There are some excellent features in Vista that will excite the photographic users among us. Check out Barb Bowman’s article to find out what they are and how you can use them to manage your digital image collections more easily and more powerfully than ever before using Windows Vista.
Tag: Vista
Rev Vista with ReadyBoost
ReadyBoost is a new feature in Vista which allows the user to accelerate the performance of the PC simply by inserting a USB Flash Disk/Pen/Dongle/Widget. It uses the fast flash memory instead of paging files back to the sluggish hard disk which greatly speeds up the operating system. I’ve just been reading a great Q&A…
Vista Backup – no good?
Jon Hicks over at the Vista Magazine has been slating the usability and features of Vista’s backup application. I can see his point with some of the stuff – like the restore usability, but he doesn’t mention Vista’s new CompletePC backup which is really really cool. It basically allows you to take a Virtual PC snapshot…
The Kernal’s secret recipe
Ever wondered what a Kernal is and why its so critical to the operating system? Scott Field who is an architect on the Windows Kernal Security has written an excellent post which puts it all in plain English – a challenging task in itself!! He talks about the kernal itself and how Windows protects it…
Vista – photo friendly
There’s a great post over at the Microsoft Photography Blog which describes how Vista manages your photos – in particular how you make changes and edits to your photos. You know, when you rotate, fix red eye, resize & crop – that kind of stuff. Basically, Vista saves a copy of your original photo upon…
New Slideshows in Vista
The slideshows have been spruced up in Vista with different styles and types to enjoy your favourite snaps. Furthermore, you can also view videos and photos in the same slideshow – something that wasn’t possible in Windows XP. To run the slideshows you need to have a hardware rating of 3.0. To check your…
Vista Release Candidate 1 – RC1
The Vista team has posted some information on their blog about the availability of RC1. http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/08/10/445959.aspx
Speech Recognition Demo
I found a really cool video which demonstrates how to control Windows and even play solitaire using speech recognition! Dailymotion blogged video This demo is courtesy of http://www.istartedsomething.com/
Vista Hacked
Following on from Matt’s post about Microsoft’s involvement at the Black Hat Security conference, I was interested to read elsewhere that while we were touting the security of Vista, in another room someone else was explaining how they exploited a vulnerability in the operating system and was able to run some malicious code. My first…
The all new and improved Vista Event Log
The event log is something I remember fondly from my coding days as a great way of recording exceptions in applications that I created. Of course, exceptions in my code were few and far between, but if by chance, something did fail or fall over, I could quickly figure out what went wrong by consulting…