If where you work has an agreement with Microsoft (or Micrsoft as the posters in Wal-Mart spell it), you could benefit as an employee by being able to purchase a super-cheap copy of Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows or Office 2008 for Mac through Microsoft's Home Use Program. For $9.95 and your employment at a company with this agreement, you can get Office Professional Plus … [Read more...]
Microsoft No Longer Supports Windows Installer Cleanup Utility
I was surprised to find out that Microsoft is no longer offering its Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. The tool is typically known for being able to remove .msi installs after they've been corrupted and the normal Add/Remove Programs won't work. The odd thing about removing the tool is that I've been using it on an almost daily basis recently. We had some Java deployments that … [Read more...]
Adobe Releases Quarterly Update 9.3.3 for Reader/Acrobat
Adobe has accelerated its quarterly update for its Reader and Acrobat applications from the planned July 13th to today, June 29th. The reason behind the early release is a critical vulnerability announced June 4th that has been seen in the wild that could allow the program to be crashed and an attacker to take control of the system. Adobe Flash Player was patched on June 10th … [Read more...]
On Crash Protection and Farmville the Reason Behind Firefox 3.6.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 shipped June 22nd with a feature dubbed Crash Protection as well as a number of security and stability issues. From the Firefox 3.6.4 Release Notes: Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If a … [Read more...]
Free eBook Readers – Read eBooks on your PC, Mac, Netbook, iPad, and More
It's been a while, but I have another guest post published over at Freeware Genius. The topic of this article covers the free software that Amazon and Barnes & Noble provide that allows you to read their eBooks on your PC, laptop, Mac, iPad, Blackberry, with more promised soon. It's a great convenience that you can explore eBooks without having to get locked into a single … [Read more...]