Shortly after I wrote the post “Au Revoir, Windows XP, and why you should skip Vista“, there were comments…
Back in 2001, Windows XP was revealed to the world, succeeding disappointing Windows releases. Users of Windows XP hailed it as a new XPerience. The new features that it introduced was quite useful, and the OS as a whole felt solid and stable (more so after Service Pack 2, which improved stability and security).
But all that changes drastically, and on June 30th, Windows XPerience will…
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With the much-awaited launch of Mozilla Firefox 3, extensions, themes and addons will be a problem.
Mozilla has released many alpha, beta and release-candidate versions of Firefox before the big launch, giving developers time to update their addons. Most extensions work flawlessly, and many more can be hacked to work, but themes and other non-extension addons still remain a problem.
Assuming that you are interested in using…
Read full post If you have been active online, reading websites, blogs and/or feeds, you would have known about Firefox 3 download record attempt.
Mozilla, creators of Firefox, wants to set a world record for most downloads of a software on a day. That day happens to be on the release date of Firefox - June 17. Mozilla calculates that this world record will help spread awareness of Firefox more,…
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Excessive leeching by peers is one of the biggest problems when using BitTorrent. One more thing to look out for is selfish and cheating BitTorrent clients like BitComet which limits uploads severely, and BitThief, which does not upload anything. Both of these problems can be solved by blocking offensive peers.
Note that this blocking is effective for the IP address, which means that blocking a peer…
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