http://www.systemcomic.com/2011/08/03/so-youre-mad-about-something-on-the-internet/ A great way to diffuse a raging Internet troll.

For the last few weeks, the poor IT team have been battling spam bots. Let’s give a shout out to all our hard working moderators who have been able to clean it up quickly and the IT team that’s been making it harder for them to do it.

Playing around with that this evening.  Trying to migrate from my 2010 Mac Pro. Taking a lot longer than I’d like. I also have a ThinkPad X1-carbon on the way. I’ll let you know how that goes when I get it.

I'm impressed. I can blog to the stardock ecosystem with the iPhone app Blog Writer. I just use my forum user Id and pw with the metaweblog URL: https://www.joeuser.com/api/MetaWeblog.axd

If you have Windows 8 and you’re finding it annoying to get around the desktop, you can download Tiles (it’s free). This has been a life saver for me as it lets me quickly get to the things I want to and manage them as such. It’s also completely compatible with the charms bar and the Metro (Modern UI) experience.  

  Freshly installed over my Windows 7 system.  Normally I would do a full rebuild but most people who are upgrading aren’t going to do that. Remembering the experience formerly known as Metro: First Impressions A lot of tools are now very difficult to find.  I can’t find the event viewer. Typing it in the search area brings up nothing.  In fact, uninstalling things is actually quite a pain because now you have to first go to control panel...

For those of you who have an MSDN subscription, Windows 8 (the RTM build) is now available.  Have you tried it? If so, what’s the verdict? I’ll have my thoughts later this week.

Let’s look at 3 web stats that tell us a little bit about the demographics of who visits us. First, we’ll use our homepage: Stardock.com. Then, we’ll look at our most popular game, SinsOfASolarEmpire.com And lastly, we’ll look at our most popular desktop utility, Fences. These stats are for the month of April, 2012. Who visit Stardock.com? By Browser: Firefox (34%), Chrome (32%), Internet Explorer (24%) By OS: Windows 7 (58%), XP (34%), Vista (6%) T...

I wrote awhile back how the death of Steve Jobs affected me . This is kind of an update on how things have progressed since then. Now, I don’t consider myself in the same league as Steve Jobs. I’ve been fortunate enough to meet some of the titans of our industry and their force of intellect has been humbling. Capability aside, certain types of people are motivated by very similar things. We all have our demons. In my case, I grew up with very little. I never felt I was good enou...

Object Desktop has evolved greatly over the past two decades. In its original OS/2 incarnation, it was designed to be a subtle, but important, upgrade to the OS.  When it migrated to Windows, it helped spark the “skinning” revolution where users used it to radically alter the look and feel of Windows. Here in 2012, Object Desktop has again begun returning to its roots of providing important but often subtle improvements. Let’s look at the above screenshot: ...

I’ve spent weeks trying to figure out why I was getting “Error downloading content” messages from Apple TV as well as aborted download attempts on my iPad and even my Mac and PCs. Eventually, after a lot of effort, I traced it to the IPS feature on my router.  Disabled that feature and all worked well.

I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since OS/2 2.0 shipped!  It certainly changed my life. To recap, here’s an article I wrote…for its 10th birthday .

In Windows 8, you can create a column of tiles in it and label the tile. This is Microsoft’s idea of a “group”. Here’s a couple of videos showing off the pain: Windows 7: The Start Menu   and… Windows 8: The Start “page”:   And a follow-up to show you about column headers (what Microsoft is calling groups):   Now, I’ve gotten a lot of email from people saying that I’m “obviously” a Microsoft hater or an ...

  Andrew Orlowski has a really good article about the the state of Windows 8.  Check it out here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/03/andrew_does_windows8/

  The lack of a start button and start menu in Windows 8 has made using Microsoft’s new OS a non-starter for me and a lot of other people.  I like Metro, I really do – for tablets. But as a desktop user, I need a consistent work flow that lets me have my windows together on my desktop and don’t want to be jerked out of that environment every time I want to start some new program. So here’s a free utility we put together that brings the Metro start menu onto the Windows ...