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Monday Window – September 23, 2019
Some Plain, some Fancy Monday Window is a weekly blog post featuring one or more photos of windows prominently or as the main subject. The posts are tagged “Monday Window” and are published every Monday. You are invited to join this challenge and post your “Monday Window” photos on your blog. Tag your post Monday […]
Monday Window – September 16, 2019
Cupola Windows One sees a lot of cupolas on businesses, houses, and other buildings. Nowadays these are mostly decorative additions. Once upon a time such structures were used to ventilate or bring light into the spaces underneath the roof. The windows are often “blind”, just made to look like windows from a distance. Monday Window […]
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Category Archives: Computer – general
AI Photo Interpreter
The computers are watching us! Drum roll please! Now for the latest from Microsoft Cognitive Services: CaptionBot – an online AI (artificial intelligence) thingie that looks at photos and tells what it sees – sort of supplying a caption for … Continue reading
Posted in Computer - general, Digital Photos, Microsoft, Photos
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, CaptionBot, digital photos
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Windows 8.1 – Start button
The Start button returns in Windows 8.1 With the Windows 8.1 Preview Microsoft returns the Start button – sort of. Down in the lower left corner, on the taskbar, is the new Windows logo. It does not have the nice … Continue reading
Posted in Computer - general, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Tagged boot to desktop, Start button, Start screen, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Preview
Installing Windows 8.1 Preview in a VMware Player virtual machine
Windows 8.1 Preview Microsoft has released Windows 8.1 Preview. Like other “previews”, this is prerelease software and is not intended as a normal upgrade. In fact, there are serious disadvantages to installing this preview in a regular Windows 8 PC: … Continue reading
Updating drivers for Windows 8
Windows 8 brings with it a set of drivers that might not provide the best performance. I had that happen when I installed Windows 8 on an ancient HP laptop. The native Windows 8 driver could not set the screen … Continue reading
Posted in Computer - general, Windows 8
Tagged drivers, update drivers, Windows 8
VMware Player 5 for Windows 8
Run Windows 8 on new VMware Player 5 VMware has released a new version of VMware Player with full Windows 8 support. Installing Windows 8 in a VMware Player virtual machine is now straightforward and quick. This version even received … Continue reading
Posted in Computer - general, Virtual Machine, VMware Player, Windows 8
Tagged virtual machine, VMware, VMware Player, Windows 8
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Windows 8 to install from Web and run on Windows XP hardware
When the Developer Preview of Windows 8 was released a while back I installed it on a number of machines. One of my tests was to perform an upgrade on a modest machine with Windows 7 Home Basic. The upgrade … Continue reading
Posted in Computer - general, Windows 8
Tagged install from web, upgrade, Windows 8, Windows XP
