Just spent about half an hour trying to get Adobe Reader to install on my new work laptop. It would launch fine, the process clearly alive in task manager, but nothing beyond that–it would just hang. Then I finally found this article. It turns out you need to (not sure in what cases, but I [...]

When I first got my MacBook Pro (which I honestly now rarely use–maybe I should sell it?), I ended up using FireFox as my primary browser. The feature I really loved the most and missed whenever working on Windows was its inline search/find feature whenever you hit the equivalent of Ctrl-F on the Mac. Instead [...]

Recently, a couple of new Vista Sidebar Gadgets came out from the Windows Live side: a search gadget and a traffic gadget. They’re really well done and useful.
The Windows Live Search gadget by default is a general search utility but it has a few options that allow you to configure it as a search engine [...]