Author Archives: quikboy
What I’d love to see in the next Xbox
Although the Xbox reveal is coming today, I thought I’d share my thoughts to anyone that still happens to read this blog (despite my not finishing many drafts of things I’d love to talk about). I don’t have a super … Continue reading
So much for IE9’s tab recovery
IE9 claims to have tab recovery features yet in my personal experience, 9 times out of 10, the tab recovery feature does NOT work. My HP Pavilion 363-2000 NR machine loves to conk out as soon as I move the … Continue reading
Windows Phone still fails at retail–wholesale clubs
These are just observations I made myself, but it is really hard to find decent Windows Phones at retail, when it comes to wholesale clubs like Costco and Sam’s Club for example. Now not everybody buys their phones at wholesale … Continue reading
If only IE could recover webpages after a computer crash
Sometimes my terrible HP 2000-363NR will have a system crash if I jerk the computer too fast in the process of moving it somewhere else. I usually use both Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 11.0. When I restart my system, … Continue reading
Will the Start Screen be Windows Gadgets all over again?
Remember when Windows Gadgets were introduced in Windows Vista? It was supposed to be the cool little widget engine for Windows that was meant to compete with the likes of the OS X Dashboard or Yahoo!’s Konfabulator. However, it rarely … Continue reading
Microsoft Academic Search replaces Bing Academic
I just stumbled upon this recently while searching grants, but Microsoft has a ‘new’ replacement for Bing Academic. Well maybe it’s not so new, at least as of August 2011. No blogs that I follow (like LiveSide) seem to have … Continue reading
Windows 8 CP: To touch or not to touch?
Disclaimer: I have not touched any build of Windows 8. Judgment is based on screenshots, videos, many articles on Windows 8 CP. With the news of Windows 8 Consumer Preview finally passing, there’s been a lot of negative concerns about … Continue reading
Sneak peak at Bing’s new search results UI
Lately, several people have been capturing glimpses at the new Bing search results UI, and I have to say it’s pretty good. It’s very sporadic as to how often this look is showing up, but I’m guessing the Bing team … Continue reading
Microsoft should make a dumbphone OS
Smartphones are all the rage these days, but what about the underestimated dumbphone market? By the way, when I say ‘dumbphone’ I’m referring to general cellphones that aren’t classified as ‘smartphones’. The quasi-official classification is really ‘feature phone’ but ‘dumbphone’ … Continue reading
Why the Microsoft Kin failed
I know this is rather late, but I though I had previous typed this up before, but couldn’t locate it on WordPress. So here it is. The Kin failed because of poor research into what the market wanted, especially baseline … Continue reading
