Pictures of the $100 laptop prototype have finally been made available. This laptop is for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign that started last year. It looks like it is running Fedora Linux and the pieces that swivel on each side (near the top) make it look a little devilish.
Screenshots of Office 2007 and Vista have blanketed the web today since both of those hit another milestone: Beta 2. So you may think I am going to post a screenshot gallery, but why would I do that? There are hundreds of photos already out there.
Windows Media Player 11 was just made available last week and it is now available in other languages besides just English. Here is a list of languages that they currently have available:Arabic Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Hungarian Italian Norwegian Swedish
It looks like another Windows Genuine Advantage workaround/crack has been found. 9Down has published a simple file overwrite that will work with both Windows Update and Microsoft Download.
It looks like Apple is teaming up with Nike to turn your iPod Nano into a calorie calculating machine. That's right, here is how it works: Any mere pedometer can show you stats while you run.
Finally! Vista users get video card support from ATI and nVidia. The only downside is that not every video card is supported but this is a good step.
Windows Vista Beta 2 is currently available to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. Unfortunately they did not make it publicly available like they did for Office 2007 Beta 2.
Microsoft has made Office 2007 publicly available and they will give you the serial that you need to use it. You just have to fill out a quick survey and they will give you the keys for every Office 2007 product that you want: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc...
ActiveWin has stated that they have insider information that leads them to believe that Beta 2 of Office 2007 and Vista will be released today.
It looks like WinFuture has screenshots of Vista 5384 and the background on the system says WinHEC. Yesterday WinHec attendees found out that the bag of things they received lacked the Vista DVD. The screenshots, however, might mean that it will be released to attendees very soon. Bill Gates is supposed to address Beta 2 of Office 2007 and Vista this morning so we might hear more information then.
Opera 9 Beta 2 has now been released. It has significant improvements in stability and in the widgets since the previous Beta 1. I am happy that they got rid of the faded screen that the widgets use to always appear on.
It looks like Google is getting closer to launching their statistics service for blogs. Yes, Google does already have Google Analytics but it has a bunch of statistics in it that bloggers don't really need. That is where Measure Map comes into play.
An anonymous commenter in a previous article pointed out that Suse 10.1 has 3D capabilities. The screenshot to the right shows this in action and it looks quite impressive with how it handles the multiple desktops. What if you want to see all of the desktops simultaneously? Simple, just hold down Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow and the cube will unfold itself to display all of the virtual desktops!
