Archive for the 'Operating Systems' Category

Dec 15 2009

Tethering with the HTC Hero

One of my complaints about the Android operating system is that none of the tethering options are simple. For the standard USB connect method your laptop or computer has to have the HTC Sync installed which until recently didn’t support Windows 7 and then you have to drill down into the phones settings and enable [...]

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Oct 25 2009

HTC Hero Review: From Windows Mobile to Android

As a user of Windows Mobile for almost nine years the thought of moving to a completely different environment is quite daunting. Windows Mobile is by no means perfect but the wide variety of applications and perfect Exchange integration have kept me as a user. With the second and third generation Android devices, Active [...]

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Jul 08 2009

Google Chrome as an Operating System? Google think so.

Published by Guy under Operating Systems, Software

We’ve loved Google Chrome for its speed, sure its missing a whole bucket load of features compared to Internet Explorer 8 and has no extensions like Mozilla’s Firefox but its architecture and speed make it a lot appealing to me compared to the rest.
When Google announced Chrome, there was a fair amount of speculation that it [...]

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Jun 17 2009

Windows Home Server: Installation & First Impressions

Published by Guy under Hardware, Operating Systems

Well, finally after moving over 300 GB’s of data, fighting with two different RAID controllers and a failing CD-ROM, I managed to get the above mention product installed on my old Pentium 4 PC.
Installation was an interesting process to say the least, after discovering that my CD-ROM was failing I fitted a new one which [...]

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