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Turning off the SNB Newsletter 27 May 2010 | 04:35 am
It’s been over a year since I’ve sent anything to the Scot’s Newsletter notification list. Recently, my list provider’s subscription tools stopped working and I was unable to get them fixed. Perhaps m...
Fast First Impressions of Windows 7 Gold 14 Sep 2009 | 04:43 am
I’ve got to eat a little crow on this one. When Windows 7 RC1 came out, I began to detect a trend I’ve seen with many other Windows development cycles — the layering on of bloat. RC1 was noticeably sl...
Scot’s Crazy Email Saga 14 Sep 2009 | 03:58 am
More in the ongoing saga of Scot’s ridiculous email situation. I’m using Entourage 2008 at work now, and with extensive use of AppleScripts, it comes as close to Eudora in power as I’ve been able to f...
Helpful thought for SNB notifications 14 Sep 2009 | 03:48 am
For those of you who miss the regularly occurring newsletter, this might be a bit of a help. Check out ChangeDetection.com. Use it to watch the blog site and you’ll get an email notification whenever ...
Mac A-List Updated 14 Sep 2009 | 03:47 am
Just a quick note to everyone know that I haven’t forgotten the blog, and I hope to post some more in-depth things in the near future. In the meantime, I’ve just updated the Mac A-List, which tracks ...
Scot’s Newsletter Blog Now on Kindle 23 May 2009 | 12:28 am
Last week I published this blog to Kindle. If you have a Kindle or an iPhone with the Kindle app installed, check it out: Scot’s Newsletter Blog (Kindle Edition). Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Ping.fm Redd...
Fast! Win7 RC1 in 32-bits on 2006 XP Hardware 10 May 2009 | 12:07 pm
A quick update to my ongoing Windows 7 RC1 performance assessment: It’s faster than Beta 1. It’s not just faster on high-end Vista hardware in 64-bits. I installed the 32-bit version of RC1 on my 64-b...
Surprise, Surprise: PC World Agrees on Win7 Performance 8 May 2009 | 12:46 am
Since Windows 7 Beta 1, I’ve written several times right here in this blog that Windows 7 is only marginally faster than Windows Vista. Finally, some independent lab-based testing from PC World that s...
Windows 7 RC1 Review: A Real-World Analysis 4 May 2009 | 02:24 am
I’ve been working with the Windows 7 RC1 (release candidate 1) for about a week and a half now. Barring unforeseen bugs, I doubt at this point that Microsoft is more than four months away from the rel...
Testing 64-bit Vista and Windows 7 9 Mar 2009 | 04:54 am
This story was significantly updated with added detail during the first 2.5 weeks after it was launched. Those additions did not fundamentally change the thrust of any of the original points I made. T...
