Everyone wants to have wireless in their computers nowadays but you might want to make sure you are buying from someone reputable. The image above is from Engadget and was supposedly being sold in Beijing as a wireless USB adapter. You can obviously see that if the case was closed you wouldn't be able to see the lack of internal circuitry.
It is a toss up
The Windows Vista Team Blog has answered a few questions that a lot of people have been asking. Unfortunately one of the answers does not give a date as to when Vista RC1 (Release Candidate 1) will be released but it does let us know about the availability:
Q: Will Microsoft open testing sign-ups again when RC1 is released?
A: Yes.
Q: Will the Customer Preview Program
If you're looking for an alternative for managing your windows, GroupBar, a free application designed for Windows XP is a good solution. This application makes it easy to group applications together.gHacks gives an example of grouping Firefox, an email client, and your instant messenger together. After they've been grouped together they can be started and minimized from the sidebar at once. This would be useful for
It looks like Mozilla is really trying to catch bugs early on by using Coverity to scan the source code for errors. Mozilla licensed the Coverity tool more than a year ago but they didn't want to say anything until they were sure that it was doing a good job. I can only see this tool as being a good thing as long
Web site programming can get frustrating at times and I notice that I start to write sloppy code when that happens. There are tools out there that will clean up your code (especially for those people creating a site in Microsoft Word...what a nightmare!) but many of them you have to fork out some money for. Code Melt is here to save the day
Okay, some people may not have realized this yet but there is a links bar located in the upper-left corner of a select few Google applications. It is almost like a mini-bookmarks bar that gives you one-click access to some of the most used Google applications like GMail and the Google Calendar. It is nice with the newly added links to Picasa
I have been using Vista Beta 2 for a while now and there is one thing that continues to frustrate me. Microsoft has designed the User Account Control (UAC) to work so perfectly that it will be difficult for the average person to switch the default browser. After installing Vista you can open up the Control Panel and the first thing that I do is switch to the classic view. Opening up the Default Programs
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