Windows Mobile is not known for being either pretty or exceptionally user friendly, and the apps have been repeatedly put to shame by iPhone and Android software. WinMo users were waiting with baited breath for the launch of the Windows Mobile applications store (Skymarket), but initial offerings were largely disappointing and often grossly overpriced. Hope springs eternal, however, and TouchTwit, the newest Twitter app on the block for Windows Mobile, leaves you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.
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So you’ve installed Windows 7, and have decided you want to repartition your disks. You could use Windows 7’s built-in disk partitioning features, but what if that doesn’t work? That recently happened to me. Windows 7 refused to partition the disk, telling me ‘There is not enough free space on the disk to complete this operation,’ even though I had ample space on the disk. A Google search revealed this to be a common problem. I searched for and found an alternate solution.
You may think from the title that I am a bit less than enthused with Skymarket, the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile app store. You wouldn’t be wrong, either. This may come as something of a surprise to some of you, considering how much I have obviously been looking forward to the release of Skymarket, but my bitterness, and thus bitter message, is a direct result of keen disappointment.
You’ve heard the repeated warnings: "Backup!" You know you should do it. But are you? Are you backing up your computer’s data? And if you are backing up your data, is your backup solution reliable? Here are four steps you can take to provide yourself with a comprehensive backup solution, along with a few recommendations of products that I’ve been using. Using these tools together should also provide you with some redundancy, so that you can have piece of mind that you’re not putting all of your eggs in one basket.
Adobe AIR is a lightweight, multi-OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) platform for running rich internet applications (RIAs) on your desktop. While some have used it to simply recreate their webpage outside of the browser, most AIR apps are unique applications in their own right, often bringing new functionality that is not present in their browser counterparts. Adobe AIR caught on quickly with developers, and while it is not as outwardly robust as Silverlight or JavaFX, it does what is needed to bring cloud computing one step closer to the mainstream. There are a multitude of Adobe AIR applications floating about the web now — some good, some… not so much, but more than enough are of the of the former classification to make it worth your time to click the download link and install it. To help you get started, or to increase your current AIR arsenal, I’ve compiled a quick list of the top five Adobe AIR applications I can’t live with out: