Mike Dimmick's Bleurgh

I’m a bit slow in answering questions from the contact box. A couple of months ago, a commenter asked how the MC3000 application for New Loo...

In my last post I said Microsoft would be releasing some official information on a topic that had caused plenty of FUD on forums. They have...

Conspiracy theorists: if you want to know why Microsoft are doing something, try asking them. I recently saw some information on forums that...

As I’m sure you’ve already seen, Windows Vista beta 1 was released about a week ago. This means I’m thinking about resurrecting my Changes t...

I finally decided I needed more desktop space: both computer desktop, and the real desktop my monitor sits on – and this computer sits under...

Good story today on The Daily WTF . The reason I posted this, though, was this fantastic comment: “It's like he tried to reinvent the w...

Following Ian 's example, I've added the No2ID PledgeBank petition flair to this site. It looks like this: The counter updates with...

I’ve had 24 copies of the I-Worm/Mytob.HI worm since 1am today. Either they’re sending to spam lists or there’s a lot of infections out ther...

From Paul Thurrott : a link to Java Rants, “ Will partnering with Intel give Apple a Mac faster than a PC? ” No. Let me expand. The theory g...

Want to keep your right, as a UK citizen[*], to privacy? Sign up for the No2ID pledge here . Via Ian . [*]Not a subject, dammit. I do not re...

Or at least, in the ‘My Pictures’ folder in Windows XP Explorer. Try it yourself – ensure the watermark is enabled. Then right click and sel...

I downloaded the Compact Framework 2.0 Redistributable yesterday as well, planning to do a little testing with one of our CF 1.0 apps. (I n...

Brad Abrams: Take the .NET Framework 2.0 Compatibility Challenge . I was at a slightly loose end yesterday afternoon, so I took advantage of...

How  long have we been waiting for Blizzard ’s StarCraft: Ghost ? I can’t recall – I think they first announced it in 2001 . This week at E3...

Xbox Backwards Compatibility Now that it's been announced at E3, I can finally reveal that the Xbox 360 feature I work on is... Xbox bac...

From Windows Mobile Platform Migration FAQ for Developers : Starting with Windows Mobile 5.0, only one instance of the installer (wceload.ex...

Today, Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 5.0 (codenamed ‘Magneto’). They’ve made two bone-headed decisions from a development perspective: ...

On the command line, that’s how. You must specify %1 in the command line somewhere, otherwise Explorer simply doesn’t do anything (it report...

One of the new features in Apple’s Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ is ‘Burn Folders’ – a folder which you can easily write to a CD by selecting the ‘Burn’ ...

Paul Thurrott: Tiger math 2: When a feature isn't a feature Apparently Apple are touting full-screen video playback as a new feature in ...