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The guys at Opera are being very careful this time. There are so few things left that have been changed that perfection is within reach. This is something I haven’t seen before – a Release Candidate 3 for Opera 10.10.
From the Opera site we have the list of things changed -
Core/UI
- Removed Inconsolata.otf and [...]

Robin Harris, an infrequent, but important, contributor to ZDNet put up a piece today that clarifies for many some things that I learned long ago, and make use of each time I set up a computer.
Yet, for many, I must justify my actions, and give them a quick class in things I feel they should [...]

That’s what we are now being told. No, not the small amount that comes from the natural after-Christmas drop, a more significant valley in pricing that will being smiles to many.
Maximum PC reports that DRAM suppliers will be making strides to move their profits up, while allowing street pricing to go down -
Talk about déjà [...]

For those who are about to make a DRAM purchase, now is not really a good time… with the usual end-of-the-year increases, including the jumps due to anticipated Windows 7 purchases. All DRAM has increased over the last 4 months from 30% to almost 100% in price.
These triple-pushed price increases are making it hard for [...]

By offering to implement another application layer protocol Google is promising up to 100% improvement in internet page loads. This is totally independent of the current Chrome browser, in case you’re wondering.
That’s what is being claimed in a blog post by someone on the Google campus.
A story in ComputerWorld gives the changes that would be [...]

Yesterday, the newest beta release of Opera 10.10 was made available on the Opera website. It is another step on the way to Opera with a bug-free Unite platform.
You have never experienced the Web like this
Opera Unite is a powerful platform that turns your Web browser into a Web Server too. This means you can [...]

With the release of OpenSuSE today, I just had to download it, as I have thought that the distribution has been, since about revision 9, one of the two best Linux variations available (the other is Fedora).
The great thing about Open SuSE is that when you download the DVD, you can choose what interface you [...]

They certainly don’t at Microsoft, or at the U.S Patent Office.
Over at slashdot a story tells about the Microsoft move to patent a command, SUDO, that has been running on computer hardware since 1980, and was originally run on a VAX minicomputer.
The people at the US Patent Office apparently have no clue about software, which [...]

that Mozilla released Firefox 1.0 to play… And for Internet Exploder, it was the day the music died.
Chrome was not a gleam in Google’s collective eye, and my favorite, Opera, was only available as a paid application.
So unless you’re a Microsoft fanboy, you have a lot to be thankful for today (even Microsoft fanboys should [...]

While perusing the ComputerWorld site, I found that ex-PCWorld editor-in-chief Harry McCracken has penned a series of six articles to ease the Windows user into the use of a modern Mac.
In the articles covered are making the jump, getting around at first on OS X, getting your files moved to the new machine, running Windows [...]

It’s official, but I said it long ago. (Perhaps I am somewhat like Nostradamus.) It will take on more weight now that the industry big shots are speaking out – cloud computing is a bad name. It always was.
The Information Week article speaks out on the bad name, and other things-
Sure, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd [...]

As anyone who builds computers knows, each year during the golden quarter (the last three months of the year, where many businesses actually get into the black for the entire year) prices on computer memory go up, as everyone anticipates the need for memory for Christmas holiday (could be Hanukkah, could be Kwanzaa) gifts of [...]

Rumors abound concerning the possible entry of nVidia into the CPU market. Though now is more of a tough time to break new things than any in recent memory, I am sure it would be a great idea.
In any market, a third entry makes the other two perk up and get a lot less comfortable [...]

If you are one of the people who have made the plunge to Windows 7, you might have found that for at least one brand, printer divers are still a problem.  I had used a Vista driver for my HP, but have not done much printing, so, other than a really fine test page and [...]

Once upon a time, when performance in disk drives meant you had to have a SCSI (Small Computer System Interface, developed from the SASI interface, developed by Seagate) add-in card and connected drive, many manufacturers made them. Western Digital never had many offerings, but those it had worked very well.
Then the IDE (integrated drive electronics) [...]