Land Of The Lost – The 23” Tablet Computer
Sometimes the ability to be amazed is the thing you miss most when you work with things for any length of time. The many things which come from the (fertile?) minds of the developers of computer...
View ArticleRepeated Mistakes Revisited – Internet Explorer 10 Will Not Install On Vista
If this sounds like something you have heard before, you are right. This time however, Microsoft may just get away with it, as the numbers of people using Windows Vista are much smaller than those...
View ArticleWith USB 3.0, AMD Once Again Proves Its Worth To The Little Guy
USB 3.0 might be the invention of Intel, but try to find native USB 3.0 on any Intel motherboard. You won’t. Right now, there are no motherboards which include USB 3.0 ports as part of the core...
View ArticleNative HTML5, And Other Microsoft B(asic) S(trategies)
Microsoft can say pretty much whatever they wish when it comes to Windows operating system technologies, because no one else produces a Windows workalike operating system. When it comes to browser...
View ArticleOpenOffice Without Oracle? Is That Like A Fish Without A Bicycle?
When I was a little boy, there was a feminist joke about a woman without a man being like a fish without a bicycle, and the same logic may apply to the OpenOffice group. There may be absolutely no...
View ArticleComcast 105 Megabit Service – Is It Worth It?
The news has come that Comcast wants to be the big boy on the block, with offerings of the fastest service for general use, at 105 megabits per second, called Xfinity (no one said they were good at...
View ArticleDoes Microsoft Have Its Own Tick-Tock Strategy?
The followers of technology are fully aware that computer chip giant Intel has a strategy for its processors, which they describe as Tick-Tock. In short, it is a biennial plan where in the Tick, the...
View ArticleThe Power Of Deduction
Yesterday, I was reading about the upcoming move of Best Buy to reduce the size of its stores and move into the mobile marketplace. I’m not exactly certain what is meant by the mobile marketplace, as...
View ArticleWho Says Seagate’s Purchase Of Samsung HDDs Is A Good Thing?
Of course, that is how it is being sold. But when it comes down to the real details, will it be a good thing for Seagate and Western Digital to own 90% of the hard drive market? When there is less...
View ArticleWill Microsoft Antagonizing Customers Work? [Stupid Microsoft Tricks]
Making a sidebar gadget to show the number of day of support for Windows XP is simply a bad idea. Not only is it a waste of space on a desk, only the fanboys will be using something like this. It looks...
View ArticleCanonical Terminates Free CD Disbursement – Will It Affect Ubuntu’s Usage...
The free ride for many, getting a shiny new CD with the biennial Ubuntu distribution for inclusion on their machines is now gone, as Canonical has announced that the ShipIt program is officially over....
View ArticleOpera 11.10 Near Release Final As RCs Come At A Furious Pace
The bugs are dying at an incredible pace in Norway today, as the Opera Desktop Team has put forth another release candidate, these last few coming with point numbers! The latest, and 2nd for this very...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 9 Rises To 4% Usage On Windows 7, Should We Be Impressed?
The idea that Microsoft will use any opportunity to crow about something proves that the company has lost much of its focus, because back in the old days, when Mr. Gates was at the helm, 4% of anything...
View ArticleWhich End Of The Spectrum Is More Exciting?
These days, it is an amazing thing to look around and see that massive work is being done at both ends of the PC spectrum – the top end, where Intel dominates with their i7 processors, and the extreme...
View ArticleAnother One Bites The Dust
After a long run, some will be quick to say too long, the first internet browser branded as being social will see an end to support on the 26th of April. Flock, once heralded as the game changer has...
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