Philipp Lenssen from the Google Blogoscoped blog does some iterations on the Google Mail userinterface while he investigates the question "What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?". He ends up with a userinterface which is very much like the hotmail I knew before I replaced it with my current gmail …

A few weeks ago, my Dad and my Brother both bought identical Windows Vista machines, at the same shop, at the same time. Although the hardware specs of these computers were terrific, the performance of Windows Vista was "moderate" to say the least. An even bigger problem was that some of the older XP programs …

If you've ever had the "pleasure" of configuring and sharing a printer between Windows machines, you probably know how tedious it is to get one machine to send a print job to the printer connected to another machine. And don't even get me started on how to do that on a Linux machine, or any mix of these two …

If you have large or many zipfiles in a folder, windows seems to lock up when opening the folder containing the zipfiles. This is because Windows is "smart" and decides to pre-scan the zipfiles and display them as folders. Installing free zip tools like zipgenius will not change this behaviour, although you …

When copy-pasting in Windows, sometimes the clipboard bar appears, and if you're really "lucky", it also pops up a waring, distracting you from your work. The clipboard holds only 12 items, and I have never met anyone who used more than one. There is no way to turn this irritating feature off, unless you want …

Thinking about switching to a Mac? I'd say go for it, but read this article first. It really sums it all up.

Hi, do you also think Windows Vista gets too much credit for stealing Apple's Mac OSX, a.k.a. Tiger? Here's a funny little movie on nytimes.com with proof that Windows is "not" an OSX ripoff. Very funny.

Just to share some frustration with you guys, I just spent 4 hours trying to update the Ati video drivers for my Mobility Radeon 9200 video card in my laptop from version 6.14 to 6.5. And all this just because Second Life crashes on my laptop every 3 minutes. The Ati installer just crashes because there is already an …