There have been a lot of comments over the past couple of weeks lambasting Microsoft for supposedly introducing an element into Windows 8 which is said to prevent users from dual or multi booting different operating systems, and Linux in particular. It is astounding how […]
Steve Jobs lost his 10 year battle with pancreatic cancer today at the age of 56. I’ll be the first to tell you that I am not a fan of Apple, or its products. From their draconian business practices to advertising that stretches the truth
Almost one month ago, the official distribution site for the Linux kernel was shut down following a serious malware incident. The people behind the Linux kernel discovered malware on the PC of at least one kernel maintainer, as well as on the kernel.org servers themselves.
Longtime Avira fans will immediately notice their favorite anti-virus software has undergone a minor name change; “AntiVir” has been dropped from the title and Avira AntiVir Personal now becomes Avira Free Antivirus. Avira may have changed the name for the latest version of their popular
Speculation is rife that Google Chrome will soon replace Firefox as the the No. 2 browser of choice, behind Internet Explorer – and statistics tend to confirm that as a likely scenario. Some are even predicting Chrome will overtake Firefox as early as December this
Nir Sofer is the freeware developer responsible for the terrific range of NirSoft tools and utilities; all NirSoft freeware is lightweight, portable, and very effective. Nir Sofer has recently combined over 100 of his extremely useful utilities into one downloadable package called NirLauncher. The package
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Kindle Fire is Amazon’s new entry into the small tablet market and, although pre-orders are being accepted now, it is not due for official release until 15th November. Kindle Fire is a 7″ tablet with 8GB internal storage running a special Amazon version of Google’s
***DCT EXCLUSIVE*** Ashampoo has most generously donated 10 licenses for the latest version of their Burning Studio 10 software, to be given away to our readers – this software would normally sell for $49.99usd… thank you Ashampoo! All you need do for a chance to
In recent posts I’ve covered installing Windows Home Server 2011, installing the WHS Connector, the Dashboard home tab, and the Dashboard Users tab. In this post I would like to continue on with the theme and introduce you to the Computers and Backup tab of
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A few days ago a friend asked me what the difference was between performing a quick format and a regular format. First thing I should mention here is that we are talking about used drives, so ‘reformat’ is probably the more precise term. Anyway, technology
Continuing with their enhanced development cycle Mozilla has released version 7.0 of their popular Firefox web browser. The changelog show the following improvements: Drastically improved memory use Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems Bookmark and password changes now
Not really humorous at all, but interesting nevertheless. This video clip sets an explanation of quantum physics to music. Maybe an innovative new learning method?
