Leading on from yesterday’s article which looked at modern digital displays such as LCDs, LEDs and plasmas, the concept of the native resolution and how lower resolutions may not align with the physical rows and columns of pixels on a display. Today, I have another tip to further improve the readability of text on your screen. ClearType, …
Tag: Windows
Jan 18 2011
Improve Screen Readability – Enable & Tune ClearType
- By Boydo in Display, Imaging, LCD, LED, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Plasma, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Jan 17 2011
Improve Screen Readability – LCD Screen Native Resolution
- By Boydo in CRT, Display, Imaging, LCD, LED, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Plasma, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Vista, Windows XP
It never fails to amaze me how many people do not take the time to optimise the readability of their screens particularly when they will be using it for many hours a day. I must have lost count of the number of times I have seen LCD screens running below their native resolution resulting in …
Jan 15 2011
Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Imminent
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Security, Technology, Windows Phone 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Just a quick update for this evening. The rumour mills are in full swing with reports of the first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be released very soon. Furthermore, there have been leaked copies of pre-release builds of the unified service pack floating around on the web. As a …
Jan 10 2011
Windows 7 Tip – The Case of the Missing Run Box
If you are an old hand with Windows like myself you may have become accustomed to using the old “Run box” found by click on “Start” and then “Run” since Windows 95. However, with Windows Vista and Windows 7 it disappeared from the Start Menu in favour of getting people to use the newly included …
Jan 09 2011
Spot Interesting Software License Agreement Clauses with EULAlyzer
- By Boydo in Consumer Rights, Copyright, Legal, Privacy, Technology
Just a quick tip for tonight. Looking at those end user license agreements (or EULAs) every time you install a new piece of software can be very time consuming exercise. Of course, EULAs are there for a reason but the fact that they can run into thousands of words in length its not surprising that …
Jan 03 2011
Evernote – Cross-Platform Notes in the Cloud
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Browsers, Cloud, Firefox, Google, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, WebOS, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Some people, such as myself, are not entirely and completed wedded to a single content and device ecosystem in that I have the Samsung Galaxy S as my mobile phone (an Android device for those unfamiliar with it), a Windows 7 custom built desktop at home, a Windows 7 MSI Wind netbook and an Apple …
Jan 02 2011
FTP and the Difference Between ASCII and Binary Modes
- By Boydo in Communications, FTP, Java, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Technology
Edit: Thanks to Brian Layman for picking up some horrible errors on my part on the below 🙂 A slightly more technical article for today. For those of you who use FTP every now and then along with FTP client software such as FileZilla or the command line FTP utility that comes with Windows you …
Dec 27 2010
Increase Your Browsing Real Estate on Small Screens
- By Boydo in Browsers, Display, Imaging, Interfaces, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Video, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Some of us have netbooks or smaller laptops with ten to twelve inch screens that we take with us to travel light whilst still having access to a fairly functional computer. However, in doing so, we sacrifice the luxury of a larger screen which can make a big difference when attempting to do heavy multitasking …
Dec 15 2010
Sleep and Hibernation Modes – What’s the Difference?
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Power, Technology, Windows 95, Windows Phone 7, Windows Vista
Over the years the humble shut down menu in Windows has been home to a number of options since it appeared back in Windows 95. If you can cast your mind back fifteen years, the usual suspects in the menu were: Shut down the computer Restart the computer Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode Close …
Nov 12 2010
BlackSheep – Detect FireSheep on an Unsecured Wi-Fi Network
- By Boydo in Blogging, Browsers, Communications, Connectivity, Facebook, Firefox, Linux, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Secure, Social Networking, SSL, Technology, Twitter, VPN, Wi-Fi, Wireless, WPA2
Last week, I wrote about FireSheep, a newly released add-on for Firefox, allowed everyone including amateur hackers and snoopers the ability to not only identify individual social networking sessions currently in progress but also the ability to impersonate those people. This was made possible by intercepting cookies being broadcast in the clear (i.e. completely unencrypted) …
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