Winamp 5.65 is out.
See this forum post for changelog and download links.
Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 Released
Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 is out. It is available via Windows Update as well as downloadable.
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office 2010…contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2687455) 32-Bit Edition
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2687455) 64-Bit Edition
Updates are also available for the Visio and PowerPoint viewers via Windows Update.
One Sweet Mother (board)
Just up at [H]ardOCP: ASUS Sabertooth Z87 LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
If you want a long-lasting, good-performing motherboard this may be it.
If I had the cash to put together a Haswell system this motherboard would be at the top of my list.
Tuesday Random Stuff
Random Tuesday morning news from around the web.
Ed Bott is at it again: The Metro hater’s guide to the Windows 8.1 Preview
Tom’s Hardware has tested 31 USB 3.0 Thumb Drives. Their “winner” is the SanDisk Extreme 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Model SDCZ80-064G-A75. A comment to the article led me to check out the Newegg reviews in which 45% gave this drive one star (as of this writing). Faster isn’t always better.
Wanna know what wi-fi would look like?
Do not mess with Kevin Rose’s dog!
New pics from NASA of the Earth from 898.414 million miles (1.445858 billion kilometers) away.
Acronis True Image 2014 Beta Invite
Acronis True Image 2014 Beta Invite
What’s New?
– Disk backup to Acronis Cloud Back up your system or other partitions directly to the Cloud saving all data and partition structure.
– Bare metal system recovery from the Cloud When your system becomes unbootable or you change your hard drive, you can recover your system from Acronis Cloud using Bootable media.
– Incremental recovery from the Cloud When you recover a partition from the Cloud, data is recovered incrementally. It makes the operation very fast.
Protecting Your Privacy Online
Microsoft has a guide entitled Protecting Your Privacy Online.
It is an informational PDF you may wish to pass on to your not so tech-savvy friends and family.
Acronis True Image 40% OFF
Bad Tweak – useplatformclock true
Article revised and merged. See: Timer Tweaks Benchmarked
Google Chrome Updated
Google Chrome has a small update to version 28.0.1500.72.
“It includes a fix to an issue that was blocking Chrome from loading content, for certain users.”
Source: Google Chrome Blog
Download or update from within Chrome.
Random Saturday Stuff
I got busy and didn’t get around to posting yesterday. To me, it was a pretty boring week news wise. I really couldn’t give a rip about the Microsoft re-org which seemed to be the major headline this week.
Not new and certainly not concise but the Makeuseof Best Of Apps is the best I’ve seen.
The How-To Geek has a handy article up: How to Easily Transfer Files Between Nearby Smartphones
Not news. This week several sites mentioned an article where the author discovered that if Firefox is running slow it may help to disable hardware acceleration. This “new discovery” has been known by Geeks for some time thanks to the Mozilla support page and 2 year old articles like this one. :rolleyes:
System Ninja 2.4.3 is out. It is another good system cleaner brought to you by the same folks who do CCEnhancer.
One change to Android Apps I Use. I had to switch from AdFree Android to AdAway as it was causing too many issues navigating sites.