Gravatars and the art of being seen
- posted by Michael Walsh on December 17th, 2008
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If any of you were wondering what that ugly blue icon is to the left of your names in the comments box on the bottom right of this page and also to the left of your comments in the articles themselves, well it’s the GRAVATAR icon.
Downgrading to Windows XP on Acer Aspire 2920Z
- posted by Michael Walsh on June 30th, 2008
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Just a little something I picked up on my travels for all of you thinking about going the XP route but have an Aspire 2920. Remember this is not something I recommend as your warranty basically takes a leap off the Golden Gate Bridge but as there are so many of you who ask, I [...]
“Upgrade” to XP??
- posted by Michael Walsh on February 18th, 2008
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Sooner or later someone was going to put it this way. Didn’t think I would find it so comical. Or disturbing…. Coding Sanity has an article up about how he, well, upgraded to XP. I hope this doesn’t go beyond 15 Diggs…
Windows Vista on The Acer Guy
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 23rd, 2007
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Here’s an interesting fact: Nearly half of the visitors to The Acer Guy are using Windows Vista. I am assuming these Vista visits have a lot to do with the surge in interest over the Orbicam problems under this same operating system. And, as these Orbicams “stopped working”, I’m assuming all these people upgraded from [...]
Acer to phase out XP?
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 19th, 2007
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Notebook Review has an interesting article that my aggregator picked up this morning. According to the article, Acer is about to “ditch” the Windows XP operating system. 70% of Acer’s notebook shipments in Taiwan are now using the Windows Vista operating system according to Acer’s president of marketing for Taiwan, Calvin Chang. Chang also said [...]
Orbicam driver for Windows Vista
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 14th, 2007
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More Vista worries here. I have noticed a HUGE demand for “Acer OrbiCam driver” in my swicki. We’re talking a LOT of people: 759 searches (number 1 spot) compared to 130 for the second-placed “customer support” request. I have found this link to DriverZone.com for the Acer OrbiCam driver. According to this page, the supported [...]
Was the Vista upgrade good for you too?
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 11th, 2007
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Got a mail from Bill yesterday asking help on a Vista upgrade problem. Bill’s problem was that during the upgrade from Windows Xp to Vista, he “lost” GridVista and was no longer able to re-install it as his version of GridVista was no longer compatible. Now I am not a software engineer, nor am I [...]
Looking for the perfect 5590 (my mistake)
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 2nd, 2007
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Got this post in my “TheAcerGuy” section. Apologies to Kim for taking it down which is why I’m re-posting it here, along with my response. I don’t normally keep track of what’s available as the global market’s too darned hot for my liking. I prefer to leave that to shopping search engines or newsgator. Hi [...]
Upgrade your Empowering Technology
- posted by Michael Walsh on February 7th, 2007
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During my usual rounds of what’s out there concerning Acer, I came across this forum post where you can upgrade the Empowering Technology from version 1.0 to version 2.0. The guy who posted it did it successfully on his Aspire 5672. There’s even a video showing you how it looks (you might want to open [...]
Edelman stirs up a Vista storm with Acer Ferraris
- posted by Michael Walsh on December 29th, 2006
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There are times when being an innocent bystander is a magical thing. I got word of Edelman’s latest through Scoble and I personally think he’s right about the ethics. Still, hearing positive comments like Scott Beale’s about the Acer Ferrari 1000 and Ferrari 5000s “given” to some of the world’s leading bloggers by Microsoft in [...]
