It looks like online Real Estate will be able to access multiple listing services which should lead to more housing for your viewing pleasure. Seems that the Justice Department and FCC has opened the way for discount brokers to be able to access and advertise homes listed on the multiple listing services, that had previously [...]
Samsung is once again leading the way to large SSD drives, this time announcing a 256 GB drive. According to sources, the new drives should become available during the 4th quarter of 2008. Smasung estimates that the drives should have a life expentency of 1 million hours. It is also stated:
Through major advancements in proprietary [...]
It seems that the folks over at Mozilla are thinking about another release candidate or adding another beta version, prior to the final release. Seems that not is well with version 3 and the team has some concerns that need to be addressed. On there site it is stated:
Hi Folks,
The QA team is still doing [...]
Microsoft has a new white paper in which they downplay Windows XP and glorifies the attributes of Windows Vista, in order to convince IT departments to upgrade. In the white paper Microsoft shows the newest features of Vista that XP does not employee and attempts to actually show us how bad XP really is.
Which makes [...]
Over at eBay there is a hacked Asus Eee PC which according to the seller is loaded with the following features:
The base model is the Asus Eee PC 8GB white laptop. I hack The Asus Eee PC’s and other hardware professionally, I have a killer job! Well I hacked this Asus [...]
Since the introduction of AVG 8 Free Edition, many people have been posting the problems that they have encountered using the latest edition. I am not discounting that these problems are real, or that this new edition is not problem free, but AVG does have an extensive FAQ section that may just help in [...]
There are so many things that we hear about Google, it is sometimes hard to differentiate fact from fiction. So this weekend, when I ran into an ex-Googler, I was surprised to hear about the Google 10-15 plan. First of all let me explain where I was when I met this person.
Over the Memorial day [...]
I started noticing a few years ago that some titles of the newest games were not being released for the PC. That games were being developed for the PS3, Wii and X-box that left the PC gamer wondering. Is the PC gamer a thing of the past? Then along comes AMD with some type of [...]
On the TV this morning was an advertisement for the new 2008 Honda Pilot that now comes with what they call is ‘Variable Cylinder Management’ which they state on the Honda website is:
Honda’s innovative Variable Cylinder Management™ (VCM®) helps to increase mileage* and lower emissions by automatically deactivating and reactivating multiple cylinders, depending on the [...]
I would like to introduce for your reading pleasure, Isabella Mori, who is a guest blogger hailing from our neighbors to the north the lovely country of Canada. Please welcome Isabella to the Lockergnome family.
“I was born in Germany to a father whose ancestors had been flitting all over the Baltic triangle [...]
Over at ZD-Net they are having a meeting of the minds trying to figure out why Microsoft is being silent about the next version of Windows dubbed 7, as in Windows 7. There is also some discussion that testers and those in the groove are being left out as well. But one could conclude that [...]
With Toshiba exiting the HD, one would of thought that Sony would march in with Blu-Ray players with a huge bang. But it seems that the Blu-Ray rush to buy, has turned into a rush to wait. Have people given up on Blu-Ray or is it to early to tell yet?
So I went out on [...]
Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 05/25/08
Norton anti-virus: 05/21/08
McAfee anti-virus: 05/21/08
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 05/22/08
Spybot Search and Destroy: 05/21/08
Microsoft Windows Defender: 05/21/08
Nod32: 05/22/08
Updates as of May 25, 2008 6:00am CDT.
Tags: avg, norton, mcafee, lavasoft, spybot, defender, nod32
For the past month I have been reading the experiences of Ed Bott over at ZD-Net, who has written a series of articles about Windows Vista. In one article Ed takes on two Sony Vaio OEM systems in which he shares his take on doing a clean install of Vista vs the factory install with [...]
I am still getting emails, comments and inquiries as to when AVG 7.5 free edition will no longer accept updates. As I have previously posted the date in which the AVG 7.5 free version will not be updated as of now is 12-31-08
I copied this directly from the AVG free forum. Please note this sentence:
“If [...]
I recently wrote about LifeLock [here] a company which provides ID theft protection, and has advertised on television, using the CEO Todd Davis with his social security number posted on the side of a large truck. In the article it stated how Mr.Davis had actually been the victim of ID theft.
What was interesting was some [...]
Dell is advising customers that the last day to get a Windows XP systems is going to be June 18th, 2008. After this date Dell will be operating under Microsoft’s downgrade rights policy.
Per the Microsoft® Windows Life-Cycle policy, Direct OEM and Retail License Availability for Windows XP will End-Of-Life (EOL) on June 30, 2008. To [...]
We will fight them on the beaches, in the trenches, in the air and under the sea. No matter where they try to hide, we will destroy them! A famous speech from a WWII leader. Nope just the mind set of Microsoft while they attempt to swallow up Yahoo. You may have noticed that Bill [...]
Well this could be just a rumor for now, but one that makes logical sense. Think about it. With Google offering their apps. for free, their Google Sites for free, their Google Blog sites for free, why not free backups to compliment their other free wares? So it was not a huge surprise when I [...]
I think you better sit down before I tell you that Symantec has finally realized that its software slows down a PC. No duh! For any of us in the computer field, we know that taking Symantec software product off of a PC breathes new life into the machine. The system jumps back to life [...]
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