Wonderfully ambiguous title, isn’t it? Usually, this headline is somewhere above the newest processor or graphics chip, proclaiming that everyone will totally have one of them in a few years. More often than not, however, it ends up being an absurdly overpriced part that hardcore users will have in...

For those of you up late late Sunday night (in North America) you may have received a special treat! Firefox version 3.6 RC2 was released on the 17th of January, bringing the new iteration of the popular web browser one step closer to completion. The Mozilla Foundation claims their latest release is “considered...

The rumor mill has been running wild this morning about the upcoming Nvidia Fermi GPU. The graphics chip which already shares so many similarities with Intel’s now nearly defunct Larrabee GPU, (full programmability, multi-cored operation), is also now sharing Larrabee’s core feature, delay. According...

Microsoft’s got a lot going for it lately. Windows 7 came out to resoundingly positive reviews, the gaming division posted a second-straight year of profit, and several promising brands (Surface, Windows Phone, Zune) show that the company stuck its middle finger up to the economic climate and pushed...

This month, there are big things happening in the world of operating systems. Microsoft is releasing its hugely anticipated Windows 7, while Canonical will trot out its latest Ubuntu release, 9.10, or the Karmic Koala as it’s known to its friends. At this moment in time I have installed on my PC...

The Microsoft Store, pre-alpha build. Located in Scottsdale and Mission Viejo lies the beginnings of the first ever Microsoft retail store. Is this exciting? Not really. But at least now, Microsoft fans can tell Apple fans that they have their own store too, and Apple fans can reply with “The Apple...

In the constant see-saw of technology, I found myself using Google Chrome as my primary web browser after having used Firefox for a couple of years (and previous to that, the venerable Internet Explorer). In using Chrome, I loved the speed and the simplicity, but after a few months of usage, I found...

Google has added its name to the list of browser makers fighting Microsoft. They join Mozilla and Opera on the case. Google has a lot more money than both the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software RSA combined, meaning that the EU now has a level competitor. Despite Chrome’s relatively...

I have become a Google Chrome fan.  I started using the browser as an experiment for a few weeks, and haven’t looked back since (I chronicled the switch on my blog).  However, one thing I started to notice is that I would fairly frequently click on a page on my laptop (connected via wireless,...

A while back, a colleague wrote about the joys of Launchy, the excellent keystroke / application launcher for Windows.  I use Launchy every day at work on my Windows XP notebook.  But on my home Vista notebook, I’ve grown attached to another keystroke launchy, by the name of Start++. Start++,...