The other night I was in the middle of doing some work on my Flickr account when all of a sudden it went down for maintenance. I knew it was going to happen because they notified users in advance, but I had just forgotten.
Fedora 7 is another Linux distribution which is managed by the Red Hat team. Unlike Red Hat, Fedora doesn’t cost a dime to use, and is really making some nice strides in the graphics area.
If your spam box feels a little lighter today, now you’ll know why. One of the top spammers in the world was recently arrested.
The mobility that laptops offer these days continues to decrease as users want a more powerful computer to take with them. It is almost becoming second nature to lug around a notebook computer that weighs 8, 9, or even 12 pounds! Would you be willing to compromise some flexibility for an extremely ultra-mobile computer?
There are some big things going on at the D Conference, with the highlight being the meeting of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for a chat conducted by Walt Mosberg and Kara Swisher. Before I get to talking about the main event, lets take a look at some of the other things that had been going on there.
One of the largest complaints among Apple TV fans and critics alike is that there has been no way to access other video content on the web. Only media from a users iTunes library is available.
Google is taking applications offline with a new project called Gears. It’s an open source browser extension that’s available for Internet Explorer or Firefox that enables online applications to come offline. The first example of this is Google Reader. For Opera and Safari users, they’re workin’ on it, but it’s not quite ready yet.
When it comes to PDF documents I’m not really one that likes to read them online. If they’re only about 10 or 15 pages I’ll go ahead and print them out to read later on when I’m away from my computer. However, some people remove the ability to print a PDF when it is created.
The Windows Live Writer team just posted the Beta 2 which is now available for you to download. It has a handsome list of new features, but nothing I hadn’t really seen in a blog editor before:
A new Firefox vulnerability has been discovered, and this time it is quite a doozy. It affects many different extensions including Google Toolbar, Google Browser Sync, Yahoo Toolbar, Del.icio.us Extension, Facebook Toolbar, AOL Toolbar, Ask.com Toolbar, LinkedIn Browser Toolbar, Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar, and PhishTank SiteChecker.
