Over the past week or so my wife’s XP laptop got severely infected with virus and malware. So, looking for an alternative solution that would keep her from getting infected on a regular basis I decided to give Ubuntu a try. It installed flawlessly and recognized all of her hardware including wifi drivers. Now she’s got [...]

I resisted joining this phenomenon for the longest time but I have to admit I’ve been sucked in. Twitter is one of the new Micro Blogging platforms where you publish short messages on a very frequent basis about what your up to at the very moment in time. Twitter was originally designed to take it’s input [...]

I just downloaded the latest version of Windows Live and got the recent versions of MSN Messenger, Movie Maker (a simplified version) and my favorite – Windows Live Writer. You can get it yourself here http://download.live.com/. I’m now in the process of testing out Windows Live Writer – the latest version which has great support for [...]

I’ve been experimenting with Windows Live Mesh as of yesterday. So far it’s pretty good. What is it you’re asking! Windows Live Mess (www.mesh.com) is a service which on the fly will synchronize selected files and folders on one computer to a web based desktop at mesh.com. You can add multiple computers to the mix and [...]

I started out this blog using blogger. I quickly gave up on blogger when I started using WordPress for two of my other blogs. As a result I quickly lost interest in using blogger and the Initi8 blog has not been updated in many months. I’ve finally gotten around to replacing the old blogger with this [...]