Archive for November, 2008
WordPress 2.6.5
WordPress today announced the availability of 2.6.5. It includes 1 security fix, and 3 bug fixes. I'm not necessarily one to advocate upgrading to the latest and greatest 'just because', but in instances where security fixes are involved, I'd recommend it. Recently a similar exploit was taken advantage of, and some of those who didn't [...]
Fedora 10 Set to be Released Today
In a recent interview, Linus Torvalds himself said that he uses Fedora 9 on most of his computers. His reason? He wants it to be easy to install and keep up to date. That speaks a lot for Fedora - Linus' thinking is that he would rather be working on the kernel (That's kinda what he does...) than wrestling with the OS that he [...]
Google’s Lively Being Shut Down
Google has announced that it is shutting down it's 3D Virtual World service known simply as Lively. Apparrently it just hasn't taken off quite like they thought it would, and they want to refocus their time and effort on their core search, ads and apps business. I logged into Lively a couple of times to see what it was all about, but I [...]
GMail Has Themes!
For all of you who use GMail, Google has added some visual enhancements. I'd seen reports coming out about it, but it hadn't been enabled on my account at the time. I checked first thing this morning, and there it was! If you go to your GMail settings, you'll see a new 'Themes' tab at the far right. There are quite a few that you can [...]
Songbird – iTunes Killer?
I'm sure by now a lot of you have heard of Songbird. Songbird is Mozilla's music player - it is open source and under active development. It is currently at version 0.7.0, but there is a 1.0 Release Candidate available for download as well. In a nutshell, here are the biggest features offered by Songbird, apart from the obvious fact that it [...]
Psystar’s Counterclaims Dismissed
If you follow Apple's news at all, you'll know that they have sued a company, Psystar, for building computers similar in hardware to Apple's Mac computers, and running Mac OS X on them. Apple's EULA for the OS states that their OS is only licensed to run on Apple's own hardware. Obviously now, Psystar isn't using Apple's hardware to build [...]
ZoneAlarm Pro is Free (Today Only)
ZoneAlarm, who makes one of the most popular personal firewall products on the market, has made their professional firewall product available for free today. You can go grab it here, any time between 9am today (November 18, 2008, Eastern time) and 9am tomorrow. I was able to get my copy, and a serial number. But it took me a couple of tries [...]
Dimdim Offers Free Webinars
Thanks to a post over at Lifehacker, I found a service that offers Webex-like services for free. Well, if you have 20 or fewer attendees, that is. The post I linked to above will take you on a screenshot tour of the service if you'd like to get a feel for it. The reason I wanted to post about this service is because so many companies these [...]
Black Friday 2008 Game Deals
If you're into video games, I've got a treat for you. A friend of mine over at lilphish.com has put together a post of all of the video game deals that are set for Black Friday of this year. Everything from Best Buy to Walmart is covered. If you're looking for a particular game, chances are you'll find it in this list. Check here for the [...]
An Ubuntu 8.10 Review by a Mac User
Bogdan Stroe wrote over at tuxgeek.me about his experience using Ubuntu 8.10 for a couple of days. Now, I'm a huge Linux fan. I have two computers at work, a laptop and a PC. My laptop dual boots between XP and Ubuntu. XP is for work, and Ubuntu is for anything else I ever use the laptop for. My work PC has only Ubuntu on it. My PC at [...]
