One of the key pieces of functionality that I think is missing from Windows Vista is the ability to mount an ISO image.  Being able to write that image back to media would be useful too. In the past, I have used VCD Control, a tool that is available to MSDN Subscribers as a mean to be able to mount an ISO image to a virtual drive without having to burn it to a CD. Recently, especially after my upgrade to Windows Vista I discovered that VCD Control has become less than stable.  The virtual CD driver loads, but I can’t always add a drive letter, let alone mount an image. Given the situation I did a little search and came across a tool from SlySoft called “Virtual CloneDrive”.  The best part is it is a free app.  That’s the beauty of this; it’s a functional application and the price…

I saw Scoble mention this earlier on his blog today. Don’t get all worked up.  It’s not as bad as it sounds.  It’s not a medical condition, or something funny you do that keeps people staring directly at you. A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web! It’s a pretty simple concept.  You can check out Twitter.com to see what people all around the world are doing at this exact moment.  Things like “trying to look busy at the office” are commonplace.  You can submit your answer via phone, IM or their website. So, join the network, add some friends and Twitter away.

How does that sound for a cool job title?  I was reading Jeff Sandquist’s blog yesterday and found his entry about Michael Garternberg joining Microsoft and the Channel 10 team as a Enthusiast Evangelist. I got to thinking … When I was working for Microsoft, I remember all kinds of different titles like developer evangelist, technical evangelist, etc. I never once recall hearing anything about an enthusiast evangelist.  No offense to my old colleagues, but Technical Account Manager or TAM, doesn’t have the same ring to it as Evangelist. What does an Enthusiast Evangelist do? Michael explains in his blog entry: “Our job is to find, engage and work with enthusiasts and other influencers and show them all the cool stuff that Microsoft is doing. In short, it’s our job to act as the bridge between Microsoft and end users.” Sounds pretty fun.  Sounds like a good opportunity to potentially…

Over the past several weeks I realized just how important Internet connectivity was to me. On Feburary 8, after returning from my trip to Seattle, I discovered that my Internet connection at home was broken.  It started out the alarm light on my DSL modem. I called support and walked through the normal questions of “Did you power cycle the modem?”, or “Is the modem plugged in?” After we got passed that we thought it was a modem problem, so they arranged to have a modem dropped off at my house the next day.  The same problem persisted. To make a long story short, we wound up dedicated a single pair of wire for  phone jack and used that pair strictly for the modem from the NID.  Now I have new hardware, they put me on a new network with speeds about 3MB.  I was offline for 11 days.  It…

Microsoft announced the release of Windows Mobile 6 this week at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. This newest release will contain the DirectPush technology that was introduced last year as well as Office Mobile, code name “Crossbow”.  As far as Office applications on your mobile device go, you’ll be able to use mobile versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. One cool thing to note about Outlook Mobile is that this newest version will allow you to view email in rich-text and HTML formats, enhancing the user experiencing and seeing a message as it was originally intended. Now for all of the T-Mobile Dash users out there like myself, Microsoft also announced that the Dash will have a Windows Mobile 6 upgrade available in the next couple of months.  That is great news!  I’m looking forward to this update. You can read the Microsoft press release on Windows Mobile…