Jim Szymanski 
On Monday night, my nephew watched a documentary on Netflix about the making of Indie games on the XBox platform. After the show, this committed PlayStation Fanboy decided to download the Super Meatboy trial, one of the games featured in the documentary, to my XBox. Thirty minutes later he and a friend got sucked in … Read more
March 27, 2013 K–12 schools, higher-education institutions cite post-graduation preparedness, manageability and cost-saving benefits as they deploy the new Windows. REDMOND, Wash. — March 27, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that 10 K–12 school districts and higher-education institutions have signed on to use Windows 8 for more than 540,000 students and faculty to prepare … Read more
So last week I decided to replace my outdated video camera with a spanking new model. Phone cameras are nice for quick clips, but nothing like using the real thing Anyway, the first thing you need to do when you get a new “anything” is accessorize. My new Canon Vixia HF R30 comes with a … Read more
Like many other people, despite efforts by social networks I go out of my way to keep my business and personal live separate. Don’t have anything to hide in either, but aside from my company’s CEO, who happens to be a personal friend, there are no other connections between my business and personal life. So, … Read more
Looks like the WP7.8 update to fix the freezing/battery draining Live Tile bug is beginning to roll out. Just in time for me. Seems I have a bunch of tiles that stopped updating in the past 24-48 hours. Been 56 degrees and dark in Florida for at least a day now. No severe battery drain … Read more
Decided to pull the trigger on Office 365 today. I knew I would eventually fold to the pressure of upgrading Office, and my copy of Publisher 2003 was really getting old. While I wasn’t instructed to do so, the first thing I did was uninstall my copies of; Publisher 2003, Office Home & Student 2010 … Read more
Chrome dropped 1.21%, while IE gained 0.68% in market share last month, putting Chrome at a 17 month low. Hell, if wasn’t for Chrome being attached to every free app download on the Internet, including the ever popular Adobe Reader, I wonder if anyone would actually use it.
It took two years for Windows Phone to offer the option to keep Wi-Fi running when the phone is sleeping. Hopefully it won’t take as long for Microsoft to include the option to put Wi-Fi asleep when my Surface RT is sleeping. The reasoning is the same as for Windows Phone, and every other mobile … Read more
Well mostly anyway. A week or so ago I saw a little blurb about how Rain-X could help to reduce fingerprints and smudges on your touch screen. So I rushed out to my garage, picked up my trusty yellow bottle and quickly applied said product to my Surface RT and Asus S200E screens. After several … Read more
While this post is not directly related to security…I felt it was worth sharing with others. Who is th3j35t3r? That’s the million dollar question now isn’t it? For those not familiar th3j35t3r is a cyber-activist known for attacking known terrorist websites as well as Westboro Baptist Church and factions of Anonymous. There have been many … Read more