Please let it be aliens

Yes the podcasts I listen to are full of geeks and nerds. But where else can you hear things like the following:

Paul says, "please let it be aliens", to which Mary Jo replies, "even better Paul, there's a Windows Azure Data Market connection!"

http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/239

Paul Thurrott’s wakeup call to Microsoft

 

My favorite Microsoft pundit, Paul Thurrott, attempts to single-handedly put a hook in Microsoft's lip and drag them kicking and screaming into the present reality. If anyone can do it, he can..

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/Microsoft-s-iPad-Response-is-Too-Tepid-Too-Late.aspx

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/mobile-and-wireless2/Yes-I-Still-Love-Windows-Phone.aspx

Office 2007 - Service Pack 2 released

Office 2007 - Service Pack 2 released

Here's all the info:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953195

Along with a couple of my less-favorite features:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968773/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968918/

Update: ack forgot to credit Paul Thurrott!

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/04/28/now-available-microsoft-office-2007-service-pack-2.aspx

Windows 7 preview

http://activewin.com/reviews/previews/windows7/

This one is from ActiveWin, as linked by Paul Thurrott ( http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/10/28/live-from-pdc-2008-day-2.aspx ). There will be a lot of information about 7 coming out as a result of PDC, not to mention the buzz on "Azure" - Microsoft's final name for it's cloud computing platform, which sounds like it is transforming into just stuffing all of Microsoft's server products and standard api's into datacenters and letting you rent them. I found Mesh, a completely new paradigm for them, more interesting frankly.

Teracopy

So there are still a couple of things about Vista that drive me crazy. One I will note here, is that file operations still (post Sp1) SUCK! I can't copy large files fast. I can't copy a ton of small files fast. Operations involving copying a set of folders over another set of folders (typically I am getting rid of dupes by keeping the newest ones) just outright fail, over and over and over. Yuck!

Paul Thurrott has found something that might help us. Of course we hate to use an outside utility for something like this, but what choice do we have. Teracopy ( http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php ) as mentioned on the latest Windows Weekly podcast ( http://twit.tv/ww72 , http://www.winsupersite.com/paul/podcast.asp ). I will be trying it out (oh yes) and you can too.

Thurrott on MobileMe and alternatives

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/mobileme_01.asp

Paul Thurrott has done us all a favor and created another one of his comprehensive deconstructions, this time of MobileMe, the new online (cloud) companion (synch) service for the iPhone. The review has 4 parts, and link above is to the first. That should lead right into his newer series on alternatives that grew logically from the first series -

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/mg_clouds_01.asp

New (to me) source of IT Podcasts

I'm a huge fan of Leo Laporte's "suite" of tech podcasts (http://twit.tv), which I learned about when Paul Thurrott (http://winsupersite.com) starting doing one, and now Joel Spolsky (http://joelonsoftware.com/) has pointed me to another network of tech podcasts I was unaware of - IT Conversations (http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org).

Celio - the missing link part deaux

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/celio_redfly_preview.asp

http://www.celiocorp.com/

So this is the dumb screen and keyboard for Windows Mobile we were looking for last year, but a better version than Palm scrapped. Homerun!

Use an apple wifi router for Windows?

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=MzM4NzE&fnode=home&nplm=MB321LL/A

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/03/17/apple-adds-802-11n-to-airport-express.aspx

Paul points out that this might be a great tool for traveling given the size, price, and 11n.

CompUSA to close

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/97783/97783.html

The perfect PC for almost everyone these days

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7754614

A sub-$200 pc running Ubuntu with a lot of links to Google online apps. The future is here - perfect for everyone except gamers. I wouldn't be surprised if these flew off the shelves for Christmas - if not this year the next.. Thanks Paul!

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/11/02/pcs-break-the-200-barrier.aspx

Google mobile phone

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/10/29/wsj-expect-google-phone-announcement-within-in-two-weeks.aspx

The Google mobile phone headed our way.

Apple Leopard blue-screens

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/10/29/sometimes-hubris-comes-back-to-bite-you.aspx

Paul comments on some ironic behavior of the new Mac OS update.

SyncToy

http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.winsupersite.com%2Fblogs%2Fpaul%2Frss.aspx

Paul reports about a Windows PowerToy for sychronizing folders, especially in regards to digital photography.

Paul's digital media series

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/#dm
(look for the ones that say "core")

Video:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/dm_core_video.asp
Music :
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/dm_core_music.asp
Music Ripping:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/dm_core_music_rip.asp
Music Mgt:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/dm_core_music_mgmt.asp

Good stuff!