Category Archives: Computer/Internet

Adventures with HDMI Continue

Posted on June 16, 2011 by El Guru

This morning after doling a ton of Windows Updates along with an update of the video software. After all the reboots were done, I was getting all my applications back on their correct monitors. I was working in Firefox and … Continue reading →

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BlueGriffon 1.1 Released

Posted on June 11, 2011 by El Guru

BlueGriffion by Disruptive Innovations is an open-source Mozilla powered web page editor. I used this a little bit the other day. It does seems like it can do quite a bit and a lot more stable than the NVU web … Continue reading →

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How to turn off RealPlayer “Download” button

Posted on June 5, 2011 by El Guru

The newer versions of Real Player have added an annoying feature which will allow you to download a video playing in the browser. At first I thought disabling all the RealPlayer plugins within Firefox would take care of this. It … Continue reading →

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A Small Sneak Peek at ‘Windows 8′

Posted on June 2, 2011 by El Guru

Well, this is certainly a major change for the next Windows operating system (code name Windows 8). Yahoo! says the new user interface is a lot like that of the Windows Phone UI.  Big design emphasis to run on touch-screen … Continue reading →

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Adventures with HDMI Part 2

Posted on May 26, 2011 by El Guru

Everything seems to be working fine now. However, every time I restarted Windows my speakers would be disabled. Looking at Playback Devices panel (right click on the speaker icon on the Windows 7 Taskbar and select Playback Devices)  I noticed … Continue reading →

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Adventures with HDMI, AMD & ATI

Posted on May 24, 2011 by El Guru

I am posting this in hopes it will save someone else from the hours of frustration and viewing countless discussion forums on how to fix this fairly simple problem. In my home office I have two separate computer systems one … Continue reading →

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Microsoft has Money burning holes in their pockets?

Posted on May 16, 2011 by El Guru

So last week was the big announcement of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of Skype. Some people may have forgotten back in 2008, Microsoft bought Danger (the makers of Sidekick) for $500 million. That did not work out as well as … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Skype

Posted on May 13, 2011 by El Guru

With the recent news that Microsoft is acquiring Skype, it did not take long for someone to come out with a packaging design for the new Microsoft Skype. The Super Annoying Edition (with Clippy) is one of 12 editions coming … Continue reading →

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Latest Kinect hack gives it self-awareness

Posted on March 15, 2011 by El Guru

Via the Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog. What could possibly go wrong?

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Microsoft Does It Again

Posted on March 15, 2011 by El Guru

Microsoft really needs to something about their PR Department. Via the Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog. Microsoft has apologized for a Japan earthquake tweet from its Bing team that sparked a backlash Saturday on Twitter. At 7:45 a.m., Microsoft posted the … Continue reading →

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