Matthew Griffith's Blog

Cutting QA Resources or Budgets

Posted June 1, 2008 in Software , Technology , Testing | Comments (0) | 133 Views

Time and time again I've heard the argument that the QA team for a given software product team is expendable. I completely disagree, if you want a quality product you need a full QA team of 1:1 Testers to Developers or [Show Full Post]

Live Mesh Tech Preview

Posted May 25, 2008 in Software , Technology | Comments (1) | 126 Views

Yesterday I signed up for the Windows Live Mesh Tech Preview. I really like the design and the quick startup time. One of the first things I noticed is that you have 5GB of online storage. You setup a folder on [Show Full Post]

Windows Mobile Live Search

Posted December 13, 2007 in Reviews , Software , Technology | Comments (0) | 223 Views

The latest killer application for the Windows Mobile phones is the newly updated Windows Mobile Live Search. Some of the key features that I like are: Speech recognition - no typing required, nice when your thumbs are not available :) [Show Full Post]

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) | 192 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]

Slacker software update

Posted October 26, 2007 in Software | Comments (0) | 78 Views

Slacker has a new update to their desktop software. The feature I love that they added was the "mini player". It is small and always on top of other windows so when you want to change the music it's easy to [Show Full Post]

Skydrive is cool

Posted October 15, 2007 in Software | Comments (0) | 88 Views

If you haven't heard yet Microsoft has released Skydrive which is a site that you can store up to 1GB of files for free. Also there is a plug-in for Windows Live Writer which allows you to link files on your [Show Full Post]

My Urge is over

Posted October 15, 2007 in Music , Software | Comments (0) | 79 Views

Finally MTV Urge has been shut down through Windows Media Player. Now I either continue my music subscription with them and use the biggest PILE of POOH (AKA Real Player) or I move to Microsoft Zune Marketplace. I will probably move [Show Full Post]

Synergy

Posted September 24, 2007 in Software | Comments (0) | 59 Views

My brother has been using a software called Synergy for a couple of years now. It is essentially a virtual KVM switch. For example, say you have two PC's that you use on your desk and you have two displays that [Show Full Post]

Slacker.com

Posted September 4, 2007 in Music , Software | Comments (0) | 108 Views

My friend blogged about this a while back. To those who live in a whole most of the time since they are busy with work, family or other things need to check this out. It's the new way to listen to [Show Full Post]