October 17th, 2010

NASA World Wind on Spoon.net

I recently received an email from Spoon asking if I had any objections to them putting NASA World Wind on their site, they are teaming up with SourceForge to convert the best Windows apps on their service.

Spoon is a site which takes Windows programs and apps and uses a special app virtualization technique [...]

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March 19th, 2009

Windows 7 – Canon LiDE 35 installation fix

So I was fairly happy with Windows 7 except for one thing, my canon scanner would just not install, I tried Vista drivers, 64 and 32 bit versions, XP drivers, drivers that weren’t even for my scanner, I also tried all the tricks, compatibility mode, admin mode, manual installation, basically anything I could think of, [...]

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January 16th, 2009

World Wind and Windows 7

Well I just installed World Wind 1.4 onto Windows 7 beta and everything went amazingly easily, I wasn’t asked to update DirectX, or install either Managed DirectX or .Net, great ! After installation all I had to do was right click the desktop shortcut and select ‘run as administrator’ and World Wind popped up in [...]

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January 11th, 2009

Windows 7

First thoughts

Meh.

Ok Multiboot install was easy, no need to use cursor arrows on an ugly text based screen, just a simple GUI with mouse support, also nice is the ability to use an on screen keyboard and magnifier. Not so good is the time it takes to expand files, it stayed on 0% [...]

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