Microsoft is soon going to be faced with a very interesting problem that will require a command decision by the higher ups. Should Microsoft keep Windows XP around for awhile longer or just give the mini-laptop market to Linux? As part of their game plan, Microsoft has told OEM’s no more Windows XP [...]
I spotted this posted by Temmu over at Scot’s Newsletter forum I found it hard to believe. With all of the problems that Vista has had with hardware drivers, one should be happy that someone was trying to help. But it appears that Creative Labs has a difference of opinion. It seems that a Daniel_K [...]
The folks over at Yahoo! have a new Web site designed for women by women where they can connect to each other all over the world. Shine also includes and encourages female bloggers as well as other interesting articles where your comments are welcome. On the site, Yahoo! states:
When we started talking about creating [...]
In a cruel hoax someone posted on craigslist the address of a man in Oregon and indicated that everything on his property was free for the taking. The homeowner, who wasn’t at home at the time, became suspicious when he received a call about his free horse. On his way back to his home he [...]
Since I wrote the article yesterday about the alleged NVidia problem in Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, I did some roaming around the Internet. It appears that the display adapter problem plagues both NVidia and ATI drivers. What is hard to figure out is what drivers do what, since the systems may display different errors [...]
At the CanSecWest security conference held in Vancouver, Canada this past weekend only Ubuntu remained unhacked in the contest. According to the web site at DVLabs the contest ended with only a Sony sporting Ubuntu as the final victor. The article stated:
So at the end of the last day of the contest, only the Sony [...]
Here is another in a series of Google softwares that is still in Beta [testing] stage that you might be interested in. If you are a Gmail user you can install Gmail Notifier which will allow you to view your mail without opening up a browser. According to Google they describe their software product as:
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Over at Engadget they have a pie chart allegedly from Microsoft that was bundled with emails and other documents in the Vista Capable lawsuit. The pie chart shows who is to blame for the crashes that cause Vista to cease functioning properly. The only problem with the chart is that it does not indicate a [...]
Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 03/29/08
Norton anti-virus: 03/26/08
McAfee anti-virus: 03/26/08
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 03/27/08
Spybot Search and Destroy: 03/26/08
Microsoft Windows Defender: 03/26/08
Nod32: 03/29/08
Updates as of March 30 , 2008 6:00am CDT.
Tags: avg, norton, mcafee, lavasoft, spybot, defender, nod32
Currently OEM’s are allowed to offer systems with Windows XP installed until June 30, 2008. But some industry analysts seem to feel that this date may be extended again. Why? Traditionally businesses have always waited until the first service pack is issued before upgrading their systems. But what makes Vista different is its high hardware [...]
“Congratulations, You’re Not Getting A Dell,” so says Tiger Direct in its advertising flyer. In the same advertising flyer, Tiger Direct gives six reasons not to buy a Dell. It then lists Acer, Lenovo, Sony, HP, Toshiba, and Gateway brand names as the six reasons. Next the folks at Tiger Direct pit the six brands [...]
For the past few days or so, the formating tool bar on my site here has taken a vacation. When I log in to the dashboard and go to write, only the HTML code section appears. It has been way to long since I played the code game and like most of you, have become [...]
After a year and a half of testing, Scot Finnie has finally concluded which is the best of the best when it comes to firewall protection. Needless to say it wasn’t the built in firewall supplied by Microsoft. But before we discover who Scot has given the honor to, I want to commend [...]
Over at Dell they are starting to offer Blu-Ray options for players and burners on their 1525 series of laptops. The option is available in either a DVD Combo Blu-Ray player at $280 or the burrer model for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray for $480.
At Fox/Business they describe the Dell 1525 as:
The award-winning Inspiron 1525 laptop features a [...]
Yesterday I received a comment from a reader named Luis in which he described a problem he was having using the built in Backup and Restore feature of Windows Vista. He described his problem as:
Hi, I have a huge problem and cannot find
anything related to it on the internet. I’m running Vista Ultimate on
an HP [...]
It has happen to all of us. Windows has become corrupted after a virus attack or just because it wants to be a pain in the rump. Now you are faced with a clean install to fix the problem. Wouldn’t it be nice to have all of your updated hardware drivers ready to be reinstalled? [...]
During the past year many PC users have either switched or have considered switching over to a Mac system. One of the questions that comes up is how hard is the learning curve going to be? Fortunately Apple has a great site that takes some of the pain on making the switch. Called Switch 101 [...]
Adobe is offering to the public a free beta test of its Photoshop Express software. Included in the freebie is up to 2G of online storage. Users can then store, edit or use eye catching effects to modify their photographs. All of this online and is done through your browser. [Gee, this sounds like more [...]
I’m a Netflix customer and on Tuesday I received a notice from the company apologizing for the outage they suffered on Monday March 24, 2008. The outage resulted in a delay in one of the movies I had ordered by one day. I later learned that Netflix was going to apply a credit of 5% [...]
I received an email this morning from a relative asking for help in receiving email thru their Comcast account which is being sent via a Yahoo account. It seems that Comcast is filtering out some Yahoo emails because of spaming. In their response Comcast states:
“Thank you for contacting Comcast. My name is Patricia, and I [...]
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