Archive for: October 10, 2007

Firefox is a free open source web browser for Windows Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase It is small fast and easy to use and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer such as the ability to block pop up windows

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Another day, another fabulous conglomerate that we Americans will probably never see in our homeland. On the docket nowadays is HyOn’s multifaceted Xent X3, which features a seven-inch 800 x 480 resolution display, support for MPEG1/2/4, Di…

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Gadgets

Life is rugged for a smoker: not only are you slowing killing yourself from ten different cancers, it’s getting harder and harder to enjoy that rich, deadly tobacco in public venues. Smokers in most big cities are already accustomed to heading external for a nicotine break, and now some are bein…

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The next instance you’re heading down the highway, Easy Rider-style, looking for adventure and what-not, you may plus want to remain in touch with the less rebellious and not-so-tattooed external world. Luckily, the good folks at Parrot have come to your aid with the SK 4000 — a Bluetooth heads…

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Just by two years ago, RIM and Eatoni were at each other’s throats about a SureType predictive-text system, but these days, the two firms are pushing aside any lingering beef as they look to “develop a new text keyboard technology.” Reportedly, the duo “signed an agreement in which Eatoni, which…

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Designed expressly for college students, the new FileMaker Campus Productivity Kit helps students get increasingly organized and be increasingly productive. A free, ready-to-use database solution, the Kit includes five modules, allowing students to manage contacts, organize research and lecture note…

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Two weeks ago I reported the shocking news that Excel Can't Multiply. Later that same day Microsoft's Excel team verified that this is a realio trulio Excel bug. They even identified twelve specific floating point values (out of nine quintillion possible) that display the aberrant behavior. The team has apparently been busy, as they announced a fix today. Eventually it will be pushed out through Automatic Updates, but if you care enough to read this you'll probably want to download the hotfix right away.

To verify the bug, I had created a test workbook that divided 65,535 by each number from 1 to 65,535 and then multiplied the result the same number. Naturally this should wind up where it started, with a value of 65,535. But in over ten thousand cases it displayed 100,000 instead. On another sheet of this workbook I listed formulas that yield each of the twelve "problem" values - for example =65535-2^(-35). I installed the hotfix, rebooted the computer, opened the file and... yes! No more 100,000s! Let's hope there are no other vermin lurking in the code.

With just under a fortnight to go before folks go a-grabbin’ for Sony’s PlayStation Eye, a Senior Producer for SCEA has come forward with a few increasingly lingering details about the peripheral. For starters, Sony apparently has plans to integrate the device into other upcoming titles such as …

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“The principal reason given for the tremendous under-the-hood changes to Windows unveiled early that year in Vista was the need to overtake the safety degree model. Indeed, Vista has proven to be a generally increasingly secure operating system, though some vulnerabilities that apply to ordinary sof…

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“The Dock in Mac OS X is rare in comparison to the user interface of Windows, most Linux distros that emulate the Windows desktop, and preceding versions of the Classic Mac OS. Apple has significantly updated the Dock in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Here’s a look at what’s new and different in our 3-page …

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“This report covers FreeBSD related projects amidst July and October 2007. The sixth EuroBSDCon was held in Denmark in September. The Google Summer of cipher project came to a shut and lots of participants are working getting their cipher merged back into FreeBSD. The bugs in the FreeBSD HEAD depart…

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“Luke Schierer started using Pidgin (then known as Gaim) in 1999, not lengthy after its first release. He officially joined the project in 2001, after being on the IRC channel and helping out for a few several months. He is now one of the core developers. Somewhere amoung his full day job working wi…

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