Doing More With…

I came across this blog posting a couple of days ago and I have to say that it is one of the best write-ups on Windows 7 features.  Tim’s post includes a number of hidden features and shows off some of the under the hood enhancements.

A few of the tips (and developments) that I really appreciate are the updates to the taskbar in side-mounted position, the ability to choose various presentation modes (via Win+P) and the ADD helper-like Win+Home combination that will minimize everything besides your active window.

Be sure to read through this one if you are currently running Windows 7.

Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets.

Hey all you Windows 7 Beta testers out there.

Microsoft has released an update for the Media Center bug in Beta 1 (Build 7000).  The bug has a nasty tendency to eat the beginning of some mp3 files if they also contained meta-data.

If your Windows installation has already chewed up some of your files MS notes that you may be able to recover them with the “Previous Version” backup that may be automatically stored (a system restore point and drive protection will have to be on).

Here is the link to the MS download page

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/961367

I found a broken link online referring to this and with a little big of digging got the correct address.  This tool provides an abstraction layer to your WiFi card under XP that allows you to create multiple virtual wireless cards.

With this tool you could connect to multiple wireless networks simultaneously and ever create profile specific NICs.  Follow the link below for more details and the download.

Microsoft Research Virtual WiFi – Microsoft Research.

Windows Live Writer can be downloaded from Microsoft @ http://get.live.com/betas/writer_betas

There are also a number of plugins available that will let you embed online videos, set your blog post to a "Now Playing" tagline and much more.  The application also allows you to do offline blogging, so if you don’t have a hotspot handy and you need to get that thought off your brain…

As I have more of a chance put this app through it’s paces I will update my blog with an additional article.  I will be reviewing some of the available plugins and test the various formatting features.

As I am primarily using a hosted WP site, I am hoping to hear from some of you that have experience with it on the multitude of blogging platforms.

Send me a ping… Cheers, Bryan