Archives for: August 2009

Mac OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" takes 72 seconds to boot! Bwuahaha!

David Pogue well known Steve Jobs wannabe has wrote a gushing article on the New York Times over Apple's new pay-ware service pack.He writes:In any case, Snow Leopard truly is an optimized version of Leopard. It starts up faster (72 seconds on a… more »

Nokia moving into the netbook space

This is a pretty swish looking netbook. More details will be announced next month. But it looks like its got a 10 inch screen probably around 1280x720, GPS built in, 3G built in plus 12 hours of battery life weighing in at 1.25kgs and running Win… more »

Spam never ending in World of Warcraft

So I've just logged back into World of Warcraft after having a break for a month. I see the spammers have got a new way to spam links in the game now. more »

Microsoft Security Essentials update

Those using the pre-release version of Microsoft Security Essentials may have noticed a new update being pushed down lately.There's a few couple of changes of note.It now reports itself to the Action Center / Security Center as Microsoft Secu… more »

Questions for "Evolutionists" part 3

I stumbled upon a question on Yahoo Answers today, its related to a bit of confusion creationists have with evolution. The same sort of confusion you can see in my original questions for "evolutionists" post.Soldier for Salvation asks "Why do evolut… more »

Silent Hunter 5 announced

Coming to a computer next year, the fifth installment in the Silent Hunter series, this time we're back in the Atlantic (we should have never left) with the Kriegsmarine.New features:Walk through highly detailed submarines in the new first-pe… more »

Windows 7 RSS feeds don't update automatically

Carrying on from my preview post about how Internet Explorer and Pen Flicks are somewhat broken, next we come to the even more annoying issue.RSS feeds don't reliably update in Windows 7. I haven't worked out exactly what is going on with this one y… more »

Astronomers DO NOT say binoculars help with viewing the Perseids

The BBC was trying to do an article covering the Perseid meteor shower. Well they did a largely fair job on it, well almost.No special equipment is required to watch the shower, which occurs when Earth passes through a stream of dusty debris from th… more »

Pen flicks in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 half broken

Now that Windows 7 has RTMed, it's time to look at where we are exactly from a bug standpoint.Last week we had a lot of fuss over the so-called check disk bug, where check disk would use up all but 50MB of RAM. When was the last time anyone here ran… more »

Quick hands-on with the Zune HD

CNet had a look at the Zune HD last Thursday. The mood seems generally positive. Donald Bell: The Zune's coolest music trick, though, is that it automatically pulls in a gallery of band photos, biographical information, and similar artist recommen… more »

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