Squeezing My Mind Grapes

I don't use Firefox as much as I used to. Chrome is just so much faster that I almost invariably turn to it first. But Firefox's ric...

...comes to you courtesy of the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line train station at Clark & Lake. At least it wasn't a Blue S...

I'm very pleased with Windows 7 and I have it on most of my home computers. But as the release of Microsoft's latest OS draws near I...

A new utility designed to replicate the MacOS's new Stacks feature got to thinking about the way I use my desktop. It suddenly occurre...

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Boing Boing Gadgets links to a Washingpost blog which complains about Microsoft quietly installing a Firefox extension without permission....

Image by Mimi_K via Flickr I have installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate on two computers now and for the most part, it works very well....

Geek.com reports on a "new" exploit found by F-Secure. I put the word new in quotes because it's really a very ancient explo...

About two hours ago I inserted my Windows 7 Release Candidate disk into my spare laptop's CD-Rom tray and for the most part I'm done...

There isn't much to say about this; Windows 7 RC was released a few hours early last night by Microsoft. It will remain usable for a yea...

Microsoft has a new ad out . It follows the same pattern as the recent ad with " Lauren ," the woman who decides she's not ...

Well, I've finally done it. I installed the Windows 7 Beta this morning and have just recovered from my first crash. In fairness to Micr...

Microsoft has done something new with their new version of Windows. They are allowing people to download a beta copy of their upcoming new ...

Slashdot reports that spammers are now claiming to have cracked Google's CAPTCHA system. This comes after reports that Microsoft's...

Maybe I was a little harsh when I suggested that Microsoft is irrelevant . Listening to Leo Laporte's TWiT podcast , I was struck by how...