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Ok, this is something that has plagued me for years. Have you ever had your Windows PC clock not keep time? I mean, really, in this day and age with computers measured in Giga Hertz and Tera Bytes, and our iPhone able to check email anywhere in the world, we can’t figure out how to keep a clock in sync? I’m not talking about 30 seconds here or there, I’m constantly relying on the clock only to find out it jumped an hour or two.

This month I read an article in pcworld magazine which can be found here or I’ve transcribed it below:

Windows 7 may be the best Windows yet, but it suffers from the same annoying problem that plagued Vista and even XP: Its clock doesn’t keep good time.

That’s because the default time server Windows uses to fetch the current time, well, bites. I don’t know if this is because of server overload or what (obviously there are a lot of Windows systems out there, all looking for a clock fix), but I’m tired of getting the same cryptic error when I try to sync manually.

Ah, but there’s a fix. If you’re trying to get your system to keep better time, try this:

1. Right-click the taskbar clock and choose Adjust date/time.
2. Click the Internet time tab, then the Change settings button. (This might be a little different in Windows XP.)
3. Erase what’s in the Server field and replace it with pool.ntp.org.
4. Click Update now. In a few seconds, Windows’ clock should get synchronized.
5. Click OK, then OK again, and you’re done.

Your mileage may vary, but this time server worked like a charm for me.

In my previous post, I talked about Flex, the cool new tool from Adobe that allows us programming-types to create applications in the Flash runtime for the browser. This greatly reduced our dependancy on ActiveX and Java.

But now think about the extra potential here: a Flash runtime installed on almost everybody’s computer whether PC, Mac or Linux, and great programming environment to create animations AND applications, why limit that to the web?

With Adobe AIR you can compile SWF files to run on the local computer as an application outside of the web. Isn’t that great? For those of us writing programs like these (thick-client applications we like to call them), we now have a cross platform solution supported by a large company that allows us to do so much more.

My thick-client work has been mostly in Microsoft’s Visual Studio in the past. The biggest drawback being the final result only runs on Windows computers without special software. But even with special software the results aren’t always the best.

I think we’re going to see a big increase in applications that are offered in the Adobe AIR runtime and I’m looking forward to writing a program in the environment!