Archive for the 'software' Category
Running a pirate version of XP? Prepare to be NAAAAGED
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 27th Aug, 2008
Interesting development this morning on the WGA blog (Windows Genuine Advantage) where one of Microsoft’s senior managers talks about changes they are rolling out to Windows XP Professional, one of the most pirated editions of Windows XP. It seems that there’s a new version of WGA out which will be much more invasive for people [...]
Everything you wanted to know about Windows Recovery Console
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 19th Aug, 2008
photo credit: Br3nda
I spent this evening working on a machine belonging to a friend of mine. It’s been bluescreening (BSOD) on Startup and Safe Mode restarts after loading Mup.Sys. Turns out this is a bit of a false reading as Windows proceeds to load and allocate resources after this and that’s what causes the [...]
Standard protection
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 15th Aug, 2008
I have this policy of always putting on an Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware package on any machine that gets used in my house and gets on my network. I don’t believe in buying packages though, when there are free products available that do exactly the same thing. This is what I use:
Microsoft Defender (formerly Microsoft Antispyware): [...]
Latest version of WordPress: 2.6.1
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 15th Aug, 2008
There’s been a new point release of WordPress dropped to fix some minor bugs with 2.6. Nothing major and in fact, there’s no real need to upgrade unless you have a problem that’s been addressed here. Here’s some information about what it contains:
2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users. Styling of the admin for [...]
Tiny Twitter
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 13th Aug, 2008
I’ve been hearing great things about TinyTwitter. It’s a mobile client for Twitter that lets you keep in touch with all your buddies right off your mobile phone. They’ve just released a new version, here’s the lowdown from WebWorkerDaily:
New features include auto uploading of photos to Twitpic along with your tweet, and a hook [...]
I miss FasterFox
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 12th Aug, 2008
One plugin I really miss on FireFox is FasterFox. The plugin only works up to FF2.0 and there hasn’t been a release for FF3.0. Here’s what I had written about it:
I’ve been using FasterFox for some time now and it has definitely been useful to measure the load time of different websites. See, one [...]
Firefox v3.0.1
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 26th Jul, 2008
I’ve just upgraded to FireFox v3.0.1 which seems like a minor issuefix release. Here’s what has changed:
Firefox 3.0.1 fixed several issues found in Firefox 3.
Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch.
Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did not properly [...]
