Firefox 2.0.0.14 fixed security issue: Crash in JavaScript garbage collector
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Windows XP SP3 Release Dates
My New System Is Up And Running
First off a big THANK YOU to the guys who helped me pick the right parts. You are truly awesome and I cannot thank you enough.
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Vista's UAC security prompt was designed to annoy you
At the RSA 2008 confab in San Francisco, Microsoft admitted that UAC was designed, in fact, to annoy. Microsoft’s David Cross came out and said so: “The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I’m serious,” said Cross.
When will Windows 7 ship?
For those who care, Ed Bott discusses the issue.
I’m betting that Windows 7 will be ready in the second half of 2009.
All these guesses about Windows 7 and I can’t even get a straight answer on XP SP3…
Vista Start Menu?
Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to the plain Start menu you find in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The program uses your cognitive abilities (visual memory, reflexes,etc.); however, while it is easily understandable for beginners, it is also highly efficient for experienced users.
Interesting, anyone actually used this? Do you like it?
Vista Start Menu
ReNamer 5.25 Released
ReNamer is a (FREE)very powerful and flexible file renaming tool.
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Research Reveals Internet "Black Holes"
Sometimes you try to reach a site and mysteriously you can’t get to it. Perhaps you think its simply your imagination, something wrong with your computer, or perhaps the site is under attack. Or maybe the server that the site is hosted on went down.
However, the cause could be far more mysterious. With the massive amount of users trafficing the internet today, weird things are bound to happen, but about the strangest perhaps is the recently discovered, but long suspected phenomena of internet “black holes.”
Crysis: DX9 vs. DX10
As it stands now Crysis is not the DX10 poster child that we were led to believe it would be. Maybe Crysis is an incredibly forward looking title and not “badly coded” as rumored. I guess time will tell.
Top 10 Ways to Trick Out Your Desktop
For something that you look at every day of your working life, your computer desktop doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. That’s too bad, considering that the desktop can do a lot more than display wallpaper and hold shortcut icons. From widgets to workflows, from calendars to computer stats and beyond, you can do a whole lot on your desktop without manually starting up a single program. Hit the jump for our top 10 list of applications and tweaks that make your desktop a truly useful place to land.