George Ou from ZDNet compares the number of recent security flaws found in IE vs Firefox.
From March 2005 to September 2005 10 vulnerabilities were published for Microsoft Internet Explorer, 40 for Mozilla Firefox. In April-September timespan there were 6 exploits for MSIE, 11 for Firefox. Conclusion? As you can see, the facade that Firefox is [...]
According to Epic Empire, Hotmail will be replaced with Mail, currently in beta. Google seems a lot clunkier all of a sudden. Mail is inspired by Outlook.
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A new survey says 87 percent of Americans don’t know what VoIP is. What’s also unclear is why people should need to know what they are. “The acronym VoIP and the term ‘Voice over Internet Protocol’ can be intimidating for many consumers, because it sounds like something that only tech-savvy people can [...]
Rumors say that Microsoft, in all it’s wisdom, decided that it would give consumers more choice when it comes to operating systems. 9 to be exact.
Windows Vista Home N Edition (Europe only)
Windows Vista Home Basic Edition
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
Windows Vista Professional N Edition (Europe only)
Windows Vista Professional Edition
Windows Vista Small Business Edition
Windows [...]
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and news site, had a 130% increase in visits in this past year far surpassing Google News and even CNN main threads. The site, now almost #1 on the internet, has become the major news and information hub. While I doubt mainstream media will go away, more and more people [...]
I’ve updated the RSS parser on the main page using MagPie RSS. It works a lot faster by caching the content localy. It also checks the Last-Modified and ETag to decide if it needs to download a new version (for digg & del.icio.us links).
I also rounded the corners off using some [...]
#3 Michigan vs. #20/22 Notre Dame
This Saturday at the Big House in Ann Arbor, MI
Although Michigan vs. Ohio State is the greatest rivalry in sports, Notre Dame is probably Michigan’s second biggest rivalry. Michigan State fans just hate that they’re not our biggest rivals.
What does U of M have over its [...]
Have you seen this thing??
As if Apple didn’t already have the coolest portable music player on the market, they have replaced the iPod mini with the iPod nano. What’s next; the iPod pico?
When I first saw the nano on Engadget, I thought it was a joke. While I wanted an iPod before, I [...]
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Reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. In most cases you’ll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first.
Very [...]