Ex-Windows 8 chief agrees not to badmouth Microsoft, gets stock payout

“Microsoft’s former head of Windows 8 development has agreed not to badmouth Microsoft or work for some of its competitors and in return will receive a payout for unvested stock in the company, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. The “retirement agreement” with Steven Sinofsky, who left Microsoft in November after leading the development of its Windows 8… Read More »

Add “Print Directory” to your right-click menu

There’s a really simple way to print the contents of any folder (directory) by adding a “Print Directory Listing” item to your right-click context menu. If you do this, you’ll be able to right-click on any folder and print a list of its contents. Microsoft describes this procedure here and provides a “Fix-it” that adds the a Print Directory… Read More »

Geek vs. Revo: Which is best?

While Revo Uninstaller remains a great choice, we’ve both become fond of Geek Uninstaller lately, for one reason: Simplicity and speed. Geek is faster than Revo Uninstaller and is simpler to use. The user doesn’t have to decide “Are you sure?” when removing leftover items. With Geek you don’t have to select any leftover items, you just click… Read More »

A Dream of Fire and Fear

The first thing I notice is the smoke, the smell of it. An acrid, cloying stink overwhelms my senses and crawls over and into me like a billion ethereal tendrils. The fear grows inside. It is a grotesque unyielding fear. It saturates me and makes it nearly impossible to open my eyes, my eyelids are heavy with terror.… Read More »

Bing it on

We’ll we finally took the Bing it On challenge. And unlike the people on the TV commercial, we both choose Google over Bing. Bing has done a really good job of copying Google, but the search results were a little weaker and not ordered the same. So we prefer Google. Your results may vary. We like you to… Read More »

Try Windows 8.1 Public Preview the safe and easy way

We were going to start off by saying that this tip is more for advanced users, but we decided the way beginners and intermediate users get to be advanced users is by digging in and learning new things. Those of you who choose to install Windows 8.1 on your computer should know that it cannot be updated to… Read More »