Got a pair of computer glasses from a local optometrist. What’s so “computer” about these glasses? Well, they come with yellow tint to ease your eyes while looking at bright monitors. And the prescription that it came with will make whatever you see a slight bigger.

After a few hours of experiment, I approve this product to my fellow Computer Dudes. For less than $300 bucks, you can get one too!

http://www.gunnars.com

Some coworkers of mine left this on my desk as a Joke. This isn’t the 5¼ yo, this is the legendary 8 inch from the 1970′s. This vintage disk holds 175 Kilobytes of your precious data! About the size of a piece of your hair in a picture taken by modern digital cameras.

I surely knew nothing about this disk, because I wasn’t around when it was popular. I found the information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

I don’t think I’m the only person with this problem. I connect my Bluetooth mouse and keyboard with the Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card on my Dell Studio XPS 1645. The connection will drop every few minutes. It’s a pain in the neck to have to restart the input devices [sometimes the whole PC] to restore the connection. I’ve finally figured out the simple fix, which is disabling the power saving setting under device manager.

Feels great to get back with my Bluetooth mouse comparing to the standard 2.4GHz wireless. Especially the part where you don’t need to plugin a wireless receiver.

Windows only: If you want a little extra eye-candy in your Windows management, T3Desk is an alt-tab alternative that gives you 3D windows arrangement and more.

T3Desk works on all versions of Windows but it really shines in Vista and above where it can take advantage of Aero. After installing T3Desk you can use keyboard shortcuts to minimize and maximize windows to the edges of your monitor, arranging them in a pseudo-3D fashion. T3Desk can be tweaked in a variety of ways including how the windows are angled, animated, their level of transparency, the apparent distance from the viewer, and how they transition from the virtual desktop back into use.

You can drag windows and dock them to the four sides of the monitor, use Aero Peek to see which windows are on the virtual desktop, and set an always include/exclude list for applications to easily exclude applications from the effects of T3Desk.

via T3Desk Brings 3D Eye-Candy to Your Windows Desktop – Window Management – Lifehacker.

I got a new laptop from Dell. The Studio XPS 1645 featuring a powerful Core i7 processor with 4GB of DDR3 1333. Of course, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate that I received from the previous Microsoft event. Everything look and runs sweet. It came with a 9 Cell battery that last about 3 hours (Big screen, and that Quad-Core processor), I also picked up a 6 cell because I don’t need the bulkiness while using it at home.

Now I hope the price for SSD drives will drop soon…

I rec’d a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate by attending the “New Efficiency” conference last week. I’m planning to install it on my new laptop. As much as I love to have it’s 64bit version, the one I got is 32bit. I’m gonna wait till someone releases the 64bit ISO and activate it with my key.

Microsoft did a great job on this release, it is the best version of Windows I’ve ever used. During the conference, I’ve learned a lot of new features, though they have to be implemented on the Server 2008 and IPV6 architecture. A lot of works to be done in the coming years for the IT team!

When a user connects to Windows XP desktops through Terminal Service {RDP, Citrix Xen}. By default, they are able to disconnect from the desktop. By disconnect, the terminal session remains open on the terminal host. This issue is driving me nuts at work, because when users try to connect again, Xen DDC doesn’t seem to deliver their last (opened) session. Instead, it trys to give them a new one.

It makes me want to cry, because we’ve specifically told users to log off instead of disconnect.

Sure, there are a few group policies you can modify to kill disconnected sessions. But I want to let users know, I don’t want them to disconnect! Period…

Disable the Disconnect button should do it, this policy is under Administrative Template > Windows Component > Terminal Services. It can be applied in the Group Policy on the VHD itself, or through the GPO on your domain controller. Enough said… I hate id10t users.