Emad Ibrahim

Review: Money Plus 2008 (part 2)

So I wrote a quick post about Money Plus a few days ago.  My main complaint on that post is that I could hardly find anything new that is worth upgrading for.  According to Money’s web site, all the “new” features are “Insight” this, “Insight” that.  It turns out insight is a separate executable that [...]

Microsoft Money Plus (2008) Review (Part 1)

note: don’t forget to read part 2 (link below). I just upgraded my Microsoft Money Home and Business 2007 to the new Microsoft Money Plus (a new name for Money 2008). I got the Home and Business version as well and so far it looks identical. I actually had to go the help > about [...]

Perfect Switcher

Here is the perfect windows switcher for windows Vista.  It has everything you could wish for in a windows switcher.  It tiles.    It docs.    It grids.   It searches.   It supports multiple monitors Do you want it?  Go get it at http://insentient.net/ Related PostsSpeech recognition in windows vistaI just setup speech recognition in Windows [...]

iPhoto ’08 and IPTC

I love the new iPhoto and its new features, specially the organize by events feature. Very slick. Unfortunately, I still won’t be able to use iPhoto since it doesn’t support IPTC. I need the tags/keywords/metadata to live with the file and not in iPhoto’s internal database. This is very annoying as I would love to [...]

Software Virtualization

  Look ma, no virtualisation window: at Tech.Ed Australia today, Microsoft showed its new “Softgrid” technology today that allows apps to run as if they were inside a second copy of Windows. But unlike traditional virtualisation apps, there’s no second Windows desktop getting in the way. Microsoft jacks into the Softgrid | APC Magazine I [...]