Windows 7 Startup Cleanup

I'm a big fan of a clean boot and not having a ton of stuff ('inits' they'd be called in the early Mac days) littering up my system tray and bogging down my restarts. I was annoyed when I couldn't make the Virus that is acrotray.exe STOP. I had looked in the usual places - Startup folder (own and All Users) as well as system registry Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (CURRENT_USER and LOCAL_MACHINE) and still it kept popping up. Until today. I tracked down another, new in Windows 7, backward compatible spot:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

And it was like finding a roach nest under the fridge! There was so much garbage there. But not anymore. And never again.

WANT | Carbon Fiber MBA?

Last night my friend joked that my April, 2012 MBA is already a dinosaur – a Carbon Fiber MBA would definitely make me agree!

Apple Sourcing Carbon Fiber Components for Upcoming Product?

MacBook Pro covered by "carbon fiber" stickers

TOUGH STUFF | iPhone 5's Thinner Glass

I was immediately worried that the thinner glass, contributing to the lighter weight, of the iPhone 5, would make it more fragile – apparently not, according to this piece:

iPhone 5 (vs Samsung Galaxy S3) Drop Tests Show Very Durable Device and Screen

Dear Adobe,

Please fix your installers! We just restarted 10 minutes ago, also at your request, also for Acrobat 9.x.x. Do you really need to do this twice?

 

WWDC | hadda move quick

WWDC sold out at 10:30am or so. Guess I had a little time to register once the email arrived. But not much.

And I thought the New York Marathon is tough to get into!

MORE INFO | send to kindle

It looks like sending PDF's to kindle comes at a cost -- if you use WhisperNet, that is. Free over WiFi, but data charges apply for suing WhisperNet. However, you can cap usage (max per document), and select WiFi only for routing, so this shouldn't hit you unless you want it to.

MAC TOYS | send to kindle

I like the flexibility of Amazon's 'send to kindle' tool. I frequently use(d) iBooks to store everything from train schedules to prospectuses. I like Amazon's interface better, however, so this is a welcome tool.

The ability to (basically) Print to Kindle is awesome!