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Mozilla is continuing their beta testing of their new Thunderbird 3 email program, which is expected to go final towards the end of November, 2009. I have been trying the latest beta, T-bird 3 beta 4 this past week and I like what I am seeing thus far. First of all the new email version [...]

Here is the review of the Windows operating system. See what you think:
Streamlined interface; better performance on many systems; easier and more capable networking;
It’s spiffier, with both aesthetic and functional redesigns.
We found the first release of it expensive and occasionally annoying–nagging screen and pop-up bubbles galor.
Like any radical overhaul, it takes some getting used [...]

If you have not seen the clip on YouTube which involved Leo Laporte blowing up at Mike Arrington on the Gilmore Gang on June 6, 2009, take a look at it. These two techno nerds brought up an interesting fact. Can anyone really review any product fairly?
Behind this debate are some facts. If a company [...]

The GM - Volt is still in the experimental stages, but development continues at GM, even though they are experiencing financial problems. The web master at GM -Volt was invited to test drive the new electric car at the GM proving grounds. Having written about the test driving of other electric cars such as the [...]

In the March, 2009 issue of PC World, they did a comparison of 9 Security Suites. Like in the movie Casablanca, they rounded up the usual suspects. Boring. We have been there and done this a 100 times before. Naturally there was Norton and McAfee. Plus BitDefender, Panda, Avira, Kaspersky, F Secure, Webroot and Trend [...]

Reader Buffet asked what my opinion was of Comodo’s anti virus program, and since I had not tried it, I decided to take it out for a test drive. The first thing I had to do was but my prejudices on the back burner. Last year I tried Comodo’s firewall which completely irritated the hell [...]

Little did I know when I posted my results of my 6 week experiment concerning defragging, [here] that I would be testing another defrag software. One of the comments I received was from a reprpresentative of Raxco that produce a defrag problem called PerfectDisk. Here is the comment:
Hi Ron,
Good post. Another option for your defrag [...]

Over at GM-Volt.com writer Dr. Lyle Dennis who is an advocate of electric cars. The good doctor started GM-Volt.com to track the preparations of bringing the GM electric car to market as well as other electric vehicles in production. He was pleasantly surprised when Tesla motors contacted him and offered him a Tesla to drive for a [...]

There is a person who goes by the name of David Jacob that has been posting fake reviews of consumer products around the Internet. Some shoppers have cornered the fake reviewer and are warning other shoppers of the bad advice being given by David. Over at Amazon.com David Jacob provided a review of a product from [...]

As the first beta of Windows 7 becomes available, the ‘I like it’ or ‘I hate it’ games have begun. Over at ZD-Net they have several differences of opinion on what Windows 7 will be and depending on your opinion, what it won’t be. What makes all of this interesting is that it comes basically [...]

Back In January of this year, Scot Finnie of Scot’s Newletter wrote a lengthy review of Online Armor Firewall, which he felt was the best firewall on the market. Scot wrote a glowing report on how he felt that OAF was better than Comodo or other firewalls that he tested. I trust Scot’s opinion and [...]

The quest for a $100 laptop or below has been in the news for sometime It basically all started when the OLPC stated they would have a $100 laptop for developing countries. But unfortunately the little lappy continued to rise in price, eventually costing just about double the original estimate. But everyone knew, that someone, [...]

First let me say that I have not personally used any Symantec products since late 2003. But I have seen previous versions of Symantec products such as Norton anti-virus or Norton Internet Security products and have been less than impressed. In fact I have advised clients to uninstall trial ware of Norton on new systems, [...]

There is a gaming site in Germany called 4Players, which recently wrote what appears is a negative review of Atari’s new game Alone In The Dark. It seems that Atari had provided a pre-release of the game to specific gaming sites, and that 4Players was not one of those sites. It is alleged that 4Player [...]

You’ve heard of the next wave of computers, those little laptops which go by various names, UMPC, Netbook, or even mini-laptops. But I was surprised when I read one person’s review who doesn’t care for the little guys. The review was based on a mini using Windows XP. He even admits that he hasn’t used [...]

It has been well over two weeks since I originally decided to give Commodo 3 firewall a try, after reading some reviews indicating that the latest offering has been improved dramatically. So with this in mind I ventured over to the Commodo 3 Web site and downloaded its latest offering.
During installation I did nothing except [...]