same, hopefully non-threatening, approach. Anyway, here’s [...]