TechLog for March, 2009

IE8 available today!

IE8, the latest version of Internet Explorer will be released today for download. This latest version of IE promises to be easier, faster and more secure than ‘ever’. Some of the features of the new browser are pretty neat, although I am all but certain there are plenty of extensions available for Firefox that will [...]

RC1 or not

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Well… I now have a good working version of Windows 7. Everything seems to be running fine on it except audio. When I listen to music using Windows Media Player it seems to be ‘fuzzy’ at times. First I thought it could be the codecs, so I downloaded some new ones but it didn’t seem [...]

Road warriors dream

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If you are like me and seem to be traveling all the time… your laptop can take a beating… even if you try to be careful. I have a Sony Vaio that follows me everywhere… and it has logged more miles on the road than my current car. It is beginning to show some signs [...]

Firefox: Buggy?

I have been using Firefox as my main web browser for several years now… have toyed with Safari, been stuck with IE while doing updates and glanced at Opera while I was bored. Its interesting that Firefox currently holds 45% of the market share and had the most vulnerabilities in 2008.
Vulnerabilities blah…. every single piece [...]