I was in the middle of taking my official copy of OS X Snow Leopard and restoring a disk image of it to a USB Flash drive (you know, to make installation faster… yeah – that’s the ticket), and I came across this problem I wasn’t used to – Snow Leopard threw an error like … Read more
I entirely lost this post – not even an autosave existed. I’m not sure what happened. But I’m going to carry on anyway. If you’re a Firefox user like I am, you probably have a few add-ons that you install right away when you first setup Firefox. Here’s a few of mine – feel free … Read more
Rumors have been circulating that computer maker HP would be offering customers the ability to downgrade to Windows XP later this year when Windows 7 ships out. Now that rumor has been confirmed with an announcement by software giant Microsoft, confirming that users will not only have rights to downgrade to Windows Vista, but also … Read more
It must be a slow news month, but the media is absolutely eating up this Conficker virus. Why? Because it’s pulling the old 1990’s “on this popular holiday X, this virus will activate and wipe your hard drive or do some other dastardly deed” schtick. This worm / virus has been out for about six … Read more
In an effort to squash competition from Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation), Google and Sony have struck up a deal to put over 500,000 eBooks on Sony Connect eBook store for FREE. Granted, all of these books are public domain, but they’ve been specially formatted for Sony Reader. Ars Technica weighs … Read more
Just a quick note: the new Internet Explorer 8 was released on the official Internet Explorer home page today. It’s supposed to be faster, stick to web standards (Ha! Believe it when I see it) and a lot more secure. If it asks me once if I’d like to Allow or Deny with a Vista … Read more
Today Microsoft announced that the release candidate (RC) for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is now released to the general public for beta testing. How can that be a bad thing? It works for OSS projects like Firefox and various Linux distros. Just anyone can go and download these might-as-well-be-final versions of their product and … Read more