Published June 11th, 2007
in Downloads, Internet, Tech News and Technology.
Apple announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today that the latest version of the Safari Browser (Safari 3) would be made available not only for Mac OS X, but also for Windows XP & Windows Vista-based PCs.
This introduces a fourth viable browser into the latest generation of the “browser wars” with […]
Published May 25th, 2007
in Google, Internet, Tech News, Tech Tips and Web 2.0.
Those clever gals and guys at the Google Labs are at it again. There’s a new enhanced version (the “universal version”) of search which combines results from image, video and text components in a single search result. This began to appear last weekend in search results from most of the major Google […]
Published May 16th, 2007
in Microsoft, Programming and Tech News.
Microsoft has recently released Silverlight 1.0, a .NET-based competitor to Adobe’s Flash animation product.
This is an interesting strategic move as Microsoft is moving into what is clearly established territory for the Flash brand. Microsoft is extending the reach of the new Windows Presentation Foundations (WPF) to the web with a version being called WPF/E […]
Published May 6th, 2007
in Editorials, Tech News and Web 2.0.
Well it’s been 9 whole days now, and I can officially say I’m a Facebook convert.
At last count, there were 116 people on my friends list. All of whom I’ve been friends with at some point in my past and many of whom I haven’t seen in years… a few almost a decade.
Tonight […]
Published May 5th, 2007
in Admin Tools, Microsoft and Tech News.
Last week (while I was too busy watching playoff hockey to post), Microsoft announced that the Beta 3 version of Windows Server “Longhorn” complete with the brand spankin’ new IIS 7.0 would be offered with a “Go-Live” license. This means that the new version can legally be deployed in a production environment prior to […]
Published April 12th, 2007
in Tech News and Technology.
In a somewhat expected move, Apple announced today that their much anticipated next-generation OS will be delayed past the promised “Spring 2007” ship date. Speculation was that the new version of Mac OS X codenamed “Leopard” would be released during Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference in June. Ironically, this message is also […]
Published April 2nd, 2007
in DRM, Music and Tech News.
Today, EMI and Apple announced the availability of the entire 5 Million song EMI catalog on iTunes DRM Free. This is the first major step towards a DRM free music Universe.
This undoubtedly was affected by Steve Jobs’ open letter to the 4 Major RIAA partners, and is an extremely important development in the […]
Published January 31st, 2007
in Microsoft and Tech News.
What kind of a geek would I be if I didn’t at least mention that Microsoft launched Windows Vista and Office 2007 this past Monday. There, I said it. If you want to learn more, listen to Bill.
Published October 28th, 2006
in Google, Internet, Tech News and Web 2.0.
Google has been offering a tabbed interface to the customized content of your Google homepage for some time, but as Miss604 cites in her blog, that feature has been seemingly a bit sporadic… To be honest I’d sort of forgotten all about it.
However, after reading her blog last night and giving some thought to […]