This post goes directly to Microsoft: ?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!  What are you thinking?!

Microsoft has officially announced it will be releasing FIVE versions of Windows 7:  Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate, and only Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional will be sold in retail.  Apparently this is to remove confusion caused by all the versions of Windows Vista.  They’ll be selling Home Premium to basic users, and Professional to businesses.

Microsoft, I think  the confusion came from having a billion versions of an operating system, and you’re doing it again?!  *Smacks forehead*

To top it off, the Windows 7 beta that 2.5 million or more of us are testing is Ultimate – but will only be offered as an upgrade.  This means we’ll be forced to buy Home Premium or Professional, and then pay even more for “Ultimate.”

Windows 7 Ultimate beta 7000 is nice, so why don’t you just sell what you’ve been having us beta test – and leave it at that!

Microsoft: this is blatant stupidity, and it’s moves like this that are going to make more and more people convert to OS X and become a “Mac.”

Hello, everybody!  It has been awhile, times have been busy with the holidays, but I’m ready to pick up and get back into the swing of things.

I JUST downloaded Windows 7 beta 7000 and installed it as a second operating system on my machine.  I know what you’re thinking “does it suck as much as Vista?”

Drum roll please….No!  In fact, I think Windows 7 will be a good solid upgrade from Windows Vista and even Windows XP, believe it or not!  There are a TON of new features and improvements from Windows Vista, and I will be sharing them with you!

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PLEASE NOTE – THIS FIX WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AT THIS URL AS WE ARE MOVING TO DAVIDCRANDALL.COM – HOWEVER, WE UNDERSTAND THIS PROBLEM HAS EFFECTED MANY PEOPLE AND WE WILL MAKE A PAGE DEDICATED TO THIS FIX

Hello everyone!  A common problem for Vista users with Dreamweaver MX is the “Insert>Tables” function; it simply will not work.  I have already posted two articles on this issue providing some fixes for the issue.  In the first article, I show how to make the “Insert Table” function actually do something and that is insert a table.  The only problem with THIS fix is that it doesn’t allow you to change the specs before the table is inserted into your Document.  The second fix is a tip given by a user, and another tip given by me which has worked for a decent ammount of people, but not all (for some it only worked temporarily, then the problem occured again.)  In this tutorial, I will be giving a new fix which will make the “Insert Tables” function work like a charm.

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I recently encountered a VERY random problem on my Vista machine.  I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary, my Windows Update settings were modified to not download or install updates without me doing so manually – which I hadn’t done in a long time, and I haven’t installed or modified anything.  But, for some reason, IE7 just decided to freeze when I opened it.  I restarted my computer, it still froze; I ran IExplorer with no add-ons, and it still froze.  I used Firefox to do some research and found alot of people have had this problem but no one had a definitive answer.  If running IE7 without add-ons didn’t work, people just gave up.  Well, I have a solution.

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It’s true – to stay safe on the internet, it is always good to have protection from malware, adware, and spyware.  These are annoying, and, quite often, dangerous.  So what do we do to stay protected?  We get programs like SpyBot Search & Destroy, or protection from McAfee and Norton.  We do a scan, the program finds  some problems, you go through the process, and at the end – it shows a few things that couldn’t be fixed, but can be removed.  It warns us that removing that file could potentially make some programs on the computer run improperly.  Without thinking, we delete those files.  The next thing we know, we’re booting up to nothing but a mouse cursor and a black screen.  What happened?  If you’re a Windows user, and this has happened to you – you should read this.

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If you’re a web designer, web host, deal with or are remotely interested in Domain Name Servers, then this should be of grave importance to you.

Recently, a huge threat to DNS, the system that translates IP Addresses to unique names (and vice verce), creating URLs such as funkytower.com, has been discovered.  This threat would allow malicious users to impersonate almost any website on the Internet. 

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Ever have photos that just don’t look right?  Maybe the color is off, or it’s a bit crooked, or it’s too dark or too bright.  Sure, you can use software like Photoshop to edit your photos, but software like this is far too expensive, and sometimes too complicated for the common person.  Luckily there is a solution: online photo editing.

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We all know the more memory, the faster CPU, the better motherboard, and the bigger hard drive you have will definately help boost the performance of any PC.  Now with Vista out and running, the standard ammount of RAM is 2Gigs…but unfortunately, not all of us can afford that.  Some of us even have decent hardware already, yet we tend to deal with and dread the slow performance of our PC’s, but why?

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It’s a fact, LCD monitors these days can be pretty expensive.  You can get a CRT monitor these days for about $40, while the average LCD monitor can be well over $200.  So, is it really worth the price to witch from CRT to LCD?

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