All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘Windows’

It is time. To The Mac!

Posted Jan 3 2010 by Oli in , , with 1 Comment

In late 2006 I wrote an article about how I switched from PC to Mac, and through frustration over a few petty things I switched back. The main reason was simply that the Mac didn’t allow me to play my PC games, nor did it (perhaps more importantly!) allow me to continue developing MS-based applications using the .NET Framework (a …

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7 Days with Windows 7: Part 1

Posted Oct 11 2009 by Oli in , , with 8 Comments

OK, jokes aside, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 this week. I was keen to see if it lived up to the hype, and wanted to see for myself whether this really was Windows “Vista Redux”. I was an early adopter of Windows Vista, and to be honest I’ve been reasonably happy with it. …

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Setting Sail Across the C

Posted Sep 2 2009 by Oli in , with 6 Comments

I’m a Microsoft developer. There, I said it. I’ve grown up in a world of BASIC, from the early days of QuickBASIC through to VB.NET today. It’s a fantastic, easy going world to live in – particularly since .NET – as everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is laid out for you. As a development environment, it’s so easy to get …

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Sync All Your Calendars

Posted Apr 6 2009 by Oli in , , with 8 Comments

All this talk recently of browsers and email clients has distracted me from another problem that I’ve been struggling with for several years now: How do I keep all my calendars in sync? It sounds like a simple question, and in theory the answer should be simple. However, I learnt many years ago that if my gut feeling was “The …

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