Microsoft Office 2010 a riposte to the mighty Google
I’m writing this using the beta of Microsoft Word 2010, part of the Office 2010 suite due to hit the shelves later this year. You can try out the whole suite for free, too ‘“ the beta is available for download . So what’s new in Office 2010? A hell … Continue Reading »
VETERANS Q&A with JIM STRICKLAND, #11 for 2010
I served for 7 years active in the U.S. Army Infantry with the 101st Airborne and 1st ID. I did two tours in Yugoslavia/Kosovo/FYROM and my last as an Infantry Squad Leader during 14 months in Operation Iraqi Freedom II. Our unit, Task Force 2-2 … Continue Reading »
Adobe: Flash for Mac is Getting Better ‘” Really!
We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on [the iPhone and iPad] if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen. ‘Flash Player on Windows has … Continue Reading »
New Intel Itanium Offers Greater Performance, Memory Capacity
It may be two years late, but Intel’s ‘Tukwila’ Itanium processor offers twice the number of cores as the current ‘Montecito’ version, significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intel’s high-end Xeon … Continue Reading »
Review: G Drive mobile USB hard drive
So this is just another external hard drive. Yeah, there isn’t anything special about it besides the white case. That’s not to say it’s a bad drive because from what I can see, it’s fine. But it’s clearly meant for those MacBook owners who … Continue Reading »
Linux founder endorses Google’s Nexus One
It’s still not clear how well Google will surmount challenges selling its Nexus One to ordinary folks , but when it comes to endorsement from the tech-savvy realm, it doesn’t get much better than this. Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel programming project, said Saturday not only that he Continue Reading »
C/C++ Software engineer for toolchain development
Software tool development vacancies with top notch client in Bristol. Software professionals and graduates with programming tools (debuggers, compilers, optimizer, etc), RTOS, experience with skills in C/ C++, assembler (asm), TCL/TK/Java/Eclipse … Continue Reading »
Books and Design
Early last year I received a rare book catalog on a CD. I thought: This is it, someone has finally taken full advantage of the technical and design possibilities, broken with the past and stepped into the future. Alas, it was the dealer’s print … Continue Reading »
Gateway XP Recovery Disc
I’m trying to reformat (have Win 7 RC) with my Gateway System Recovery XP Media Center disc, and it’s not doing anything. When I boot up and hit “R” it goes straight to Windows 7 login! I don’t understand this.. I have used this disc on non Gateway … Continue Reading »
Read full review of the Toshiba NB300 »
Whereas Netbooks used to run Windows XP, have N270 processors and 1GB RAM/160GB hard drive as standard, now, Netbooks run Windows 7 Starter, have N450 processors and 1GB RAM/250GB hard drive configurations, with occasional variations. Continue Reading »