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New utility for dealing with off-screen apps - Front And Center!
From time to time I find myself faced with a really annoying problem - a Windows application that has positioned itself offscreen. This usually happens for one of two reasons: A bug in the software. Sometimes things go terribly wrong, and the application...

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 12:07 PM by kevindente | 18 comment(s)

Altiris SVS - a new kind of virtualization
Now THIS looks interesting. A company called Altiris has released a product called Altiris SVS (Software Virtualization Solution ). It’s officially version 2.0, though I never heard about version 1.0. In a nutshell, SVS lets you install applications in...

Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 11:48 PM by kevindente | 1 comment(s)

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Running Windows on a MacBook - forgetting something?
A common meme going around the blogosphere right now is "my next Windows laptop will be a MacBook". Although I understand the sentiment - they do make very nice laptop hardware - I wonder if these people have noticed something rather important (at least...

Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:16 AM by kevindente | 27 comment(s)

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Free and easy way to resize an NTFS partition
I recently had the need to resize the virtual disk on the VMWare image. VMWare includes a handy tool for resizing a virtual disk, but of course that doesn't resize the partition on the disk. Partition Magic has long been the tool of choice for this kind...

Posted Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:49 PM by kevindente | 12 comment(s)

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