It looks like Google is testing a new homepage that will provide a collapsible "More" link. By selecting the link it will allow the user to select different types of searches.

While this does seem slick I don't think that it will benefit the users in any way. These options are normally located above the search box without the need to click on a menu to get them. Hopefully

It looks like Microsoft is recognizing how interrogating the User Account Control (UAC) in Vista can be. They said There are a LOT of UAC elevation prompts in Feb CTP and still more than we would like in Beta 2.

They said that their goal is to make the UAC prompts pop-up more after you install Vista and then have them learn from your choices. This would mean

Installing Linux has never been so easy for Windows users. Instlux allows Windows users to install either OpenSuse or Ubuntu. It will grab user information from the Windows installation and user it in the Linux distribution so that the conversion to Linux isn't so cumbersome. Here is what the developers say about Instlux: The final goal is not only to provide a way of installing Linux on

Microsoft is going to be feeling the wrath of Adobe because of the "Save As PDF" feature found in Office 2007 Beta (screenshot to the right). Adobe said that Microsoft can either remove the feature completely or they can charge people extra for the added feature. Aren't we already going to be paying enough to get that feature? Isn't the cost of Office 2007

This is a pretty sweet device that this guy came up with. This has to be one of the coolest light switches out there because you never have to touch it in order to turn something on or off.

He also supplies important information, like the circuit diagram, for those people that would like to do this themselves. Now he just needs to find a way to make it the

Firefox 1.5.0.4 was just released yesterday and I posted the Portable Firefox 1.5.0.4 build almost immediately after release. I have had several people email me asking if I was going to release a portable version so I figured I should make a separate posting just for the Portable Firefox so that everyone can find it easily.

For those people who want Portable Firefox then it is simple. All

I was just informed that the Digg site is unavailable. I didn't realize it but I do think that it has only been down for a short time. I have some articles in my feed reader that is from their site and they are pretty recent relative to the rest of my articles in my feed reader. Hopefully they didn't get their servers raided by a bunch