Sorry about not doing a blog post lately but am currently in Las Vegas with my Italian daughter Elisa…and finding free Wi-Fi in Vegas is about as easy as finding a slot machine that hits jackpots. Found one at Denny’s (Wi-Fi, that is) way way out on Sahara Blvd. Will be back in Tucson next weekend and will continue my traditional blog updates then. Until then, I hope you find these stories of use:
Hands-on with IE 8: A giant step for Microsoft
Setting aside the issue of speed for a moment, some of the features in Internet Explorer bring it up to what we've come to expect from a browser, and some of them forge ahead. Many of these are borrowed from other browsers, and at least in the case of Firefox, the features can be imported using extensions.
IE8 focuses on usability
The ultimate improvement in browser performance is not making a page load faster but making it unnecessary to load the page at all. That's the guiding principle behind some of the most interesting interface changes in Internet Explorer 8
Why You Want Windows 7
I've been using Windows 7 for months, first as a pre-beta and now as the remarkably stable Beta 1. It's an encouraging update. No wackiness. When I use it, I don't find myself wondering, "Who moved my cheese?" It's sensible and smart—often in hidden and surprising ways. It also seems to be allergic to blue-screen crashes.
All flash drives not created equal | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com
Low-priced SATA flash drives are tempting. But beware: some of them test at an abysmal 2 random writes per second!
Safari hole exploited in seconds at security conference
The security expert who won $10,000 hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes last year won $5,000 on Wednesday by exploiting a hole in Safari in 10 seconds or so.
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