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Monday, 12 January 2009 |
Multi-touch technology, made famous by the Apple iPhone, is already
available on PCs through HP’s TouchSmart tx2 notebook, and will come to
many more notebook, tablet and desktop PC screens throughout 2009, well
in time for Windows 7 and Linux.
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
All weekend as Windows 7 keys were hard to come by, people
tried accessing Microsoft’s TechNet site to access their unique
activation keys. Originally with a 2.5m download limit, people expected
keys to go fast, but with that limit removed, it appears that the
TechNet issued keys are generic – and I’ve used one to activate Windows
7 beta 1, so I know it works!
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
If you’ve been worried about getting access to the Windows 7 beta 1
download because of all the overwhelming demand and Microsoft’s
publicized 2.5 million download limit, you can rest easy – the limit
has been removed until January 24.
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
Windows 7 beta 1 can now be downloaded from Microsoft’s official Windows
7 site once more, after having been delayed for at least 24 hours due
to “overwhelming demand”.
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
If you’ve been trying to get a Windows 7 beta 1 activation key without
success, the method over at Neowin just started working for me after
hours of trying.
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Saturday, 10 January 2009 |
Do you have a Dell Mini 9 netbook and you want to try out the latest
Windows 7 beta 1? Here’s what you need to check first – no matter which
computer you are using.
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Saturday, 10 January 2009 |
Microsoft has seemingly underestimated demand for the official Windows
7 beta 1 download, launching its download program late and then pulling
the download due to “overwhelming demand”. Even so, direct download
links are available – and they’re working!
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Sunday, 28 December 2008 |
Microsoft’s long-awaited Windows 7 beta 1 “7000” build ISO torrent is
finally available for the world to download, but not officially and
clearly not from Microsoft. No, if you want Windows 7 beta 1 right now,
the only way to get it is to “break the law” – and thousands seem to be
doing just that, unable to wait the few extra days before Microsoft
opens the floodgates!
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Thursday, 25 December 2008 |
It’s already started happening – fake ISO torrent files are appearing
at TorrentReactor.net in an attempt to fool those eager to get their
hands on the official beta 1 “7000” build of Microsoft’s new Windows 7
operating system.
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Thursday, 25 December 2008 |
With a select group of beta testers around the world supposedly already
using the Windows 7 7000.0.081212-1400 official beta 1 build, global
impatience over the non-appearance of a torrent is reaching boiling
point – at least for some - but no download is yet available, and people are getting impatient!
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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 |
Although due to begin on or before the 24th of December 2008,
Australia’s draconian Internet content filter trials have now been
postponed until mid-January 2009, with peer-to-peer and BitTorrent
traffic filtering also set to be performed. Here’s an idea – delay to
trial all right – but to mid-Jan, 2099!
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
Faulty third-party battery testing software is at the root of claims
that Dell is shipping a 3-cell, 24Wh battery in its Dell Mini 9
netbooks, says Dell, which claims it has always shipped a 4-cell 32Wh
battery – as advertised.
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
No doubt set to issue a similar statement for New Year’s Eve SMS text
messages, Telstra says that Christmas Day SMS text messaging and video
calling will break all previous records. Telstra is also taking the
opportunity to plug its Next G network, BigPond digital media products
and showcase how many staff it will have on hand to help on Christmas
day, all of whom are presumably getting paid a lot to postpone their
Christmas to December 26.
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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
Reports have put the Windows 7 beta release date at January 5th, 7th
and the 13th, while a so-called “publishing error” saw a “Windows 7
beta” download link appear at Microsoft’s Windows 7 site. C’mon
Microsoft, when will you release the Windows 7 beta?
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Sunday, 21 December 2008 |
Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan
infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product
removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan
was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected
– despite being infected.
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Saturday, 20 December 2008 |
With lithium ion battery technologies being advanced, designed and
manufactured in Asia, a new US “alliance” of “leading US battery and
advanced materials companies” and “one of the country’s largest
national laboratories” is being formed to ensure advanced batteries are
designed and manufactured in the US, so US companies aren’t dependent
on foreigners.
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Saturday, 20 December 2008 |
The latest version of Novell’s Linux distro, openSUSE 11.1, has been
released, with 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates to
GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, a new license and plenty more.
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
Solid state drives (SSDs) keep on challenging regular mechanical hard
drives in storage capacity, with the industry’s first 512GB SSD set to
be showcased at January 2009’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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