Archive for April, 2007

I need a new computer

Monday, April 9th, 2007

I need to get a new laptop to replace my two-year-old Thinkpad X41 tablet and I’m considering either getting the new version of the Lenovo tablet or getting some kind of Macbook. I was primarily a Mac user until the late 1990s when an accumulation of discontents pushed me into using Windows (poorly built computers, [...]

Vista

Monday, April 9th, 2007

I’ve started using Vista on my desktop machines and just came across two features that are quite cool. First, Vista now has something comparable to what Quicksilver provides on Macs. If you hit the Windows/Start key and start typing the name of a program, file, or website it will start running. For example, if I [...]