Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

While I suggested mainstream techies avoid Flash 10.1 Beta 1, the new beta is much better. 1080p YouTube now works flawlessly in Windows and Mac OS X. It’s actually quite impressive, especially considering Apple won’t let folks author QuickTime X plug-ins. I do have to take this moment to warn Apple that 2014 could very [...]

I will now posit a logical stream of reasoning that explains how Google Chrome OS is, in reality, Android for Desktops. Google Chrome and Android share a common browser platform and screen drawing API. Google Chrome OS uses the same on-screen drawing system as Chrome and Android. Google Chrome OS is Linux combined with Chrome. [...]

Long story short, rather than doing something productive, I’m undoing a mess created by the near-final beta of Trend Micro for Windows 7. I was installing the betas in a random pattern across the machines, to find out which one would give me the most headache. And, we have a winner! Long story short, some [...]

Last week, I noted in an article comments how my Windows Home Server blew up right before Thanksgiving… literally. With that in mind, I returned to my office this morning to back up my main workstation using Vista Complete PC backup. The backup hung. So, not giving up, I went to install Acronis True Image [...]

I’m sure many of you are wondering why I’ve been touting Live Mesh, but haven’t mentioned LogMeIn. And, you have a point; Live Mesh was created as a direct response to LogMeIn. Well, there are a few reasons. First, and foremost, Live Mesh is really the first tech preview that the public can see, for [...]

I like free software. I don’t like when people make it a death wish. I didn’t see this post on the Free Software Foundation blog until this morning. Quite simply, they have started giving false statements and half-truths about Apple and the App Store, in order to promote free and open source software. Quoting their five [...]

Firefox 3.0 is now out. Go grab it and help Mozilla set a world record for the number of downloads in a single day. Firefox 3.0 is a real improvement for both Mac and PC. Both have a dramatically faster download speed, themes that match the operating systems, and the Mac version swapps out older, [...]

LinuxDevices.com said over two years ago “The day when WiFi cards “just work” under Linux may be fast approaching.” Sorry, hasn’t happened yet. This is one of those things that hardcore Linux users scoff at, and everyone else says “exactly!” I have never been able to make a secure Wi-Fi connection (WPA or WPA2) on [...]

Finally, a Linux distribution gets proprietary drivers right. For those of you that aren’t fully versed on GPLv2 vs GPLv3 wars, and all the other open source wars… the Linux community has been having trouble with graphics drivers and various other device drivers. Specifically, they refuse to include drivers made by NVIDIA and ATI, due [...]

I don’t know why Sun has such as slow pace of Java releases. You go to one page, and they say Java 6 Update 5 is the latest. But, do a bit more digging, and I found Update 6. So, go to this page, and scroll down to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) download (there [...]