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Monday Window – June 29, 2020
Church Windows This week we walk up Peachtree Street in Atlanta and take a quick look at St. Mark United Methodist Church. This was in late summer four years ago, at about 5:30 in the afternoon. The shadows of the taller buildings across the street made for poor photography, although some folks didn’t seem to […]
Monday Window – June 22, 2020
A bit more of the Fox Last week we looked at the side of the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. Before we leave this gem, let’s look up at some of the windows and brick wall designs. Now we walk east on Ponce de Leon to see the shop windows along the lower “front” structures […]
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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
