Gordon's Tech

Back in 2010 I wrote  Gordon’s Tech: Escape from Outlook Notes - ResophNotes, Simplenote for iPhone and Notational Velocity . Seven years l...

I don’t use iCloud for much - Apple’s cloud functionality is almost as lacking as its reliability. Our family has used Google Calendar for 7...

There are a lot of software domains that disappoint me. It's a 'get off my lawn' kind of thing. Enormous excitement about cosmet...

Windows is a broken and barren desert of malware and spyware, but I still need to work in it. Alas, I can't switch at work (yet). So,...

iCloud support is limited to relatively new Macs able to at least run Lion. Practically speaking, Mountain Lion. Apple is kinder to the Wi...

Windows XP full-text search was a back-ported version of Windows 7 search. It was a regression from Lookout (Microsoft Acquired)  but an imp...

I don't think this is a common problem, but unanswered questions found in  my failed Windows 7 searches  suggest it's not rare. I ra...

The letter S is next to the letter D - on my keyboard anyway. That means when my lifelong q10sec Ctrl-S twitch hits, there's a 1/200 cha...

This option is, for now, only open to the few people who have MobileMe accounts. Maybe iCloud will add something like this. I'll pass it...

My corporate Win 7.64 box had a printing problem. Everything looked fine, but jobs sent to some printers didn't appear. I was also seein...

Based on a long history of problems with copying GBs of data over the LAN, I decided to move my data from a corporate XP box to a Win 7 box...

This is a narrowcast post. It's of interest to someone who ... Is a serious geek. Has to routinely find things in very large document ...

It's times like this that I really miss Byte (or BYTE?) magazine. They would have had great coverage of VMWare VMs - how they work, an...

I've been using Retrospect Professional 8 to backup a Windows 7 machine. That machine has VMware VM running. There have been no backup e...

Between Dell machines shipping with motherboard disconnected SATA cables, a Clampi Trojan on my Windows 2003 server , a mysteriously vanishe...

One of my work machines now runs Win 7. It’s the first time I’ve had to do more than play with it. It helps to know OS X, but it also hurt...

First Stack Overflow came for the coders . Then they came for the Sysops . Now the dynamic duo of “ Joel on Software ” Spolsky and “ Coding ...

I have sinned , but I have seen the light . Now that I've joined the Church of the disposable image, I need to catch up on some basics. ...