Gordon's Tech

Microsoft AutoUpdate is painfully stupid. It makes my teeth hurt stupid. No matter what setting I use, even after I tell it to "just up...

When I migrated from Mojave to Monterey I ran into the typical array of macOS upgrade issues -- including having to reinstall Monterey. Ther...

I couldn't find out how to push an xbox game install to the console with Google searches. Here's what I learned on my own. Go to xbo...

I've used Appigo's ToDo app for about 12 years (with Toodledo at first). It's had problems over the years, but in general it'...

I don’t think anyone is terribly interested in this, so I’m not going to provide a lot of detail, but if you want to know more just email jg...

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

I like Office 365 Personal. The Mac version has bugs of course, but it seems to improve with each incremental release. For $70 a year I have...

Yes, I’m being cautious. In testing, however, I can do this: Create a folder that I can upload full resolution images to and ALSO make it...

I needed to use Microsoft Access . I know what you’re thinking. You’re wrong. Yes, Access is a horrible old patchwork beast, but for some k...

The sort order amnesia of Excel 2007 was one of the odder regressions in the history of Microsoft Office. After decades of remembering the l...

After a disastrous SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration [1] it was clearly time to replace my team's use of SharePoint wiki. The mangled c...

My business group has maintained a large SharePoint 2007 wiki. Recently we had to migrate to SP 2010. The wiki went along for the ride. ...

I received a notice to update my beloved Windows Live Write r* yesterday. I unthinkingly downloaded the installer. Fool. It was a Trojan Hor...

Twenty minutes before show time, my PowerPoint 2007 presentation (Sorry kittens ) was possessed. I tried adding a drawing item to an image a...

I've used VMWare 2 with Windows 2000 and Office 2003 on my MacBook for almost a year. I hardly ever use it, but it's compact and fa...

There’s an interesting story here about how Google makes us smarter, but I’ll try to post that one to Gordon’s Notes. This post is about sha...

I've revised this post. My first impressions were of Microsoft Office 2008 were very positive ... I'll put my Microsoft disgust up ...

I'm back using Access 2007 a year after I wrote about Microsoft Access 2007 reliability issues and suggested workarounds . In the interi...

No matter what I tried, I couldn’t get my XP machines to mount an iDisk using the WebDav protocol per Apple’s directions: Connecting to...

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