As you have probably heard by now, Microsoft has bought Lookout Software. Lookout has written an add-in for Outlook which allows you to easily search your PST files, much faster than Outlook’s built in search allows you to do (see my previous post for more infomration on it). Since that time, Lookout has released a […]

WebReference has a review up of WestCiv’s latest and greatest piece of software, Layout Master. For those having trouble with CSS layouts this software seems to be your saving grace. I know John and Maxine personally (on an email level) and they are some great people so I think it would be cool just to […]

Jakob Nielsen’s partner in crime, Don Norman (the one who has some sense in his head), has released the news that he is advising Microsoft on Longhorn. Interested to see what comes out of this and if anything at all comes out of it.

Norman, who has written several books on usability, was Apple’s design guru […]

Introducing Maxthon. Not a transformer… but still pretty cool. (p.s. - it’s a browser)

ExtremeTech has a review of the recently released VMWare Workstation.

Many folks are curious about Linux and have wondered whether or not they should try it out. Well, wonder no more. VMWare makes it very easy to run Linux right on your Windows desktop. And, if you’re feeling adventurous, you can even try running the beta […]

“Technology innovation has happened much, much more from commercial software developers than from open source,” he said, adding that big companies also have marketing muscle and resources to support their products. “Who’s going to stand up and support open source? At least, with us, it’s clear who you have to come and pound down on. […]

…and the world will have to reinstall all their apps again…

Here are scome screen shots of the beta for Visual C# 2005 Express, “Express” signifiying that it’s a single-language IDE rather than the full-blown multiple language Visual Studio.

The Farm has them, you want them. Check em out.

Well this is an extreme measure, but might be very useful for some IT departments or those people who constantly have to fix their parents’ computers because of viruses and whatnot.

While viruses and Trojans have been around for years, this particular attack was new because it used several vulnerabilities at once, and it didn’t require […]

Apple has released a preview of its Rendezvous technology for Windows 2000 and XP. There are also releases for Java, and Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD
Rendezvous technology is now available on Windows 2000 and XP. This preview release includes full link-local support, allowing Windows machines to discover advertised HTTP and FTP servers using Internet Explorer. It […]

The mouse was a great invention. It was, without a doubt, one of the catalysts that moved computing from the lab to the office and home.
However, experienced users often find that the mouse sometimes gets in the way and slows us down. Moving a hand from keyboard to mouse breaks the flow of many operations.
OS […]

Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users – not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends.

Looks like this could be the year of VoIP (yeah I know that is every […]

Good article on Wired about how Windows XP mangles wifi while attempting to make it easier to use.

One of Windows’s largest faults, at least as far as geeks and power users are concerned, is its CLI. While the CLI of NT/2k/XP is significantly more powerful than that of Windows 9x (don’t even get me started with that horrible thing), it looks like Longhorn is going to get a significant upgrade in this […]

Why? Because you can I guess and it would make for a nice dev machine if need be. If you decide to use it host a whole website well, let me know about it as I would be curious to see that.

Author Dan Wellman explains what the Apache HTTP web server is and how it […]

This is easily the most indepth take on a case mod that I have ever seen. You owe yourself a favor to go check this out and realize your geek score is nowhere near this guy’s.

Project Goliath began in my head nearly a year ago. I’d been wanting to get into watercooling, because its quiet, […]