As yesterday was Windows 95′s 16 Birthday, I thought it might be fun to see how the worlds most popular Operating system has ‘matured’. I’ve included screens shots of the major releases from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 and included their system requirements for comparison. I think it’s fair to say it’s changed quite significantly!     Windows 1.0 Released November 1985 Requirements CGA/HGA/EGA Mono...

Wow ! Can you believe it? Windows 95 launched on this day in 1995. I remember it well – I was a bright-eyed university student working in PC World to earn my weekend beer money. We had had a couple of  ’secret’ training sessions on Windows 95 prior to launch by impressive and highly-excited MS people. They gave all us sales people cheap “I was there at the start” Windows 95 T-Shirts to wear and you know what I...

WTF? I’m going to guess you have already heard the news that HP has thrown in the towel on WebOS and is also looking for ‘solutions’ to get out of the PC market? If you haven’t heard, then I’m guessing you were on away on a bachelor week holiday or you’ve won the lottery and don’t care about anything anymore. For the rest of us, this is BIG news! The world biggest PC manufacturer is getting out of...

The Good One of the things I love about Apple’s new OS, LION, is the multi-touch gestures in Safari. A simple 2-finger swipe to the right – shows a sweet animation of the current page being moved to the right and the previous page appears below it.     The Bad The only problem is that the other browsers on my system (Firefox and Chrome) don’t support this great feature. I often find myself frantically swiping...

Hi All Ran into an issue today on one of the Macs where we could not install Xcode because it wanted us to close iTunes. The problem was iTunes was already quit and there was no way to force the Xcode installer to continue. Turns out the problem was a little process called iTuneshelper. To close this program and allow Xcode to complete do the following:           Open Applications -> Utilities -> Activity...

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OK, I admit it. I’m stupid! I don’t know how to use a trackpad! Let me explain: I’m really enjoying Lion and I’ve even got used to the reverse scrolling concept. The problem is my magic mouse. Don’t get me wrong the Magic mouse is a really great mouse (well it’s useless for changing weapons in a third-person shooter, but that’s not the point), the fact is it’s well balanced, comfortable to use...