• Tip of the Week: Generate a System Diagnostic Report in Vista 
• Headwhack of the Week: Can't Get Adobe Reader 8 to install in Vista
• Geek Speak of the Week: Digital Dirt
• News: Clueless in Congress 
• News: The Age of Diamond Powered Cell Phones? 
• News: Building the Poor Man's iPhone
• Opinion: How Technology has Ruined Life For Our Kids
• This Week's Radio Show: Windows Vista: A 6 month checkup

Tip of the Week: Generate System Diagnostic Report in Vista

The Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor feature in Vista uses performance counters, event log data and configuration information and combines it into Data Collector Sets. You can generate a report detailing the status of local hardware resources, system response times, and processes on the local computer along with system information and configuration data. This report includes suggestions for ways to maximize performance and streamline system operation.

Open the Control Panel, click Performance Information and Tools, click Advanced Tools (Tasks pane on the left), click "Generate a System Health report". Or press the Windows button, type perfmon /report and press Enter.

Headwhack of the Week: Can't get Adobe Reader 8 to install in Vista

Unless you really don't take advantage of all of the great benefits of the Internet, a utility that is a must have is Adobe's Reader for viewing documents in the now ubiquitous PDF file format.  If you have tried to install Adobe Reader 8 in Windows Vista and failed, you are not alone.  PC Magazine posted some fixes for some of the more nasty issues found by users of Vista and this problem is one of them!