Tonight I was catching up on a few things and decided that I would try to update my Rhapsody client.  The good news is that there was actually an update, but it still didn’t fix any of my problems. Since upgrading to Windows Vista, starting Rhapsody became painful.  Every time I would start the application, I would get this dialog box: Now I have no idea what this means, all I know is it pops up every time I run the application.  How annoying! If anyone knows how to fix this, let me know.

I have been traveling quite a bit in the last couple of months.  I don’t normally travel with any type of GPS which means that if I am traveling to a city that I am not familiar with, it can make it difficult to find places to eat or other venues without a little driving around. Windows Mobile 6 ships with the Live Search application which allows you to track your location with GPS.  You can also see traffic information and search for locations.  As far as usability, I think the app is poorly constructed and difficult to use. After see the commercial for the iPhone that showed the current location on a map, and a search for “seafood” which yields a number of results around your location with the closest highlighted.  The mapping looked familiar, and I actually believe it is using Google. I did some searching around and…

Today, Windows Live Writer Beta 2 became available.  Beta 1 was released in Fall 2006, so this release was long awaited.  Major changes to the interface and APIs make this a definite “must download” for the serious blogger. Windows Live writer supports a number of different blogging engines including MSN Spaces, WordPress, and Blogger. You can download it here: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/. My favorite feature?  Being able to add new categories on the fly.

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You?ve probably noticed by now that Microsoft has integrated another security mechanism into the Remote Desktop client. This authentication mechanism is designed to authenticate against the intended computer before making the RDP connection.  By authenticating with the system prior to the actual RDP connection, it can verify that the system that you intended to connect to is actually the system that will be accepting the connection. This is a great measure to prevent the interception of the connection and reroute to a different potential destination. It has taken me a little bit to get used to, and although I think it is a great idea I found that a lot of folks in the technology community find it rather annoying.  What if I want to connect to my destination right away? You can modify this behavior.  Although it is not recommended, I have found sources (and verified myself) that if…