Hello My Fellow Mobile Moguls,

Sometimes, especially after mistakenly updating the Pocket Media Player library to include every single sound file on your Windows Mobile device, you simply want to start the Media Library indexing process over again without having to hard-reset your wireless device, causing loss of user data.

To accomplish this, do the following:  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello My Fellow DVD Delving Daredevils,

In addition to enjoying virtually all of my DRM-free music library on my beloved Windows Mobile, AT&T Wireless Samsung Epix SGH-i907 Smartphone (complete with Code Factory’s Mobile Speak screen reading/magnifier software solution for the blind and low vision), thanks to some very nifty software, I now enjoy my favorite DVD movies, concerts, and television episodes on my wireless phone, as well.  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello My Fellow Gentle Google Giants,

The next time you find yourself swiftly sinking in the seemingly infinite sulfuric swill of internet swamp-swollen searches, near the top of the results page, quickly Click on the new Google “Show Options” link to place yourself, once again, on surf-surging solid ground.  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello My Fellow Epix Explorers,

There is an old saying that states, “Good things come to those who wait”; well, my friends, waiting we have done and waiting we shall do no longer.  (Big Smile) 

To what am I referring?  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello My Fellow Windows 7 Wonderers,

As you have no doubt heard, while Windows 7 Virtual PC will let you run multiple virtualized instances of Windows 7, Vista, Lynix, etc, on any computer with the ability to run Windows 7 with enough hard disk space, the new Windows 7 XP Mode, which will allow one to run an XP version of a legacy software application in Windows 7 so that it appears to be launching directly in the new OS, will not be permitted on many of today’s computers because of hardware limitations.  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello My Fellow Internet Explorer 8 Explorers, 

The following link will take you to a marvelously informative article, by Edward Mendelson, which discusses 9 new features of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8.

Click Here to view.

Enjoy,

Mark

Hello Everyone, 

As a current work-around to viewing and subscribing to the Mark Taylor Candle Shore BLOG RSS feedin Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, do the following:  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Everyone, 

The following article, by Neil Randall, describes how to configure Microsoft Windows to automatically save multiple versions of files.

Enjoy,

Mark

CONTROLLING SHADOW COPIES IN VISTA (AND WINDOWS 7!)
by Neil Randall

If you’ve never heard of Windows’ Volume Shadow Copy Service, you’re not alone. But master this handy feature and you’ll be able to archive multiple versions of files automatically and without confusion.  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Everyone, 

As has been reported on the Net, for some reason, Internet Explorer 8 cannot display Google’s FeedBurner feeds.  As it turns out, all of the Candleshore and Candleshore related feeds are hosted by FeedBurner. 

This issue has been reported to Google and hopefully it will be resolved soon.

Fortunately, this only affects Internet Explorer 8.

Browsers such as Fire Fox continue to display all feeds correctly. 

A big thank you to my friend, Matthew, for alerting me to this issue.

Mark

Hello Everyone,

Unlike its predecessors, in Windows 7, the built-in Administrator account is not enabled when setting up the operating system.

The built-in Administrator account is an account that has full access and permission on the computer.  To enable this hidden account in Windows 7, do the following:  Read the rest of this entry »