Microsoft to Push IE8 via Automatic Updates

From the official IE blog over at MSDN, Microsoft has announced that they’ll be pushing IE8 out the door via the Automatic Updates feature of Windows XP, and Vista. Users of the archaic IE6 and the soon to be ancient IE7 will get an ‘optional’ welcome screen asking them...

Windows XP Registry Tweaks

If you’re like me and you still have a few machines running good ol’ reliable and trustworthy (I keed, I keed) Windows XP than registry tweaks and optimization guides for XP are a very handy thing. Sure Vista is the new hotness, and to be really cutting edge I could publish...

Web Desktop Application

Desktop two dot com is another application in a long list of online OS replacements competing to get a piece of this new market. The idea is that instead of your native OS like Windows Vista, Mac OSX or Linux, you’d run Desktoptwo, which is a purely online operating system that...

AllPeers Firefox Extension

Torrent Freak has the good info on AllPeers which is a free extension for Firefox bringing socialness and BitTorrent to the masses. Here’s a video snippet which mentions AllPeers (towards the end) From Wiki… AllPeers uses open source BitTorrent technology to facilitate file...

KDE 4 Beta 3 Video Previews

Here are a few GooTube videos of the upcoming KDE 4 release (these are from beta 3) “This is a video from Gwenview from KDE 4 beta 3. I show off some features… Looks rather cool, imho.” “a view of plasma and kickoff from live cd of kde4 beta 3″ a little...

texty; Widgetizing Text and Images

Even though this post from TC is rather rosy, and the response over at CenterNetworks is a little harsh, I’m going to come down right in the middle here and say that texty has a fighting chance … albeit a very small one. The idea of creating content and being able to embed...