On Windows

While listening to the latest installment of RunAs Radio , I just rediscovered a slick little utility over the weekend called FSUtil.exe that lives on your Windows machine. Sometimes I have to build a web form that includes a file upload behavior or I’ll want to test the data transfer speed with a specific file size. The FSUtil.exe program can create a file with an exact size super quick. The following command creates a file that’s exactly 1000 bytes long. I can make it as big as I like. Of course... Read More...

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Filed under: pop art, Windows

One major annoyance between the Mac and PC versions of Firefox 3 is the position of the “Done” button on the Add Bookmark dialog. On a Mac, the button is on the right. On a PC, it’s on the left. I won’t comment on which is better, just that the difference breaks my muscle memory and is driving me up the wall, and causing me to lose bookmarks that I think I’ve saved. The only saving grace here is that “Done” is the default action on both, so what I really... Read More...

Dave Shea pointed out back in August that IE7 will ship with ClearType enabled , even on XP! Read More...

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Filed under: cleartype, ie7, microsoft, windows, xp