Microsoft Midori

Posted on July 30, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Tech News | Leave a Comment

Microsoft is working on a project, codenamed Midori, to create an Internet based OS to replace Windows.
This is said to be Windows’ replacement at some point in the future, as the desktop operating system becomes obsolete in function.

Maintenance Tools

Posted on July 4, 2008 - Filed Under General, Software, XP | Leave a Comment

Time again for some more recommendations. This time, I’m putting you on to some free Windows maintenance tools. Microsoft worked mostly on the code of the OS, trying to make the thing work, but not so much time on keeping it running.

System Inspector

Posted on May 18, 2008 - Filed Under Software | Leave a Comment

If you ever look at Task Manager in Windows, you probably don’t get a lot of good useful information from the tab that says ‘Processes’. I know I don’t. It’s primarily an overview of things running at that moment in time but it only shows the top-level info, the underlying processes remain hidden.

Blurred Vision

Posted on May 16, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Google Maps, Software | Leave a Comment

After complaints of privacy invasion started coming in, Google has begun automatically blurring faces of people captured in the street photos taken for Google Maps.
Although Google’s Street View service was not the first to augment online maps with photos, the detail and breadth of images on the site surprised and unsettled many users when it […]

XP SP3 Update

Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software | Leave a Comment

As much as I have touted XP over Vista, along comes Microsoft with Service Pack 3 for XP to foul everything up. Maybe they figure since they messed up with Vista SP1 and are getting plenty of bad press for that, they might as well equalize everything by fouling up XP. If users sense that […]

Piracy Up

Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, Software | Leave a Comment

Just back from vacation and a short hiatus — so here we go again, hopefully with some news or views of interest to you.
According to a new study, software piracy is worse now than ever. Estimates are that nearly 40% of all commercial software copies are fake, with a cost to the industry of almost […]

Xobni

Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Tech News | Leave a Comment

A startup called Xobni has just released a new, free plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that aims to help make email more searchable and more social. Xobni — which is inbox spelled backwards — appears as a collapsible, vertical sidebar situated on the right-hand side of the Outlook window.
The software’s main function is search, and it does […]

Screensavers

Posted on May 3, 2008 - Filed Under Software | Leave a Comment

Who said screensavers were dead? Sure, our monitors don’t really need them anymore and screen burn is pretty much a thing of the past, but a lot of people still like them. If you happen to be one of them, here’s some pretty interesting ones…

Upgrade Down

Posted on April 26, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Vista, XP | Leave a Comment

If you bought a new computer in the last year, and it had a Microsoft OS on it, chances are you got yourself a shiny new Aero. If you bought almost any retail store computer, it would have had Vista on it instead of XP. So you’ve been using it a while now….

Hardy Heron

Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Ubuntu, Vista | Leave a Comment

Interesting coincidence that Ubuntu’s newest release of its Linux distro, this one called Hardy Heron, was released today. Haven’t tried it on yet, but every release of this OS seems to make great strides toward being market competitive with Microsoft. Leave Vista in the mix and

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