Dan Grossman

Can’t say I got much actual work done this weekend. I spent too much of it working on replacing my monitor and trying to build a media center PC to turn the old one into a nice TV.

Exposé is an OS X feature that lets you see all open windows on screen at once, then quickly bring the one you need forward. Like Flip3D, this clone for Windows Vista uses Aero for beautiful transitions and live window screenshots, but unlike Flip3D, is actually useful. Try it out, it’s free and only 350KB.

I spend more time writing on forums than on this blog, so I’m going to start sharing the more interesting threads I participate in here as well. WebDesignofMaine: Google is number 1. I think Google is going to take over the world. Think about where we are as a civilization, the information age, and who [...]

W3Counter.com‘s global stats report was recently featured on Digg.com, the community-driven link sharing site. It isn’t the first time W3Counter’s been voted to the top as Digg’s users are passionate about technology and love to know what everyone else is using — what browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions — the exact stats W3Counter reports on.

I somehow stumbled into a blog debate of Vista DRM today which led me to A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, a lengthy but extremely interesting look into the world of Vista’s content protection measures. The author, security researcher Peter Gutmann, sums up the document as follows: The Vista Content Protection specification could [...]

It’s been a week since I started working for Microsoft. So far, so good. The best part of this internship so far is the location. Washington is like one huge suburb. No matter how far I drive in any direction it’s the same — beautiful homes spaced out among plenty of grass and trees, people [...]

I just finished reading Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face, the first part of ars technica’s Vista review. It’s a very interesting article if you’re curious about why Vista really took so long to complete and what it offers beyond semi-transparent window borders.

I realized today I forgot to add one of my e-mail accounts to Thunderbird after my last clean install of Vista on this computer.

I like Windows Vista. A lot. I’ve been running it full time on multiple computers since September. But the installation process sucks. I’ve done it 7 or 8 times now, and it only just worked once. That was the first time I installed it on my Averatec laptop as an upgrade from Win XP to [...]

I finally had the last of this round of interviews — my first attempt to find a coop job for April through September to finish the work experience requirement of my degree at Drexel. I met with two really nice people from Microsoft in the morning. First, a recruiter for the IT department that just [...]