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Remove Filter  | Happy Birthday to Firefox! Mozilla.org today confirmed that November 9, 2004 was when it's popular web browser Firefox, was released at version 1.0 Today, the software is at revision level 1.0.7 (Mac, Windows, Linux), and the company is working on 1.5. The announcement website: [url]http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-11-9.html[/url] mentions a contest to "extend" … |
| | Operating System software is an entity that lives and breaths on it's own. It requires little tweaks and enhancements here and there to make it better, and to fix problems. Such is the case with Apple's Tiger OS X, 10.4, and the release to 10.4.3 Let's look at some of … |
| | Microsoft this week updated Microsoft Works -- the consumer-level "home" edition of Microsoft Office. Microsoft Works Suite 2006 is now available for SRP $99.95 Microsoft Works is an integrated word processor, spreadsheet, database, calendar, and email client wrapped up into one large program. The programs are sufficient for most home … |
| | An interesting paradigm shift came across my eyes today -- I caught an ad that some Adobe Photoshop experts are now doing Podcasts on how to work the state-of-the-art digital photo editing package Photoshop! PhotoshopTV! Their first podcast aired on October 24, and the show featured techniques on how to … |
| | GIMP -- the GNU Image Manipulation Program -- is about to be upgraded to version 2.4 Presently available as 2.3.4, the program that makes digital image editing easy on a Mac, Windows, and Linux, is about to see major positive enhancements. GIMP is comparable to Photoshop, the industry standard for … |
| | Studio To Go is a Knoppix-based Linux musical software environment that allows Windows users access to linux-based open-source software tools, without having to install Linux onto the Windows PC. Knoppix is a Linux that runs completely from a CD-ROM, although it probably takes some RAM and turns it into a … |
| | Netflix -- those wonderful people who provide a website for you to choose movies from, and then will mail you a DVD that you can view at your leisure and return back to them via the US Mail -- was working on a plan with TiVo to download / stream … |
| | Last week, Apple released a new iMac and a new iPod. I forgot to tell you about the third component released: iTunes 6. Apple has expanded the iTunes functionality to now include Music Videos and TV shows available for downloading. This new functionality supports the new iPod described last week. … |
| | Apple's new iPod is just simply awesome. Announced today (Oct 12, 2005), Apple's new iPod has new video capability, along with other featurs that turns the music box into a sophisticated piece of equipment. With all this functionality, my Palm PDA might be forced into retirement! We all know that … |
| | Sleek. Powerful. Graphic. Capable. Stable. Portable. Clean-design. This new iMac G5 Rocks. At a special event today (Oct 12, 2005), Apple Computer released two new awesome pieces of hardware -- an iPod that can play video, and a new awesome iMac G5. Let's talk about this new G5 and why … |
| | Last week, Griffin Technology announced a new product -- iFill -- that will capture audio from free radio stations on the internet, and fill your iPod with several hours worth of music from the internet. iFill allows you to select from several stations, and several musical styles. According to the … |
| | Microsoft's new Digital Locker system allows users of Windows computers to download computer software from a variety of vendors. A number of software vendors already provide this functionality -- Microsoft's system brings those vendors under "one roof", manages the financial transactions, and then stores the license information for later use … |
| | OpenOffice.Org, the creaters and maintainers of the open-sourced OpenOffice, have just released version 1.1.5 of their office software suite. The update addresses a security problem concerning a buffer overflow; there are other issues that are repaired since version 1.1.4, such as porting updates (OpenOffice was developed for Linux first, and … |
| | Security researchers announced a new vulnerability for users of the Firefox 1.0.6 browsers on a Unix or Linux platform. The problem revolves around a security bug that could allow hackers to execute arbitrary shell commands if they can trick the user into accepting a malicious link on a website. The … |
| | Symantec released a report comparing Mozilla Firefox vs. Windows Explorer, and found that Firefox had more security flaws, but Explorer's were more severe. The report also disclosed statistics on a number of other concerns involving Internet Security. Using data collected between January and June 2005, Mozilla's browsers suffered 25 vendor-confirmed … |
| | What does Googlebombing mean? How does it affect IT? Can it affect the integrity of website searches? Should search engines have the ethical responsibility to restore / correct the rubble the Googlebomb causes? Let's look into this facinating new word I learned today. According to Wikipedia, Googlebombing is "the attempt … |
| | Early in September, NASA implemented new software controls on the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing it to shut down one of the three remaining gyroscopes, reserving the third gyroscope for later use. By doing this, scientists hope to extend the Hubble's mission through mid-2008. Gyroscopes are rotating mechanisms that remain fixated … |
| | Apple Computer, announced on Wednesday a new cell phone that serves as an iTunes player. The phone, available only through Cingular Wireless holds about 100 songs that are downloaded from a Windows PC or Macintosh, and the songs are managed just like an iPod. According to the FAQ, the phone … |
| | The case between Google and Microsoft over executive Kal-Fu Lee began this week in court. According to reports, the case already has both sides trowing mud at each other. Some of you may recall that Kal-Fu Lee, a former executive of Microsoft, recently left the company and joined Google in … |
| | Last week, Intel announced a new chip design that promises less power use per unit time, along with embedded security and management functions. The goal is to provide a 3.5 times performance-per-watt improvement over today's single-core Xeon based server CPU. Intel's CEO Paul Otellini said that this new design goal … |
| | Creative Technology, the makers of the Soundblaster cards, and more recently, the Zen Neon portable music players, confirmed this week that 4,000 of it's shipped Neon music players shipped with the Wullik.b worm that affects Windows computers. Wullik.b came to the world in 2003 and it attacks all flavors of … |
| | According to Information week, AMD and Intel have cut their prices on their processor platforms, anywhere from 10 to 30 percent on some models, such as the Centrino and Athlon64 X2 dual-core chips. This is interesting news, considering that there is a lawsuit in Federal Court in Deleware, where Intel … |
| | [B]Intro[/B] In one of the Forums, the question was asked on how to setup a RedHat 9 server so that it manages network connectivity within the home, and provide services to Windoze clients. This tutorial will address how to setup a RedHat 9 Server that will Firewall and provide services … |
| | [B]Intro[/B] This guide is for building a Linux audio server using RedHat Linux and Icecast / Ices combination. I write this guide with no expressed warrenty or liability for it's accuracy or completion. You may use at your own risk. This is simply how I was able to get my … |
| | Hello, First, what is TDM? Targeted Disk Mode. Back in the day of the first Mac laptops, and I think it was System 7, you could take a Mac laptop that had a special SCSI Cable (it was missing a pin) and using a control panel setting, turn that laptop … |
| | Hello, I was killing some bugs on a user's system, and found one with a License.txt file. I find this particularly amusing that someone would write something. Here it is: THE DELFIN PROJECT, INC. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT ("EULA") FOR THE PROMULGATE® CLIENT SOFTWARE PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE USING … |
| | Hello, I found this out on Macintouch.com tonight, and think it is relevant for us to note. *********** Alan Claver offered some good tips for avoiding Norton AntiVirus's bad habit of destroying entire mailbox files: The problem is that the virus signature appears in clear text within the mailbox file … |
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