OK, so yesterday you started getting the news about the strong pushes at CES 2012. “Laptops: The Empire Strikes Back” Last year CES belonged to the Pads. This year the big push is to sleek, super thin and fast performers. And you’ll be happy to hear that what used to cost up there in the stratosphere will now be in the less than $1,000 range. Vizio’s the newest of the players. I talked about that yesterday. (image credit: The Verge) Sony is the...
How about a cool slideout on which you choose keyboard/screen or thin tablet mode? Or maybe a traditional notebook… but with the palm rest/touchpad being transparent on which you get notifications on W8 from your email and RSS feeds? This area can be interacted with only you don’t have to open your notebook to do it! So, no smart phone needed for that. The Intel Nikisi prototype. &...
This one just might take over from CCleaner on my machine. Why? Preston Gralla (PCWorld): “This freebie does a neat job of cleaning out the Registry junk. It scans the Registry, flagging orphaned or bad Registry entries, and shows you the name and values for each. It identifies Registry entries that may be dangerous to delete, and those that are safe to delete, so you can distinguish between the two. It also lets you decide which entries to delete, and which to keep. Fo...
On the face of it, it would make you think “What kind of Security Software is this?” when actually it wasn’t Norton’s fault at all. That’s when this one starts to unravel like a John le Carré spy novel. The code (or part of it) was stolen from a “third party”. The Indian Army. I guess they really do need some beefing up of their security, by a group called (insert dramatic name here) “Lords of Dharmaraja”. The good news?...
For the Ps fans… have you ever seen that one super brush which would be perfect for your project… but it’s “for cs3 and later”, while you’re using Ps 7? Have you wanted a better display of your treasured brushes, or are you considering which you really need and use to clean out junk that’s slowing Ps down? Well, I found this gem this morning: abrMate. It’s free and as far as I can see, there’s no other utility around which does what it does: Open and previe...
Koop informed me that this is available for free, and it’s no less (except Backup from Snapshot) than the $40 version. It has a full range of features which you can view here: http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/comparison.htm and screen shots which you can review here: http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/comparison.htm It’s an excellent, and free utility to have and use . So get into the habit of backing up your stuff and saving a whole lot of...
Neowin just published about a Swedish company (Tobii) which has invented a tool to make Windows 8 much cooler (though regrettably not any prettier). If you watch the video, you’ll see that this tool is used in conjunction with a mouse or touchpad. Also, it could probably be used with a Wacom type device. This device will be demo’d at CES 2012 at the MS booth. So, to launch an app, just look (or gaze) at it and touch the pad… poof! Source: ...
I read a frightening article sent by Hankers, yesterday. “Japan reportedly has paid Fujitsu $2.3 million to build a self-replicating assassin squad -- a computer virus it can set loose in the network to track down and eliminate other viruses…The government agency in charge of weapons development paid the heavy industries firm $2.3 million (178.5 million Yen) to create a virus that can analyze cyberattacks and even identify their source.” - http://www.foxnews.c...
Ran across these goodies in an article on Devgarage today. Haven’t evaluated them yet, but some seem quite robust, and for folks who can’t afford Photoshop, or its equivalents, seems these could be of interest…. Should be good on older machines which might not have the resources necessary to run big programs and RAM hogs like Ps (when you have lots of fonts and layers). I’d like to hear back how you folks feel about them, if you decide to try them. Aviary isn’t bad (as far ...
Many times I see forum posts about problems caused by Windows 7, or other software being blamed on Stardock software. I also see yrag being called on for help. He’s a great Community resource, but obviously can’t always be expected to be there or (please don’t kill me, yrag) necessarily solve those problems. As with any super complex piece of software, things can go wrong (or be made to go wrong). Also, Windows has a wide selection of tools to help figure out wh...
Normally I’d say, “Take your time and don’t hurry with .NET updates.” This one is the exception. You have to figure it’s important if MS engineers sacrifice their Christmas to put an out-of-band security update out there. Out-of-band updates involve typically address very high risk vulnerabilities to risks prevalent on the net. This update is rated “Critical” for a DoS vulnerability. “Yesterday evening, we published an Advanced Notification alerting customers to a...
“Whaaaaat?”, you must be asking yourself as you read the title. Hopefully, it’ll suck you in to read the article. Darwin proposed several mechanisms to explain the diversity of life as he observed it and his travels sought the evidence for them. Had he and Mendel been contemporaneous… well. He proposed “Descent with Modification” and its main causative mechanism, “Natural Selection” (NS). Well, Darwin came before antibiotics, antivirals and Windows 8. Parallel to “Natural S...
Trillian is a multiprotocol im app for Windows, MacOS X, Android, iOS, Blackberry OSand can connect to: AIM,Yahoo IM, Windows Live messenger, IRC, Bonjour, Novell GroupWise messenger, XMPP and Skype networks and to Facebook, Twitter, LinkdIn, FourSquare and MySpace as well as to POP3, IMAP, Hotmail, WindowsLive mail, Gmail and Yahoo mail. All have their own colors and indicators and icons. You can use pictures of your contacts as well. You can create multiple connections to the s...
So, you want to make a back up copy of all your “Rescue Tools”, great music, art, etc. so you can utilize it for another purpose. Say you want to make an image of your mp3 music player’s content and then mount each different style of music differently. But, you really don’t want to “Copy to” or “drag 'and drop”. Say you really want an image (a clone) of the original. The free USB (and basiically any device connected as a USB device to your ‘puter) has t...
Stratfor is an open code US based security think tank. It evaluates present and future threats from open Internet sources. M.I.6/CIA/DIA this info isn’t. "The Stratfor hack is not the work of Anonymous. Stratfor is an open source intelligence agency, publishing daily reports on data collected from the open Internet. Hackers claiming to be Anonymous have distorted this truth in order to further their hidden agenda, and some Anons have taken the bait," the group clai...