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BBC reports on Microsoft’s new free security offering.
In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from the second half of next year.
The new software, code-named Morro, will be a no-frills program suited to smaller and less powerful computers.
I don’t have a Flip camera, but certainly have thought they could be useful.
MacWorld reports on the release of the Flip Mino HD.
Pure Digital Technologies on Wednesday announced the release of the Flip MinoHD, which it bills as the world’s smallest HD camcorder. The Flip MinoHD can store up to 60 minutes of HD video.
Andy Ihnatko (from MacBreak Weekly) has written an informative blog post comparing the Flip Mino HD and the Kodak Zi6.
I’m actually planning a rather ambitious comparison of cheap HD cameras in the next week or so. But there’s certainly been an enthusiastic — bordering on, well, “annoying” — amount of interest in a direct comparison between the Mino HD and its natural commercial enemy: the Kodak Zi6.
I think I might get one.
Finally after remembering to register the application on the phone I was able to use JoikuSpot in the wild!
I am really pleased that I made the upgrade. I can now check e-mail and use Twitterfon. I only checked with an iPod touch, so I still need to check it works with a laptop.
Sorry due to a server failure we have been offline since last night, but we’re back…
Quite amusing.
After using JoikuSpot Light for a while now and being very pleased with the ease of use and getting my devices online. Despite the impact it has on the battery life of my Nokia N95 I decided to upgrade to the Premium version.
The Light version only really does internet, it doesn’t allow e-mail for example, whereas the Premium version does.
The Premium version also doesn’t have a splash or landing page, which means I am hoping it will work with the Nokia N810.
Not tried it yet, but after paying for it, downloaded and passed ito the N95, I needed to reboot the phone.
If you have the time, the energy, the MacBook and a Windows 7 disk, you can have some fun too, according to PC Magazine Labs.
Here we are sitting in the PC Magazine Labs, and it occurs to us: We’ve got a shiny new Macbook Pro and an early build of Windows 7 on disc, so why not attempt to use one to run the other?
Would you believe that three billion photographs have been uploaded to Flickr? And not all by me!
Wrote about this on e-Learning Stuff.
Well it had to happen one day!
According to a report from PCWorld Magazine WPA has been broken.
Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks.
Read more.
On my old G4 PowerBook, changing the battery was a piece of cake. Shut the lid, wait until the light glowed, then remove the flat battery and replace it with a fully charged battery, lift the lid and back to work…
With the MacBook Pro you can’t do this… in theory it is suppose to suspend the computer and save the current state if you remove and replace the battery in the same way as I use to with the G4 Powerbook. However from my experience it is very much a 50/50 chance that what will actually happen is that replacing the battery will result in needing to boot the MacBook Pro. Of course this means that any unsaved work is not saved.
Annoying.
The problem is that (as far as I am aware) there is not a way to set the state of suspension manually, you have to let the computer do it.
As a result I do like the hibernation mode that you find on Windows laptops, very easy to replace the battery then, though it can take an age to resume from hibernation.