Just when I thought the Office 2010 font wars were over, a new battle broke out. I got an e-mail with a Word attachment that crashed Word 2010. I brought it up in Word on a computer that had only the standard Windows 7 fonts installed, and saw that the predominant font was Times. I… [Read More]

Those of you who regularly read this blog know that I’m a heat seeker: somebody who gets involved in technology before it is well tested and debugged. I don’t do beta tests, but I’m usually near the front of the line for new versions of operating systems and applications. I try to do most of… [Read More]

It’s been a big month for messing with computers, and writing about computers. I’m anxious to get back to photography, and I promise to do so in my next post, but today I’d like to ramble on a little bit about the relationship of a photographer to technology. Photography has always been a technologically intensive… [Read More]

In the last month, I’ve been testing new versions of my main Windows apps. I’ve been working with the shipping version of Office 2010, which will be released to the general public next week. I’ve also tested the Photoshop, InDesign, and Dreamweaver components of Adobe Creative Suite 5. And, for the last day, I’ve been… [Read More]

In the past couple of weeks, I set up three workstations: a desktop running Windows 7, a Lenovo X201 laptop that came with Windows 7, and a Lenovo X300 laptop whose 64 GB solid state disk I had upgraded to 128 GB. The first two computers came with an OS installed; the disk upgrade on… [Read More]