The Bleeding Edge

Yesterday, I stepped into my office, sat down to my Dell T7500 workstation, and noticed that the machine had hung on boot. I had left it on, so the boot had been initiated during the night. The error message said: "No boot device found." I made a mental list of what might be … [Read more...]

I’ve never found Siri to be worth much other than for idle amusement. I always thought I was an outlier. Maybe not. I‘ve been seeing more and more pieces like this one. … [Read more...]

I've been using Windows 8 on a test machine for about three months, upgrading to the preview version when it came out about a month ago. When the preview version of Office 2013 was announced, I loaded that too. I've now reached some preliminary conclusions. Both the new … [Read more...]

I switched from Firefox to Chrome soon after Google introduced their browser. Chrome was clean, and Chrome was fast. Chrome is fast no longer. Partly, that's because fast is relative, and Firefox has gotten better. But a big change is that Chrome has gotten slower as it has … [Read more...]

Yesterday my scanning program hung converting a scanned document to a PDF. Suspicious, I tried to launch Acrobat X without success. I poked around on the web and found out that there’s a widespread problem with CS6: a month after activation, Acrobat sometimes stops working. I … [Read more...]