Windows Tip

Did you know you could drag and drop any folder to the "Favorites" menu on the left tree in the Win 7 explorer?

It makes reaching those hard to reach folders very easy.

Discovered by mistake.

Deal Alert for Nashua, NH

Best Buy does not have the advanced Motorola cable modem which supports 3.0 protocol. If it did, the price is $99 or more.

Target has the same thing in stock for $89.99. Go to the electronics section.

Stuck on Boot Screen during OSX Lion install?

I waited for 3 hours - nothing.

Pressed the start button, let the computer turn off, and then started it.

Now, it shows the "Install Mac OS X" screen. Weird!

This is an older MBA with SSD.

What happened to TodayAmerican?

As I had mentioned a few weeks earlier, all servers are in transit. And I went on a vacation outside the country for a glorious, refreshing 4 weeks!

Now, I am back, the servers are en-route to the east coast. In the meantime, I am exploring Windows Azure for future hosting needs.

Let us see how things work out. The code base is on the servers, so unfortunately, I have to wait for everything to come over.

Till then, you can see my updates to the today american twitter account where I keep posting interesting news...

Started with Windows Azure

I have started making baby steps exploring Windows Azure. Here is a good start-up guide:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jeffwids/archive/2010/03/02/getting-started-with-windows-azure-part-1-setting-up-your-development-environment.aspx