Jul 7, 2010

The Austalian Tax Office’s excellent e-Tax software, available now for the PC platform for about ten years or so, is still not available for that ever increasing group in the population that chooses to use a platform other than Windows, Computerworld Australia reported earlier this week. In that article, James Hutchinson mentioned that the ATO was...

Nov 19, 2009

Ever since installing the Windows 7 RTM build, I have been unable to have that system automatically log on to an assigned mapped drive on my MacBook. Until now. The basic concept is that from Windows Explorer, you want to map a networked drive, and retain that mapped network drive so that it is persistent through multiple reboots and logins to that system. The...

Nov 17, 2009

In this article, I told about how I was setting up a computer for my mom. She had never used a computer before, and is now in her 80s. In starting to teach her how to use the computer, I noticed that the concept of double-clicking was not something that she was comfortable with, and so I looked for alternative solutions, the obvious one being that of just...

Oct 9, 2009

One of the primary issues that I found when running my first installation of Windows 7 RTM was a very serious problem with the sound drivers for the embedded sound card on my Gigabyte motherboard. While I certainly had sound, in many areas it was simply unusable. This manifested itself in that, when using a microphone, there was a significant (maybe a quarter-...

Sep 24, 2009

Here at the Gadget Grill we have a computer or two. Or three or four or … yes, a more than ample sufficiency, truth be told. And of course, we felt a need to upgrade at least a couple of these to the all new, bright and shiny Windows 7, and so this has now been accomplished… but not without a little bit of pain. Both of the systems that we wanted to...

Mar 19, 2009

For those of us who have avoided Vista there will be a large number of changes as we move into and learn Windows 7. Amongst those changes, you will find that Windows Explorer’s look and feel has totally changed. Much of that is supposed to be good, but of course any such goodness is probably for each of us to decide. One thing that I found frustrating was...