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. Those swivel pieces appear to reveal some I/O ports for the laptop, but I

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. Here is a great list of photos and movies that will give you the run

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

That is actually a pretty impressive list of languages since this is Beta software. I guess they are really trying to expand the range of people that test it.

Windows

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.

Is Microsoft ever going to get a validation system that is fool proof? Maybe, but they will have a lot of hackers to go through in order to get there! I guess we will see how long it will

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. But thanks to the Nike+iPod sensor and receiver, iPod nano also transfers your workout data to the Internet as soon as you sync. Connect your iPod, and iTunes takes over, automatically

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.

It is very important that video card manufacturers release these drivers before the beta testing is opened to the public. If people have troubles installing Vista and getting their video cards to work then they will

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. However, Microsoft does say that in the next few weeks Vista will be released to people who are not subscribers: Windows Vista Beta 2 is now available for IT professionals and developers with MSDN and