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Get A Mac ads jump the shark
19 August 08 11:35 AM | Brandon Live!
These may have been kind of cute or clever in the past, misleading as they were.  But now they’re just plain obnoxious. When I bought my new car last year there was a car salesman at one dealership who only seemed concerned with what other...
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NYT article says we should throw away Windows
29 June 08 06:22 PM | Brandon Live!
A couple months ago I posted about an article by some guy at Business Week, that made all sorts of rubbish claims about Windows and OS X. Not to be outdone, Randall Stross at the NY times decided he could use some TechMeme love and wrote basically the...
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Windows Search 4 vs Vista built-in search
07 June 08 11:32 PM | Brandon Live!
When I first posted about the WS4 release on Neowin a few members had a response that I had never expected. Some examples: Windam - I wonder why this would be released for Vista since search is already a well integrated feature to begin with. Is it just...
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Windows Search 4.0 released!
03 June 08 05:16 PM | Brandon Live!
Windows Search 4.0 was released this afternoon.  This release focuses on performance and reliability improvements.  Here are some highlights: Faster queries, often several times faster Faster indexing / reduced resource usage Support for EFS...
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Getting the shell to run an application for you - Part 2: How
27 April 08 05:07 AM | Brandon Live!
The key to getting Explorer to do your dirty work lies in the IShellDispatch2 interface.  Particular, the ShellExecute method.  IShellDispatch2 is one of the shell automation objects used to support scripting languages.  However, that doesn’t...
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Getting the shell to run an application for you - Part 1: Why
26 April 08 08:39 PM | Brandon Live!
Some people seem to think that calling ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx and passing the path to an executable will have the effect of telling the shell to launch an application for you. However, that’s not quite what happens. These functions simply...
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Tech journalism is dead to me
11 April 08 08:38 PM | Brandon Live!
Gary Morgenthaler of Business Week is the latest in a series of tech journalists to really disappoint me.  Why?  Just look at his latest rubbish posted on Business Week’s website today. Consider the following paragraph and tell me that...
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Windows Search Indexer Status Gadget
09 April 08 11:10 PM | Brandon Live!
I’m pleased to announce that the second tool to join the BrandonTools.com collection is now available!  It’s a new Sidebar Gadget for those who want to see what the indexer is up to and to easily control its behavior. Click here for details...
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Joe Wilcox says Vista is failing (again)
01 April 08 02:00 AM | Brandon Live!
In this morning’s article, Windows: A Monopoly Shakes, Joe Wilcox paints a grim picture for Windows. Apparently, about 90% of surveyed enterprises adopted Windows XP in 2007, and about 6.3% adopted Vista, mainly taking away from Windows 2000 adoptions...
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Remote Search in Windows Search 4.0
29 March 08 07:56 PM | Brandon Live!
Following up on the Windows Search 4.0 Preview release, I will be writing several posts about some of the new features and changes enabled by this release.  One such feature, and this first one I will dive into here, is the capability to remotely...
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Windows Search 4.0 Preview release
27 March 08 09:21 PM | Brandon Live!
Today we made available the WS 4.0 preview release for Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003/2008. You can read details about WS 4.0 at the following sites: Vista Team Blog - Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview KB Article describing Windows Search...
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Don’t trust Trend Micro with your PC security
23 March 08 02:51 PM | Brandon Live!
I wouldn’t after seeing this. A Neowin forum member brought up what they believed was a conflict between UAC and Trend Micro Internet Security 2007. After some discussion about it, they received this e-mail from Trend Micro’s support team...
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FAQ: How do I disable indexing for most file extensions?
16 March 08 06:54 PM | Brandon Live!
The answer is simple:  you shouldn’t. I’ve been e-mailed this question a couple times now, and seen it on forums more times than that.  Sometimes the person asking the question says something like, “I only want to index my...
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Don’t write gadgets with Flash or Silverlight
11 March 08 01:51 PM | Brandon Live!
Because I, and millions of others, will not be able to use them.  That’s because we use 64-bit versions of Windows. You see, the Windows Sidebar uses Internet Explorer to host the HTML and script that make up a gadget.  On 64-bit versions...
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IE 8 Beta 1 is released
05 March 08 04:02 PM | Brandon Live!
I’m a huge fan of the great work the IE team is doing for this release. The first beta, targetted mainly at web developers, is now available. In addition to excellent standards support, it includes some cool new user-facing features like “Web...
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