Ben Walters InfoPath MVP : VISTA RTM

Sidebar Gadgets Ahoy!

Ben Walters — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:08:42 GMT

Since the release of the Vista RTM there have been a couple of guys around the office who have put their mental muscle towards some sidebar gadget development.

Alex Burton created a nifty little gadget that monitors your current download quota, it's only limited to people who have Optus net as their ISP but still pretty cool. As I understand it between monitoring his downloads and work he's feverishly trying to get an updated version but until then this will have to do

Chris O'Connor created a cool little gadget that lists the top 10 stories from either The Age or Sydney Morning Herald, you can check out Chris's gadget here

Good work guys!

Cool Image burning tool for Vista

Ben Walters — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:39:46 GMT

Since upgrading to the RTM of Vista I've made one very key observation, the lack of support by major burning programs e.g. Nero.

Of course there are a lot of the everyday burning features built into Vista however one thing it did lack was the ability to burn ISO images to CD/DVD. Luckily I discovered this cool little tool called ISORecorder, The best thing about this little utility is that it installs as a power toy so burning an ISO image to disc is a simple as clicking the image file on your machine and selecting burn to disc. Plus it has the added advantage of allowing you to create your own ISO images.

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

My Vista RTM Upgrade

Ben Walters — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:05:09 GMT

As you may or may not know the RTM of Vista was released last Friday to both the MSDN Subscriber downloads and the Connect website. I was lucky enough to have my copy finish downloading on Saturday and set about getting my PC prepped for install.

Much like the Office 2007 install I have come through the process unscathed. I started the rebuild at around 8:30pm on Sunday and by 9:30 I had my machine up and running with all its vista goodness.

The only issue I have found however is that when I attempted to hibernate my machine rather than powering off it decided to reboot, which wouldn't bother me too much except I did experience this behaviour with my work laptop running Vista RC2 and I was hoping it had been fixed in the RTM. Hopefully I've just missed a check box somewhere but I'll keep you posted.

Other than that my Vista upgrade experience was good, I'm up and running and without any major issues.

VISTA RTM is Here !!!!!!

Ben Walters — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:24:07 GMT

My Good friend Tim Wragg just informed me that the Windows Vista RTM has been released, good news for everyone who has been beta testing as well as you can download a copy of the RTM from the Connect website.

Naturally I've logged into my home PC and kicked off the download. With any luck it should be complete by tomorrow some time. I'll keep you posted on how the setup goes