Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

Get Around Attachment Size Limits — Update and Expansion
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Back in August, I wrote a post that rounded up some of the easiest methods for getting around email attachment size limits. Lots of people run into these limits when trying to send large files over email — especially from corporate, school, or ISP provided email accounts — and it can be hard to know [...]

Article: Windows Phone 7 Series
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

In an article for the Occidental Weekly, I look at Microsoft’s recently announced Windows Phone 7 Series, which does something unique — integrates Xbox Live into the cell phone. Here’s the article lead: As a generation, we are fixated on “converged devices” such as iPhones and Blackberries that not only function as cell phones but [...]

Article: New Negotiations May Change the Way We Search the Web
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

The rumors of a Bing-News Corporation exclusivity deal seem to have died down recently (with the holidays and then CES occupying everybody’s time), but now that I’m back I still want to post an article I wrote for the Occidental Weekly last month about the deal, and its ramifications (good and bad) for everybody who [...]

Article: Windows 7 takes PCs in a New and Improved Direction
Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Windows 7 has generated more buzz and hype than anything Microsoft has released in a long time. People are crazy excited about it, but does the product live up to the buzz? I give my impressions on Microsoft’s new OS in an article I wrote in this week’s Occidental Weekly. Here’s the article lead: Yesterday, [...]