Dropbox hits two million Windows, Mac and Linux users
By David M Williams
Earlier this month cloud storage startup Dropbox celebrated its first anniversary, and has now hit another milestone with its two millionth user. Dropbox is a…
We give up on Internet Explorer say Google Wave team
By David M Williams
Google's new Chrome Frame product is touted as an unobtrusive way for web apps to use Chrome’s rendering and JavaScript engines within Internet Explorer. Yet,…
Google Chrome Frame to take over Internet Explorer
By David M Williams
Interested in Chrome but still just find Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to be your first instinct? With Google's latest product you can still surf merrily…
Robber leaves Facebook logged in at scene of crime
By David M Williams
In a sign of how compelling social networking has become, Jonathan G. Parker of Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania stopped to log into Facebook - on the computer in…
Microsoft launches new pre-Windows 7 anti-Linux offensive
By David M Williams
Microsoft has been making steps to educate U.S. retailers that Linux is a limited operating system that works with only few peripherals or online services,…
Not all search engines are created equal and while Google has been the undisputed king for some years, perhaps Bing or even long-time Yahoo! is…
CodePlex accepted by Linux, open source community: Microsoft
By David M Williams
Microsoft’s own SourceForge-like repository of open source projects, CodePlex, celebrated its third anniversary recently. According to Sara Ford, CodePlex program manager, the site is accepted…
One great tool power users in the Windows world have long enjoyed is Microsoft’s unsupported TweakUI. A range of similar Tweak utilities have followed for…
The dark side of open source software is Stoned
By David M Williams
When rootkits are mentioned the things which come to mind are generally hackers, Trojans, even Sony BMG. Now you can add open source software to the…
What do you do when Windows will not boot and cannot repair itself from the installation CD? You fire up a Linux Live CD!
