Amazon is entering into the lucrative movies and tv show rental market. This announcement by Amazon is going to put pressure on other companies, since Amazon has an infrastructure in place to handle this addition to their business. Amazon has proven a success and by adding a movie and tv show rental unit, will provide […]
Dell has announced that the company will provide drivers for those Latitude XP users to enable multi-touch aka touchscreen technology for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Dell is stating that users will not have to wait for Windows 7 to be released to take advantage of using your pinkies to operate the system. In addition […]
I received the following comment from Noah Edwardsen of Symantec about their new beta software:
Hi Ron,
The 2009 Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security betas are live and ready!
http://www.symantec.com/norton-beta/
I’ll send you a link to the press release as soon as it hits the wire and would love to answer any questions you might have.
Feel free to […]
The FCC chairman wants to punish Comcast for blocking certain traffic which the cable company says eats up bandwidth. What has come to light is that Comast is not the only one practicing the blocking of Internet traffic. It is just that Comcast got caught at it. The FCC chairman may recommend that Comcast be […]
gAttach is a free utility that helps user of GMail and Google Apps Mail to attach items quickly. The software itself is a freebie and the download, which is only 1MB in size, uses few resources on your system.gAttach actually changes the ‘Mail to’ and ‘Send to’ button and to use Gmail instead of Outlook […]
If you previously downloaded AVG and experienced problems, you may wish to download AVG 8 with SP1 and give it a try. DougCuk has been monitoring the release of SP1 and had notified me it was available. I checked the AVG site and the new release is available for download.
The file name you wish to […]
Mozilla may have broken two records. One for the most downloads in a 24 hour period. The second for needing a vulnerability fix only 5 hours after being released. The latter I am sure was not expected. But what the heck. Nobody is perfect and the folks at Mozilla are only human. It is going […]
So today was the big day. The day when Firefox 3 final became available to the masses. The day the Mozilla team was hoping to set a world record for downloads. Which is kind of strange. It has been stated there is no current download record, so I guess their intent was to make this […]
Over at the Associated Press they have a report from AT&T which the leading ISP states that 5% of their users, use 46% of the bandwidth. AT&T is now considering charging these folks a higher fee or penalty for excessive usage. It also seems that most of the cable companies have similar plans to charge […]
There is a new version of SpywareBlaster available for free download that includes the following fixes:
Mozilla Firefox 3 support
Fixed problems updating in some instances
Fixed errors on load
Fixed errors when attempting to enable/disable Firefox protection
Fixed hang on some Vista machines when trying to update
Fixed improper detection of AutoUpdate enabled status on some Vista machines
Fixed occasional error […]
