PopCap Games, the developers behind fun, casual games like Bejeweled and Plants versus Zombies, released an interesting study today. The results of the study conclude that "once a cheater, always a cheater" seems to hold true when it comes to gamers. The study finds, amongst other things, that those willing to cheat in social games have fewer qualms with cheating in real life. … [Read more...]
More than just a patch with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.2 quarterly update
The quarterly release for Adobe Reader and Acrobat came out today. It resolves critical security vulnerabilities that were put off since the Protected Mode in Reader and Acrobat X should have neutralized the threats. In addition to version 10.1.2 of Reader and Acrobat now being available, version 9.5 was also release for both titles. … [Read more...]
Mozilla agrees to Extended Support Release for Firefox to remain in the enterprise
Mozilla's rapid release schedule that kicks out 8 versions of Firefox a year has caused some consternation amongst enterprise IT Professionals, which came to a head back in July as you might recall. By the release of Firefox 7 an "Extended Support Release" channel was proposed to make Firefox compatible with the workflow of enterprises who needed longer to test software before … [Read more...]
Run Disk Cleanup without calculating to Compress Old Files
In Windows, you can free up some space by running the Disk Cleanup tool. It will remove temporary Internet files, old setup files, and other miscellaneous files taking up space. The Windows XP version of the tool also offers you the option to Compress old files that haven't been used lately to free up more space but it just doesn't seem worth it. Decompressing those files later … [Read more...]
Book Review: Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
Do you know of Mark Russinovich? If you are in IT, you have probably heard of him. He is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the genius behind the SysInternals Windows Utilities like Process Explorer, Autoruns, and many others. He's also the author of such authoritative technical resources like Windows Internals, coming soon in its 6th edition. With Zero Day, Mr. Russinovich … [Read more...]