Monday, June 27, 2011

A month and a bit on

Well having bought the tablet for work I use it mostly for reading.

I am of mixed mind as to whether I bought the correct device or not. Windows 7 is good as it lets have me multiple applications open , but Windows 7 would really suck without a pointing device and I do find that it can be a pain to do stuff without the mouse buttons.

The iPad content model is I think a great model for everyone to emulate. Provide a means by which anyone can put create an app for the great unwashed and then give a portion of the payment to the author, would be neat if the author got the lions share.

Not aware of much in the way of tablet apps for Windows 7 but maybe its out there, I have not really been looking. Have been impressed by some reviews for some ipad stuff but sadly no good for my tablet.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

more on viruses

I had thought I had purchased a licence for AVG, turned out I had purchased a download program that allowed me to download AVG, now if I want to license AVG I need to pay them.

It obviously pays to read the text that goes with the Download button. Or rather you pay if you don't.

So, anyway went to connect my tablet to my PC with synergy and I could no longer see my PC, dicked around for a while trying to find where I could enter set IPs to be allowed, but ultimately gave up and decided to de-install AVG and go elsewhere.

Decided to go with the Microsoft freebie, Microsoft Security Essentials, its free and a co-worker said that its very good.

Microsoft Security Essentials is now installed, thank you Mr Gates !

http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/security_essentials/default.aspx

I can see my shared drives again, yay !

Saturday, June 4, 2011

mouse

Why would a tablet want a mouse, because its windows. I don't much like the little rubber thingy in the keyboard so I got a bluetooth mouse from ebay for a few dollars. Luckily it was cheap as i have not managed to get it to work yet.

So for the moment am just using an old USB mouse or my desktop mouse if I have synergy running.

Virus and such

Well I connected to the internet and 2 seconds later had some rotten malware that was hijacking links on my browser to weird and wonderful pages, basically you click on a link and end up somewhere other than where you wanted to go. If you copied the link and pasted into the address bar it worked fine.

Used Norton Power Editor from safe mode to clobber that ( I hope ) and then forked out $26 for a license for AVG.

There needs to be a wall that we could line up all the malicious bastards who create these, trojans, malware, virus and adware, against which they could be shot. Or, if we could find a nice empty someplace,somewhere we could send them there, the moon perhaps. Call it New Botany Bay and reintroduce flogging.