If you’ve tried to run Win 7 with all the bells and whistles in an OSX environment, you’ve undoubtedly come up against a few problems. Have no fear VMware is here. Fusion 3 has some fantastic updates that will allow you to run Win 7 64 bit with Areo and Flip 3-D.
Fusion 3 has a [...]
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VM Fusion Brings OSX and Win 7 Together
Hot Key Haven for Windows 7
A fairly complete list of hot keys for Win 7:
Basic Shortcuts
F1
Display Help
Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Insert)
Copy the selected item
Ctrl+X
Cut the selected item
Ctrl+V (or Shift+Insert)
Paste the selected item
Ctrl+Z
Undo an action
Ctrl+Y
Redo an action
Delete (or Ctrl+D)
Delete the selected item and move it to the Recycle Bin
Shift+Delete
Delete the selected item without moving it to the Recycle Bin first
F2
Rename the selected item
Ctrl+Right [...]
Happy Patch Tuesday
Today is Patch Tuesday. This is the day when Microsoft updates and patches all the errors and vulnerabilities that have been found in the recent past. This week the geeks at Microsoft address 34 security problems within 13 updates. Eight of these will be labeled critical.
Of those, two very serious issues are being addressed. The [...]
Wanna Go Phishing?
The BBC has reported that Windows Hotmail has been hacked and an upwards of tens of thousands of accounts have fallen victim to a phishing scam. For those of you who don’t know what phishing is, it is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit [...]
Windows 7 not affected by Zero-Day Flaw
Microsoft is reporting that a Zero-Day Flaw does affect Vista but does not affect Windows 7. The Zero-Day Flaw in this case is a vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) implementation. Researcher Laurent Gaffie stated that the flaw lies in the SMB2 driver in which the “SRV2.SYS fails to handle malformed SMB headers for [...]
Microsoft: IIS Flaw Found
Monday Microsoft hit us with yet another announcement of yet another Microsoft service that has been found to be vulnerable. IIS 5 ans IIS 6 File Transfer Protocol has not been attacked yet but has flaws allowing a possible attack. Code for attacking this weak spot have been posted on Milw0rm.org. Only older versions of [...]
Windows 7: Arrrr Matey!
As most of you know, Windows 7 is due to be released this October. This OS is being touted as Microsoft’s crowing achievement, their penance for the fiasco that was Vista. Many have opted to stay all these years with XP and I don’t really blame them. These XP fans are understandably hesitant to make [...]
Bill Gates put Feynman Lectures online
Bill Gates has put the 1964 Messenger Series online on Microsoft’s Project Tuva. Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was famous for not only his critical thinking in physics, but also his jovial, if not boisterous, sense of humor. Feynman received a Bachelors in physics from MIT and then went on to Princeton to receive his doctorate. Someone [...]
Windows 7 May be Offered on a USB Drive
Netbooks are one of the biggest things on the market today. Most of these do not include optical drives. CNET got the low down from a source within Microsoft stating that there is the possibility that Windows 7 may be released on a USB flash drive.
Though Microsoft has at this time no official stance, but [...]
HTML Pt. 3: Create a Website
What do I need?
Most likely you already have everything you need.
You have a “browser”. A browser is the program that makes it possible to browse and open websites. Right now you are looking at this page in your browser.
It is not important which browser you use. The most common is Microsoft Internet Explorer. But [...]

