I finally got FireFox 3 installed this morning, and I’m giving it a good workout. There were a couple minor annoyances in plugin installations. I had to manually find some of my fave plugins (with one exception noted below) on the mozilla.com site, and upgrade them one by one, since the updater doesn’t seem to [...]

Well, I hope they got their Guinness record. Me, I downloaded Firefox 3, installed, and ended up uninstalling, realizing NONE of the plugins I use every damn day will work in FF3. I enjoyed it for all of five minutes. Though I will say this, that “awesome bar” appears more annoying and distracting than awesome. [...]

An acquaintance, who is an attractive young woman, is having a problem with her relatively new Dell Laptop, purchased at the start of the school year, and is now showing a fairly large black spot on the screen, right in the middle. My friend, Jesse, who is computer savvy, was on the phone with me [...]

Do you believe this? First I read this article in the Washington Post about DNS Error Redirection and the insecurity of it since the ads are served by a third party, resulting in all kinds of security issues. They say the security issues are fixed. There are, however, other ramifications to this. In reading the [...]

Story on XP End of Life from Computer World says that Mainstream Support will be in place until April 2009, and security patches until April 2014. This is important when put into the context of the next windows version after Vista, which will be going modular and moving to a subscription model. Which means being [...]