Posts Tagged ‘windows

I like what Lenovo is thinking with their IdeaPad U1 hybrid notebook. Full power notebook, Win7, detachable screen becomes self-sufficient tablet with 8 hour battery life running minimal OS. Zack Whittaker has a nice rundown of this and the Lenovo Skylight over at ZDNet.

A few weeks ago my Parallels stopped working.  I’d launch the app and immediately be told it was not responding and to force quit.  I restored Parallels (files, prefs, .hdd) from backup, but no dice.  I had been unhappy with Parallels for a while – it was a resource hog, starting the VM and booting [...]

Not a single XBox owner in the crowd. Silverlight, Micrsoft’s media delivery platform now used by Netflix, is a win for both Macs and PCs. Macs, you can now Watch Instantly.  Welcome to the club.  High-fives from the PCs. Windows users, things just got better.  The annoying media acquisition & digital rights prompts are gone.  [...]

Two PDF Tools

In: Geek Finds

23 Oct 2008

1) DoPDF for Windows | There are lots of PDF writers/printers available for Windows – CutePDF, PrimoPDF are some I’ve used before.  This week LifeHacker mentioned doPDF and I quickly adopted.  The installation is quick and the interface is very simple.  Mac users have easily been able to print to PDF for a while and [...]

Is this a Dell?

In: Good Stuff

20 Oct 2008

Wow, Dell has come out with a small desktop computer that looks pretty decent! It’s called the Dell Studio Hybrid, though I’m not sure what it is a hybrid of, it’s still got some respectable features. I should say that we’ve been using the Apple Mac Mini in our Deli offices, where space it extremely [...]

Engadget has a post about rumors having been confirmed of Microsoft once again extending the ability to legitimately downgrade Vista to XP. Which is what we’ve been doing. And is a good thing. ‘Cause we can’t find a good reason to move to Vista.

I have not run a screensaver in years. Usually I just set my LCD to go off after 30 minutes of inactivity. But that’s changed. I’m hooked on a really cool screensaver that makes beautiful ever-changing images Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver created by Scott Draves. It’s run by thousands of [...]

We use Microsoft’s Terminal Services to bring windows-only software to our Apple laptops. Works great. Even works great to bring apps to Windows machines. Recently we heard about the opposite – terminal services for Mac from aquaconnect.net. At first we tried to wrap our brains around how to use it but I think we’re going [...]


About this blog

The ZSN-IT site is a central place for the IT department to share the more fun and interesting aspects of our work with our clients and everyone else. This includes links to interesting tech solutions, stories about incidents, food notes, techtips, fitness counters, and whatever else we find interesting.

Photostream

    IMG_9034IMG_9030IMG_9029IMG_9025IMG_9018IMG_9012
  • Annette: Hilarious! I love it!!!!! [...]
  • Pattie S: YUM!! [...]
  • Jackie: Proof that nonstop creativity and fun oozes out of the pores of Zing peeps! I'll bet that even the d [...]
  • Donald: I've a campfire Cappucino rig! A mokapot for brewing the espresso, and a boiler with steam wand for [...]
  • Billie: Hi Elizabeth! You can order great gifts of food and have them shipped all over the country! Note tha [...]

Search our Store



We have shirts too!