I just read an interesting article with the above title.
Windows has some features OS X could do with.
There, I said it. Nice and quick and up front. No beating around the bush. So what now? Duck!!!
Is it safe to come out yet? I’ve been burnt before daring to suggest this. But here I […]

It looks like the Mozilla group have decided that with all the bug fixes and whatnot in their 1.1 release, they are going to rename it when complete to 1.5 “Deer Park”.
Firefox 1.4: Beta release in August 2005
Feature Complete general public preview release
Firefox 1.5: Milestone Release
New Gecko, ongoing HIG compliance, software update system and extension […]

Now this is just insane. A Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of 9? I don’t even think I could read at that age! :)

Arfa Karim of Multan has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan, and one of the youngest in the world. Karim, now 10, met with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates […]

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple may soon look at liquidating its existing stock of some Mac models in a similar fashion to the recent liquidation of older iPod models.
Some of the Mac systems Apple is looking to discount include “finished goods” stock of Mac minis, first generation iMac G5s and Power Mac G5 desktops. […]

As a result of the “Hot Coffee” mods for GTA: San Andreas, the rating on the game was raised by the ESRB from Mature 17+ to Adults Only 18+.
Rockstar Games has ceased manufacturing of the current version of the title and will begin working on a version of the game with enhanced security to prevent […]

Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba have all launched projects to push fuel cell technology ahead. Additionally IBM and Sanyo have recently worked together to produce a prototype fuel cell to power ThinkPad notebooks/Tablets. It is exciting to see the fuel cell battery alternative finally start to emerge from fiction to fact. Several other big players have […]

It looks like VU Games lost the publishing rights to Valve Software’s wonderful games.
On April 28, after months of overt legal disputes and covert bickering, VU Games and Valve Software announced they were ending a half-decade-long publishing deal. The arrangement saw the former publish the latter’s groundbreaking PC first-person shooters Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Half-Life 2.
However, […]

Yes ladies and gents, a new Resident Evil game has been announced for PS3 and XBox360 and first details have appeared from the Famitsu magazine:
Via GamesAreFun

The controls will be based off of Resident Evil 4’s control scheme.
Enemies will have much more character and personality. Takeuchi notes Ganado from RE4 as an example.
Many of the staff […]

Whenever Microsoft releases a new OS, they always promise that it’s faster than their previous one. In this case, it’s the least that Longhorn can be, since it will be 64-bit powered and require an graphics-acceleration card, but recently, in the Worldwide Partner Conference in Minneapolis, they spilled the beans on “exactly” how faster it […]

I use Firefox. I like Firefox. I use RSS. I like RSS. I don’t like using Firefox’s LiveBookmarks. I prefer to use NetNewsWire.
I just found this extension that will let you re-direct the LiveBookmark button in Firefox to an external application (news reader), an RSS extension (sage), or an online feed service (bloglines, newsgator, etc).
Features
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On this day, in 1969, the first man landed on the moon.
In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing.

They have even plotted out the […]

It looks like Blizzard might port some of its vault of games over to portable machines.
All this speculation is running across the internets because in said newsletter Blizzard asked fans how interested they would be with portable versions of their franchises. I think it’s safe to say most gamers would pick up a portable […]

I know Windows having a flaw is probably not news to most of the readers here as this is a constant thing, but it looks like Remote Access is now under the list of things that have been broken. This new flaw is just another way that someone could create a DOS (Denial of Service) […]

ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple’s consumer level laptop, the iBook, will be receiving an update very soon (possibly later today).
In April, DigiTimes reported that laptop manufacturer Quanta had landed a contract to manufacture 14.1-inch widescreen iBooks. The publication added that fellow manufacturer Asustek had snagged a deal to produce 15.4-inch widescreen iBooks in 2006.

As of the 17th of July, number 500 million was downloaded from iTunes.
Amy purchased the 500 millionth song - Mississippi Girl by Faith Hill - and was awarded the grand prize:
500 millionth prize
* 10 iPods choose from any model iPod, iPod mini, iPod U2 or iPod shuffle
* […]

It looks like Firefox is not perfect. As it gains in popularity, so do the list of problems, exploits and now a flawed release.
“Just days after the release of Firefox 1.0.5, Mozilla engineers were busy working to complete version 1.0.6 after API changes were found to have broken third-party extensions. Localized versions of the browser […]