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...
Mar 2, 2009
While researching home studio recording options, I happened across a suite of tools that comes all neatly packaged in a custom Linux distribution: 64 Studio. While I am of the belief that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution, 64 Studio provides a very comprehensive suite of home studio tools that should be more than adequate for most purposes...
Jan 26, 2009
I’d heard that, as a default feature, the public beta release of Windows 7 supported the loading and editing of files saved in the docx format, so I thought I would give that a go. In order to perform this evaluation, I took a couple of existing Word documents that I had, and I let Microsoft Word save them as docx, and then loaded them into Windows 7. In...
Jan 13, 2009
One of the newer but lesser known features in Windows Vista was the Snipping Tool. This tool is continued in Windows 7, and it provides you with a simple means of capturing an image of a portion of your system’s screen, which might be needed for you to include in a document you’re preparing, for support of an application that you’re using, or...