Best Buy to Launch $249 Acer Notebook – Best Buy is gearing up to sell its lowest-advertised-priced laptop ever. The exact model will be revealed tomorrow, but we do know that it will be a $249.99 Acer laptop, and that it will have an Intel Celeron 900 CPU, 2GB of memory, and a 160GB hard drive.
My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer – I had an ugly run-in with scareware last night, but I’m not sure what left me more annoyed: The dreaded Antivirus Pro 2009 scareware or McAfee, my anti-virus software provider.
Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony – Windows 7 and Ubuntu, despite their opposing missions, can get along like best pals on a single computer. Here’s how to set up a dual boot system that lets you enjoy the best of both worlds in perfect harmony.
Windows 7 design ‘not based on Mac OS X’ – Microsoft has taken the unusual step of admitting that one of its spokesmen didn’t know what he was talking about. Microsoft has called a statement made by one of its own spokesmen “inaccurate and uninformed”.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Review – It’s set to be one of the biggest selling games of all time. Is it one of the greatest?
Microsoft cuts off gamers without trial – Without warning, thousands of Xbox Live members around the world suddenly found themselves unable to access the service. The reason these gamers have been cut off is for breaking their licence agreement with Microsoft by ‘modding’ the consoles to play pirated or unauthorised games.
Bing joins forces with Wolfram Alpha – Microsoft’s search engine has teamed up with the question and answer-based web tool Wolfram Alpha in a bid to rival search giant Google. Microsoft will use the web tool Wolfram Alpha to help provide results for its search engine Bing.
Google Adds ‘Lock’ Feature to SafeSearch – Google added an additional security layer to its search functionality Wednesday, allowing users to lock-in SafeSearch on their accounts so questionable material will not pop up.
Off Topic:
The 12 psychological stumbling blocks of looking for a job – In career advice, you’ll get tips for writing the best resume, crafting the perfect cover letter, and networking with other professionals. But here is a discussion of the psychological stumbling blocks a job searcher can face and what to do about them.
Top 5 car technologies – This millennium has seen an incredible blossoming of new technologies in automobiles. We’ve seen most of them, and settled on the five we find the most useful.
7 Things “Good Parents” Do (That Screw Kids Up for Life) – It seems like it’s close to impossible to raise a normal child these days, what with the violent video games and the 4chan and the childhood obesity. But if the latest research is to be believed, even the good stuff we thought we were doing for our kids is ruining them.
MPAA shuts down entire town’s muni WiFi over a single DL! – The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town’s municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie.
Today’s Quote:
“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”.
– Max Planck
Today’s Free Downloads:
XP Tweaks Unlocked – Overview: XP Tweaks Unlocked is an excellent application that any Microsoft Windows user (whether beginner or advanced) will find useful when an improved Microsoft Windows experience is wanted.
BlackBox Password Manager – BlackBox Password Manager is a lightweight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows which will remember all your passwords.
MozillaCacheView – MozillaCacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape Web browsers, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: URL, content type, file size, last modified time, last fetched time, expiration time, fetch count, and server name.
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‘7 Things “Good Parents” Do (That Screw Kids Up for Life) – It seems like it’s close to impossible to raise a normal child these days, what with the violent video games and the 4chan and the childhood obesity. But if the latest research is to be believed, even the good stuff we thought we were doing for our kids is ruining them.’
Hey Bill,
This is great. Thanks.
Hey Pochp,
It’s a crazy world!
Bill