Archives for September 5th, 2006

26,000+ Members Petition Facebook’s News "Feed"

If you haven't heard by now, the ultra popular social network Facebook (generally for college students) got a pretty major facelift.

September 5th, 2006
26,000+ Members Petition Facebook’s News "Feed"

Download OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 RC1

OpenOffice.org has placed 2.0.4 RC1 on their FTP servers for both Windows and Linux users. I tried looking for some information on exactly what bugs they have fixed but I came up empty handed.

September 5th, 2006
Download OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 RC1

Roxio Beats Nero To Vista Compatibility

I've tried numerous times to install Nero on Vista and I just can't seem to get it to work. Unfortunately the developers know that it isn't currently compatible but I am still waiting for a version that works.

September 5th, 2006
Roxio Beats Nero To Vista Compatibility

Microsoft Officially Announces Vista Pricing

About 1-week ago Amazon posted some pricing information for Windows Vista and that must have pushed Microsoft to officially release the pricing information. From the looks of it there aren't really any changes but here is the pricing that they have now provided:

September 5th, 2006
Microsoft Officially Announces Vista Pricing

Let Opera Power Your Devices

The Internet is everywhere we go but the thing that we lack is a way to harness its power. Opera is looking to conquer that problem by releasing Opera for Devices. We knew that they were working on a browser for Nintendo DS but I was really surprised to see all of the other devices that they want to run Opera on:

September 5th, 2006
Let Opera Power Your Devices

Windows Demonstrations That Have Gone Wrong

It is safe to say that most tech savvy people have seen the Windows Vista speech recognition demonstration gone wrong, but how often has something like this happened in the past? I went searching for other videos to see what I could find and I managed to scrounge up a few good ones:

September 5th, 2006
Windows Demonstrations That Have Gone Wrong

Themes For Your iPod – Make It Look Like Firefox

I never realized that you could actually theme your iPod until I accidentally came across it when I was searching around for iPod skins. The list of different themes is quite long but the one that really caught my attention is the Firefox theme. Not only do they have the standard theme pictured above but you can also see that they offer the Noia theme.

September 5th, 2006
Themes For Your iPod – Make It Look Like Firefox

CyberNotes: Greasemonkey Scripts That Save You Time

A few months ago Max got me into Greasemonkey and I didn't realize the power that it had until I really started to search for scripts. For those unfamiliar with Greasemonkey it is an extension for Firefox that will let you add functionality to Web sites. You can do just about anything from changing the way eBay looks all the way to using Google Maps in Flickr.

September 5th, 2006
CyberNotes: Greasemonkey Scripts That Save You Time