On November 10, 2009, I received a free copy of Diskeeper Professional 2010, from the company, to play with and to see what I thought. Featured in this new version is what is called ‘IntelliWrite’ which the company claims is designed to prevent about 85% of fragmentation before it happens.
According to the Diskeeper web [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft has built into Windows 7 a tool in which users can check the reliability of their Windows 7 installation. The reliability feature uses a graph that a user can use to determine if any problems have been reported and if there is a possible solution. You can start this feature by going to Start [...]
Over at CNET, writer Dong Ngo has an interesting article in which he has made a comparison of Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Apple’s Snow Leopard. The writer states he used the same computer to run both operating systems individually, using the new Bootcamp version 3.0 which he states made Windows run even better on a [...]
Reader Gina sent me a link over to Dot Net Perls with the latest browser tests for memory usage including IE 8. I took at look at the results and Firefox 3 was the winner.
You can read more about the testing at this link.
Comments as always are welcome.
Browser name
Ending private set in MB
Safari
636.9
Firefox 3
111.8
Flock (Firefox [...]
During my roaming around the Internet, I stumbled upon Dot Net Perls site that had an interesting profile on the memory usage for several browsers. The browser tests included Firefox 3.5RC, Chrome 3.0, Safari 4 and Opera 10b. The testing is described as follows:
Here we note that the previous study of browser memory usage on dotnetperls.com [...]
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 [...]
According to one recent article, Windows 7 will provide a 29% reduction in the amount of clicks one will use for UAC. Interesting. I can reduce that number by 100%. Just turn the darn thing off! Problem solved.
If you are in a hurry to receive the RC build of Windows 7, make sure that the [...]
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 [...]
Intel now has a dual core for their energy efficient line of Atom processors. These light weight power stingy processors were originally designed for the new netbook computers. Now Intel is raising the bar by adding a dual core to the line up. These dual cores still are power efficient but will add some extra [...]
Amazon is testing out a beta version of a new game download site that they have launched. The company hopes to attract many of it’s 88 million visitors to try the new site. I took a look at the site and noted that you get to try some of the games before you buy. Pricing [...]
Over at Ars Technica they have an article which alludes to the fact that Windows 7 Beta 1 has been leaked. The article also states it was is going to cover Microsoft’s reaction, but doesn’t mention anything about any reaction from anyone. I have a reaction to the alleged leak.
First of all with every new [...]
Now that Google has brought Chrome to us, do not fall prey to all of the rhetoric that has filled the Internet. The headlines that says Chrome is a direct attack on IE or Firefox is 100% pure BS. The benchmark tests comparing the browsers are meaning less.
Chrome was just released and one [...]
The headline reads ‘Trust Durcell to scare the $#% out of you’, because of a new ad Duracell is going to show. The ad will show a mom getting out at a park and while getting an infant out of the car she sees a white sedan pulling away and her older child missing. No [...]
Over at the San Jose Mercury News they have an article about how PG&E and Southern California Edison will be testing an electric vehicle. The car is from Mitsubishi car company of Japan and is called a ‘i MiEV’ and is totally electric. The vehicle also boasts several different types of charging from standard [...]
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, [...]
Over at C/Net they have an interesting article about a new plan that Microsoft is trying to revive the image of Vista. Seems that Microsoft went to San Francisco and located anti-Vista folks and gathered them up for an experiment of sorts. According to the article the participants were introduced to a new operating system [...]
Google News during the next few weeks will be experimenting with a new look & new feel. But what is hard to understand is this statement:
Over the course of the next few weeks, you may notice a few changes to Google News… or maybe not.
It seems like Google will randomly select users to [...]
Best Buy has announced a test program in which they plan on offering a recycling service to consumers to bring in their used appliances. The test program involves eight states and 117 stores to begin with. On their web site it states:
Starting June 1, 117 stores in the Baltimore, San Francisco, and
Minnesota markets are inviting [...]
Sunbelt Software is looking for some Beta testers to take its new firewall for a spin. On its forum, the lead engineer has posted a link for the download as well as a registration key good until July 31, 2008. He also states that:
Changes
Significant improvement in packet filtering
Significant improvement in network performance when Web [...]
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