IE7 Pro

Posted November 27, 2007 in Geek , Software | Comments (0) | 122 Views

I was listening to a Windows Weekly podcast and heard about the IE7 Pro add-in to Internet Explorer 7 or 6. It adds functionality that is already in Firefox. I like the feature set: Enhance Internet Explorer's Tabbed Browsing Capabilities [Show Full Post]

Vista performance improvements

Posted November 20, 2007 in Geek , Technology , Software | Comments (2) | 193 Views

This morning I found some tips on how to improve Vista's performance. The downfall to doing this is losing "Vista features". If you disable "Windows Search" and "Superfetch" services you will see a performance boost. (Not huge but it helps) This [Show Full Post]

Geek claims he knows more about football than I do

Posted October 28, 2007 in Geek , Sports | Comments (4) | 172 Views

I was at lunch the other day with the group I work with at Microsoft. I had a discussion with some of the people I haven't ever worked directly with. One of them started to rant on about how he has [Show Full Post]

Tafiti.com - Search and Silverlight experiment

Posted August 22, 2007 in Geek , Software | Comments (0) | 70 Views

I heard about this new search/silverlight experiment that Microsoft is trying out. I used it a little bit and really like it. You can drag and drop search results that you find, you can filter based on your query. I think [Show Full Post]

Visual Studio Flat Solution Explorer

Posted May 24, 2007 in Geek , Programming , Technology | Comments (0) | 31 Views

When I worked at Indie Built Game Studio in Salt Lake we had a tool that we used to quickly find files in our game solution files. The only downside to it is it only worked for C++ applications. I found [Show Full Post]

Performance Update for Outlook 2007

Posted April 23, 2007 in Geek , Technology | Comments (0) | 23 Views

I heard about the performance update for Outlook 2007 on the podcast Windows Weekly Episode #22. I installed it and have noticed a difference with the way Outlook 2007 performs. I have a lot of mail that comes through my [Show Full Post]