Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols over at ZDNet summed it up pretty neatly for me and revealed problems and vulnerabilities which I didn’t know about. Quoting just the highlights (see the review for details): Operating system incompatibilities : XP is ignored. Whether it’s a dinosaur or not, it’s one of MS’s OS’s and this, to me at least, just isn’t playing fair. Performance : FF4 betas and Chrome outperform it on the majority of benchmarks. H...
Counting on people’s voyeuristic “Trainwreck” (who doesn’t rubberneck at a road accident?)psychology and the “need to feed” and keep up on what’s going on in Japan, a brand new click-jacking scam has surfaced on facebook. This clickjacking/survey scam lures users in with supposed raw footage of the tsunami that hit Japan after the earthquake. The message contains a link to the page hosting the video purportedly shot by a CNN crew, or discove...
Just a quickie - After the betas and the RC, the finalized ie 9 is now available for download. A nice screenshot tour is available: http://lifehacker.com/#!5638885/internet-explorer-screenshot-tour-the-best-new-features-in-ie9 Download Link: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/download
That pun was intended. [rant start here]. Computers are slowly but surely edging into “human territory”. I’m actually glad we’re starting to feel what the mountain lions and bears have felt for years… getting “squeezed out”, in the name of “progress”. I don’t have to guess who’s coming to club this baby seal: United Health Care, BCBC, CMS, Humana (there’s a laugh), et al are (and have been for years). For those unfamiliar (anyone not know what “Jeopardy is?), Jeopardy...
Not strictly Personal computing, except that some of the items covered are tied to that. This really caught my eye, and I figured (maybe I'm wrong) it could come in really useful at least to some degree for just about everyone. It comes from Lifehacker which I couldn't live without. Well, not as well, anyway. Don't forget to check your papers, though. This doesn't tell you where to buy, after all. It's just a "general guide". It's been “just sitting there”...
Blackhat SEO (Search Engine Optimization) attacks have already surfaced exploiting search engines pointed at “most recent earthquakes in Japan” according to Trend Micro. These criminals pounced very quickly to mock up legitimate appearing sites fueled by people’s honest search for details an video clips of the disaster. “We immediately monitored for any active attacks as soon as news broke out, and true enough we saw web pages inserted with key words relate...
The Windows Club has done us all a HUGE service. You all know that your computer needs updated drivers the same as your apps need to be updated. This keeps your computer working as it should without unexpected crashes. Thanks to their article ( http://tinyurl.com/6xcgfvs ) I learned of this utility and have updated my wireless network and chipset drivers. Back up your existing drivers before installing new ones. Download only from the main site or your computer manufacturer&rsquo...
Just a ‘quickie’, folks. Found two nice FREE image converter on the web. Faststone Image converter. Trustworthy name, and iResizer. This version of Faststone is from 4/28/2010. Features (per Faststone): “Converts and Renames images in batch mode Supports JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF and JPEG2000 Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text, watermark and border effects Rename images with sequential number Search and replace text...
Real Mobile Health Care Computing! Needs some “blinds” I think… anyone up for a Medical Theme? Just kidding. This is a great computing development, since it allows a great deal of information to be available as well as real time interaction between consultants and the care giver at the point of care. Everyone profits. How many times I wish I had one of these – even for the simple weekend phone call. With the iPad, and even before its advent, tablets have aided the medical field...
From Gizmodo When JuniorCrooks posted recently about pills for weight loss , it got me curious. Meds have desirable, and undesirable side and adverse effects. Well, what about other methods? There are caloric and food type adjustments that should be made and I wondered about tech. There are surgical procedures such as stomach bypass surgery as well as “lap banding” where a balloon is wrapped around the junction of the esophagus and the stomach (done laparascop...
Like most people, I hardly ever throw away keyboards, mice, cams, etc. Boy, now I’m glad! Logitech sent me (and a bunch of other folks) an email today that advertises up to a 35% trade in on a host of tech gear for new Logitech equipment. They’ll probably refurbish the stuff and resell it here and abroad, but hey – “One man’s trash is anothers’ treasure”, right? At least, that’s what Fred (bkGarbageman) tells me. The url is: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/34...
Antivirals and Malware removal tools cost, and no one’s rich…so here’s how to do it for free. Malicious software (be they viruses, rootkits, trojans, worms, or malware) are so prevalent it’s ridiculous. An additional fact, 85% of attacks come via the internet. I’ve looked at Avast 6.0 and Avira and concluded that Avira is the better of the two. The “sandboxing” in Avast is spotty and not automatic. Also, Avast doesn’t ful...
Head over to Microsoft’s Personalization Gallery and pick up the “Irish Theme” (great Celtic .wav’s in it). and while you’re there… St. Patty’s Day is coming, so get your “Shamrocks” as well ! Don’t forget though, we have some great St. Patty’s Day Themes here at WinCustomize, too! Last year, Philly0381 put together a Theme Manager Suite, “Leprechaun Majik” from member...
Stockholm, Sweden, Hannover, Germany—March 1, 2011—Tobii Technology today unveiled the world’s first laptop with integrated eye control. The prototype laptop has been developed in collaboration with computer manufacturer Lenovo and will be shown publicly for the first time at CeBIT in Hannover, March 1-5. This is a true boon for accident victims, and people afflicted by various neurological problems such as MS, strokes, ALS by giving...
Jorge must be busy, because there’s a brand new update to Winstep Extreme and to Nexus Extreme . I decided to check because I haven’t been to the Winstep Beta Forums in awhile. Winstep Extreme is a superb collection of utilities and desktop enhancements, Winstep Xtreme will change the way you work with Windows forever. Winstep Extreme and Nexus (all packages) work flawlessly with Object Desktop. Read more about it, Nexus and Nexus Ultimate at Winstep.net ...