The Mozilla Foundation has announced yesterday that starting April 24th, they would stop supporting all versions of Firefox prior to version 2.0. Still running on version 1.5? Hurry up and upgrade before it’s too late! Here’s a link to the latest version of Firefox bundled with the Google toolbar.
Talk about a bad day at the office: a computer technician working for the Alaskan government accidentally wipes out nine months’ worth of critical data, only to find later that his backup plan isn’t working. Ouch! If you’ve used a computer for long, you’ve experienced the chilling moment when you realize you’ve mistakenly deleted something [...]
Before you start reading this article, I want you to take a trip back into your past when you were being taught the decimal system. Personally, when I was in elementary school (in the 70′s/80′s), teachers used to use a column system to teach us about numbers: [Thousands] | [Hundreds] | [Tens] | [One] The [...]
Right after the months of Apple, PHP and browsers bugs, 2 “security researchers” have decided to follow the “Month of Bugs” trend and make April a month of daily MySpace vulnerability disclosures. According to the duo, the main goal of this new effort is not really about making MySpace more secure but more about showing [...]
-How-to: Installing Ubuntu Linux on a usb pendrive This tutorial will show how-to install Ubuntu on a usb stick. Even though this tutorial uses Ubuntu as its base distribution, you could virtually use any type of Linux liveCD distribution. -How to Idiot-Proof Your Parents’ Computer The title of this article is pretty self-explanatory isn’t it? [...]
-10 Fun Facts About Storage Just make it bigger, faster, cheaper -Building a Wireless Network for Dummies “I have recently been asked to setup a wireless network in home of one of my close friends. It was then when I first realised how litte people know about wireless technology and implementation.” -Reading your Hotmail email [...]
Microsoft have been working on what they say is a revolutionary digital photo format for years now, and now, Redmond plans to submit the new format to an organization that has the main task of analyzing new international standards. ‘HD Photo’, which was formerly called “Windows Media Photo”, is Microsoft’s answer to the aging JPG [...]
At GDC today, AMD announced a suite of tools for developing handheld gaming content for the company’s next-generation mobile graphics chips. These chips support the same Unified Shader Architecture as the Xbox 360′s ATI-designed GPU. Are phones the last stop here, or could the “Xboy” be on its way? For years now there have been [...]
By Al Rozon Contributing writer, [GAS] Before this year, the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, also known as “Spring Forward”, has always been on April 1st. This year, everything has changed: it will be on March 11th. The end of Daylight Savings Time, also known as “Fall Back”, has also been rescheduled to another date. In previous years, it used to [...]
The researchers who are currently working on the new generation of gears that makes the Internet turn have been on the job for years, but recently, corporate giants such as Microsoft and Apple have been forcing the integration of this new Internet technology in their products: IPv6, the protocol that has already started to power [...]
Yes, the title of this post resumes the situation quite well. An Austrian Company named AV Comparatives has recently tested 17 of the most popular Anti-Virus products that are currently available out there, and in that bunch, only one failed the test: Windows OneCare. Surprised? I know I’m not. This is the second test in [...]
Microsoft’s associate general counsel has just delivered a blistering attack on Google in a speech to the Association of American Publishers. Microsoft’s agenda is clear: befriend the content creation industry while painting Google as indifferent—at best—to the concerns of copyright holders. Companies that create no content of their own, and make money solely on the [...]