Is Windows Vista Faster Than XP?
January 31, 2007
www.tomshardware.com - Our Windows Vista coverage began with a hands-on diary by MobilityGuru’s Barry Gerber, followed by an assessment on gameplay under Windows Vista by graphics presidente Darren Polkowski, as well as a complete feature rundown of Vista. Barry took the new operating system and its look & feel with a grain of salt, while Darren was disappointed because OpenGL support was dropped along the way, meaning that Windows Vista currently offers horrible performance for graphics applications utilizing the Open Graphics Library…
Bill Gates on the Daily Show promoting Windows Vista
January 30, 2007
www.youtube.com - In case you missed it, here is Bill Gates on the daily show. He talks about Windows Vista, jetpacks, IPTV, robots, and other topics. He’s no Steve Jobs, but I know you want to see this.
New Gmail features!!! Will Google Docs replace Microsoft Office?
January 29, 2007
fugitivethought.com - Gmail users can now take advantage of Google’s web word processor when viewing attached documents or composing email. Sounds simple and unremarkable, but Google’s products are now becoming mature enough to compete with Microsoft. Follow this digg for screen shots, discussion of features, and some history in the making.
New PuTTY 0.59 Beta
January 29, 2007
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk - Tons of new features in beta 0.59 (released 2007-01-24)….
YouTube to Share Revenue With Users
January 27, 2007
hosted.ap.org - Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users.
Your New iTunes PC! Listen and Share your Apple iTunes Music from ANYWHERE!
January 26, 2007
www.avvenu.com - The “beta” version of the Avvenu Music Player lets you share up to 250 songs. When you choose playlists from your PC to share, the playlists and songs are automatically copied to Avvenu’s secure media center for reliable, streaming playback. Once your songs and playlists are copied to Avvenu
’s media center, you don’t even have to leave your PC powe
Official Google Blog: A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube
January 25, 2007
googleblog.blogspot.com - In November, we officially closed our acquisition of YouTube, and since then we’ve received a number of questions about what will happen next. The summary is that Google Video and YouTube will continue to play to their respective strengths. But here’s a bit more detail:
Dell Begins Selling Desktops Without Windows Pre-installed
January 24, 2007
www.dell.com - The n Series Desktops comes with a Pentium D or Athlon X2, and an unformatted hard drive ready for Linux, BSD, or any other free OS (or heck, even Windows if you want)!
FreeNAS makes it easy to add storage to home networks
January 23, 2007
servers.linux.com - FreeNAS is a small, powerful, full-featured implementation of FreeBSD as a network-attached storage device. It’s powerful enough to be used in the enterprise, but it’s friendly enough so that even a typical home office user can take advantage of it.
Inkjets to Printing Muscle and Bone
December 20, 2006
www.technologyreview.com - Ink-jet printers allow tissue engineers to control cell development and could one day be used to construct complex cellular structures.
