Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer led a presentation today that announced Office 365 was no longer in beta and is now available to purchase. The beta of Microsoft's Office suite as cloud apps was launched last year and has now been released to the web. … [Read more...]
How We Treat Our Computers [Humor]
StickyComics has another observation of our computer usage like the previous Where Did You Meet? and An Update is Available comics. For more great comics (and the alt-text), check out today's comic at www.StickyComics.com. … [Read more...]
How Do I Install A Driver When The Hardware Doesn’t Show Up In Device Manager?
I was working on a computer recently that was getting a fresh install of Windows XP on it. After the Windows setup was completed, it had a few unknown devices. One of those devices was the network card, so I downloaded the driver from HP and moved it over to the computer by USB figuring I could download the rest directly once I could get the NIC installed. I ran through the … [Read more...]
Summing Up The Browser Wars
The browser wars are summarized nicely with this drawing from The Shoze Blog. In addition to the blog, you can find more of their works on DeviantArt. … [Read more...]
What Google Knows About You And How It Targets Its Ads For You
Have you ever had an ad come onto the TV or radio with an opening line like "Are you a 55 year old woman that took Metabolife between 2001 and 2005?" Since they asked a question, the polite thing to do is to answer them. I can usually tell them 'no' 99% of them time. Despite responding with 'no', they continue to waste their time and mine for the next 30 seconds, minute, or … [Read more...]