Archive for the ‘Microsoft Windows’ Category

Android apps on Windows

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?/topic/30954-how-to-install-android-30-honeycomb-or-23-gingerbread-on-windows/

http://androidandme.com/2009/10/news/how-to-install-android-sdk-and-play-with-android-2-0-in-the-emulator/

Screen grab – Microsoft Windows 7

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

How to grab a portion of the screen and save as an image file in Windows Seven

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Use-Snipping-Tool-to-capture-screen-shots

Windows – Font installation

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeInstall.mspx

Microsoft VPN access using Ubuntu

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

http://geekyprojects.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-vpn-connection/

http://geekyprojects.com/tutorials/how-to-use-the-real-windows-remote-destop-in-ubuntu/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNClient

Disk drive formats and Operating systems

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

(How disk drive formats work with different operating systems…)

Particularly handy for getting OSX and Windows drives to communicate

FAT32

  • Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
  • No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

HFS

  • Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
  • To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
  • To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer