Posted on March 18, 2008 by Dan
Opting for an SSD (Solid-State Disk) add quite a bit to the price of a notebook computer so its better, right?
Its not looking that way, especially if this story is true.
According to an analyst at Avian Securities, an unnamed “large computer manufacturer” is having 10 - 20 percent of their notebooks equipped with an SSD [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by Dan
Today Microsoft has officially released Service Pack 1 for their Windows Vista operating system.
According to Microsoft, “SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards.”
For all the details check out the Notable Changes page here.
Its not showing up in [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by Dan
Apple has just released an update to their Safari web browser, bring it to version 3.1.
They claim that Safari is the fastest web browser around, able to load web pages 1.9x faster than IE7 and 1.7x faster than FireFox 2, and run JavaScript up to 6x faster than any other browser.
In addition to improved performance, [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by Dan
Some people like the new look and feel of Office 2007, some don’t. Those that don’t really, really hate it.
Microsoft doesn’t give you a way change the look and feel back to, say, Office 2003, but an add-on I just found by Addintools looks like it will do the trick.
Classic Menu for Office 2007 is [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by Dan
While Adobe Flash Lite has been available for Windows Mobile for some time now, it has been something that users of Windows Mobile devices would have to download and install themselves. That’s about to change, though.
Microsoft has announced that they have licensed Flash Lite and Reader LE for use in future Windows Mobile add-ons for [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by Dan
It seems like every few months we hear about another data breach that results in peoples personal information being stolen.
Have you ever been curious what some of the biggest breaches have been in terms of the number of people affected?
FlowingData has a timeline showing the 10 largest data breaches since the year 2000 and when [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by Dan
Amazon thinks so and have listed March 18th as the release date on their Vista comparison page.
DailyTech agrees and says that the final version of SP1 will be available for download tomorrow and says that retail versions will be in stores on Wednesday.
DailyTech got their info directly from a “Microsoft spokeswoman” so look for SP1 [...]
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