{"id":1193,"date":"2009-07-06T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2009-07-08T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:26:41","slug":"windows-vista-in-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2009\/windows-vista-in-july-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista in July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I posted an update on my main Vista PC!\u00a0 That&#8217;s because since the memory update to 3Gigs and the installation of Vista Service Pack 3 I finally have a computer that actually works properly. Admittedly some of older software and games still don&#8217;t work but I use the VM on the mac to run them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been able to use some new feature of Vista including the Gadgets sidebar!\u00a0 There are now some excellent gadgets you can have run on the sidebar &#8211; some very impressive! Check them out here <a href=\"http:\/\/vista.gallery.microsoft.com\/vista\/SideBar.aspx\">Vista Sidebar Gadgets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My personal favorites you can get from the link above include:<\/p>\n<p>Xirrus Wi-Fi monitor<br \/>\n(Shows an active scan of available and unavailable Wireless Networks!)<\/p>\n<p>All CPU Meter<br \/>\n(Shows CPU usage on all the CPUs in your computer and memory usage)<\/p>\n<p>Wireless Network Meter<br \/>\n(Shows live stats on all the important details of your wireless connection like uploads and downloads, signal strength and activity graph.\u00a0 Looks good too!)<\/p>\n<p>Wired Network Meter<br \/>\n(Shows live stats on all the important details of your wired internet connection like uploads and downloads, signal strength and activity graph.\u00a0 Looks good too!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I posted an update on my main Vista PC!\u00a0 That&#8217;s because since the memory update to 3Gigs and the installation of Vista Service Pack 3 I finally have a computer that actually works properly. Admittedly some of older software and games still don&#8217;t work but I use the VM on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-windows-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}