A site called Neosmart Technologies has leaked some information. That information is that Windows XP Service Pack 3 is going to include some of the features that were found only in Windows Vista. SP3 for XP was released to beta testers just a few days ago. The features reported to be in SP3 are not [...]

(click above image for larger view) Today a somewhat big Windows XP update was deployed which included four Outlook Express updates, four IE7 updates and four “Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool” (say that fives times fast) updates. If you notice the update is taking some time to download, bear in mind the Microsoft servers are [...]

Due to the fact Microsoft considers Internet Explorer 7 a high priority upgrade, the WGA prerequisite is no longer required in order to install the software. Even though Dave and myself are both die-hard Firefox fans, we both have IE7 installed because it does serve to provide many mandatory Windows updates (too many to list [...]

For those of you out there that use Google products, you may have noticed Google recently released a Google Updater. This is software that will update Google products on demand. I’m writing this to alert people who use this that the software does install a resident service in Windows XP. It is not harmful whatsoever, [...]

Click image above for a full view of my dual-monitor desktop. Sometimes all it takes is a different look on things to cure the doldrums of the Windows XP interface. With Windows XP you get three themed choices, Luna Blue, Olive or Silver. If you have the Media Center Edition there’s one more called “Energy” [...]

As anyone who watches our videos knows, we do a lot of screencasts. Screencasts are helpful, instructional, educational and so on. They work and work well. But I don’t see too many OS X screencasts on YouTube. And the ones I do see are rather terrible. The audio is so-so, the video quality is choppy… [...]

One drawback to Sabayon Linux is that it’s frickin’ huge and takes a while to download the DVD image. Fortunately the team at Sabayon also releases “mini” versions which are only a CD-sized image rather than a DVD image. Sabayon always releases the big versions first and the smaller ones later. As of now, version [...]

Windows users who use Microsoft Office are now enjoying the latest and greatest from the Microsoft camp, but Mac users have not been so lucky. The current version of Office for the Mac is MS Office 2004. Not to fear, Mac users, Microsoft will have a new version of Office for the Mac in 2008. [...]

Something which has always been present in Microsoft Word is that when you are writing a document, the document itself is centered in the word processor. This has not been the case with OpenOffice. The document has always been on the left while in the editor. I’m not talking about the text in the document; [...]

This morning I got the following email: The Microsoft Group is pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on (15th September,2007) by The Microsoft group.Your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £450.000.00 To begin the claim processing of your prize, you are to contact [...]

If you thought the three-finger salute (a.k.a. Ctrl+Alt+Delete) was bad in Windows, Lifehacker says you can escape a frozen (as in locked up) Linux system by doing this: 1. Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys. 2. While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will appear to happen until the [...]

Want to try Ubuntu Linux? Of course you do. Want to install the entire OS to operate just like an application inside Windows? With no partitioning? No fuss, no muss? And wouldn’t it be even better if it were able to be uninstalled just as easily? Wouldn’t that be great if it existed? It does. [...]