Office 2010 Service Pack is Here

Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is Now Available

Microsoft today released the first service pack for Office 2010, Service Pack 1 (SP1), coincidentally alongside the launch of Office 365. In addition to aggregating previous fixes, this service pack includes a number of small changes and fixes.

Supreme Court nixes violent video game law

In a ringing endorsement of free speech and new technology, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning struck down a California law that restricts the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The Supreme Court's ruling (7-2) unambiguously reaffirms that video games, which have become increasingly complex and in some cases more expensive to produce than movies, also qualify for full First Amendment protection.

Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

Unnoticed in the Tuesday release of Firefox 5 was Mozilla's decision to retire Firefox 4, the browser it shipped just three months ago. As part of Tuesday's Firefox 5 release, Mozilla spelled out vulnerabilities it had patched in that edition and in 2010's Firefox 3.6, but it made no mention of any bugs fixed in Firefox 4. That's because Firefox 4 has reached what Mozilla calls EOL, for "end of life," for vulnerability patches. The bottom line for all of us...get Firefox 5!

10 must-have Firefox extensions

Make Firefox the browser you want it to be, with extensions that offer faster, safer, more efficient browsing

Firefox 5 review: Tab perfection

The Firefox developers have been busy working on a couple of new features that are real game-changers for power users. Read on as Jack Wallen explains why he is on the cusp of jumping ship from Chrome to Firefox.

How the Lytro No-Focus Light Field Camera Changes Photography

Fundamentally, a Lytro camera — a light field camera — does away with the single most important and limiting factor of conventional photography: the lens. Instead of focusing, distorting, and cajoling light onto a 2D digital or film plane, light field cameras capture everything that it sees. With conventional lenses, a specific focal point must be chosen — with Lytro, you simply capture every last grain of light data, and then use software to define a focal point.

10 Hidden Features in Facebook

Facebook is the category-killing social network, makes up a quarter of the earth's Web traffic, and can claim nearly three-quarters of a billion users. But many of them don't dig beneath the skin of what the social network can do. There's a ton of hidden Facebook functionality, most of which the average user will never find.

Need a Really Good Read? Byliner Has 30,000 Suggestions

Byliner wants to give you, the intelligent reader interested in magazine-quality articles, a few good reads. This startup is already a publisher of high quality, long-form journalism, and Tuesday, it is launching its community-focused website to find readers something good to peruse.