Hardware
Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro review
Review after six weeks with the Yoga 3 Pro 1370 hybrid tablet/laptop from Lenovo. Unique features, but with poor performance.
Microsoft Windows
Gaming
Don’t save game progress in My Documents!
Windows has long had a My Games folder, but many games insist on saving your game-progress to My Documents instead. Game developers, please stop it!
Privacy
Do you trust Microsoft with all your passwords?
Windows has become your password manager, but it also syncs all your credentials to Microsoft. Should you trust it with the keys to your digital kingdom?
Privacy
Multiple accounts required to keep Windows private and secure
You shouldn’t use a Windows Administrative account for your everyday use. Setup one basic and one admin account to increase security.
Microsoft Windows
Windows Live Tiles plug-in for Nikola
Set up your Nikola-powered static blog to work with the Windows Live Tiles feature using my new Nikola plugin.
Microsoft Windows
Windows thought 111 years had elapsed in a week
I left my laptop’s battery fully discharged for about a week. An obscure Windows feature caused it to believe 111 years had elapsed when I powered it on again.
Microsoft Windows
Let me download Windows!
Microsoft should let paying customers download Windows as an ISO-file instead of forcing them to purchase it on physical media.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Office has poor document format support between platforms
Office apps support different file formats depending on your operating system. They don’t interoperate with each other. Here’s a format comparison.
Microsoft Windows
Comparison of Markdown editors for Windows 10
I compared six Markdown editors for Windows 10 from the Microsoft Store. The results weren’t overly impressive.