This is a little flash movie I created of the new taskbar in Windows 7. It is truly one of the most innovative features I have seen Microsoft come up with in a while.
Archive for August, 2009
Demonstration of the new Windows 7 Taskbar
Monday, August 24th, 2009Sprint and hidden numbers
Monday, August 10th, 2009One of our employees joined his Sprint phone to our company plan. He had come from another employee plan where they had restricted his ability to roam or call long distance. However, once he was on our plan he was still unable to perform these functions. He decided to camp out on their tech support line this morning to see what was the matter. After making it to Tier 5 tech support (I did not know you could even get that high) he reached a tech that was worth his salt and knew what the problem was. It turns out that for some accounts there are two numbers. A hidden internal Sprint number and your normal external number. They had removed the restrictions on the external number but they had not removed the restrictions from the internal number.
I hope this helps someone in the same situation.
Windows Live Writer
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Today I took some time to set up the new Windows Live Writer on my Windows 7 RC2 installation. I must say, it is a nice utility. I allows you to easily place:
Pictures (I needed to go on more hikes)
| Tables | With |
| Useful | Information |
Maps to your office
and other stuff such as photo albums, videos and tags into your blog.
Plus you can publish directly to several popular blogging software packages such as WordPress, SharePoint, Microsoft’s Live Spaces, Blogger and others.
And the crowning gem? A spellchecker!
This one gets two thumbs up and a Woot. It’s about time we started seeing creative and well written products coming out of Redmond again.