If you are familiar with Twitter, then consider Pownce another step in that direction.  Pownce lets you send links, files, etc. to your friends, and the public if you wish.  The system is very similar to what Twitter does, but it does seem a little bit more polished.  It's pretty simple in what it does, and it seems to work quite well as I have no ran into any problems so far.  The interface is simple and clean, and it's slightly customizable as you can choose from a few them...

From the how-not-to-do-it dept. Jane Galt has an article onSony VAIO customer service that is just outrageous. I work in phone tech support - and the service that she's gotten would have had a blistering comemnt delivered to me from my manager. OTOH, the company I work for doesn't offshore their tech support, and while I understand there are some outsourced call cetners, they deal with the penny-ante billing BS, not with anything serious.

 June 2007TweakVista Public Beta begins Stardock and TweakVista.com have teamed up to create the ultimate Windows Vista tweaking  utility. If you have Windows Vista, you absolutely should try this out. The public beta is free.

[Get TweakVista Beta]Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6 Released The highest rated PC game of 2007 has gotten its first major update of the year. Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar includes a new graphics engine, new diplomacy UI, updated AI, new m...

Microsoft hints about new OS in 2009. See story here..
WWW Link

Are you ready for DST changes?

In August of 2005 the United States Congress passed the Energy
Policy Act, which changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving
time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks
earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will end one week later
(2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November) than what had traditionally
occurred. Refer to this Microsoft Web site for the latest information on
Daylight...

Reuters speculates Intel is set to acquire NVIDIA. If the acquisition were to happen it would be interesting to see what Intel has in store for NVIDIA, as Intel holds the majority of the graphics market. Intel’s primary competitor, AMD, previously acquired ATI Technologies -- NVIDIA’s primary competitor. The proposed AMD and ATI merger is nearing its final stages at the moment.

This is still speculation at the moment as NVIDIA was deemed too expensive to purchase.

Source...

I do a podcast -- PowerUser.TV. It's a tech podcast but with a lot of tongue in cheek. I play up my more offensive side of things with lots of weekly rants.

We really enjoy doing the podcasts, but the problem is that the work vs. reward is just not there.

Here's some of the problems with podcasts:

1) The sites that syndicate the feeds are the ones who get all the rewards. ITunes, PodNova, Yahoo, they're the ones who make all that advertising revenue without having to create the content...

95% of Information Security breaches are from known vulnerabilities and misconfigurations (CERT)

It’s a shocking but true statement.

But then if the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations are known, why are steps not taken to correct them?

Well, the answer lies in the question itself. The vulnerabilities are known but which ones exist in your systems/ network need to be identified. The first step towards protection against security breaches is identification of these vulnerabilities. Th...

We all know that the war against terror is currently on and it has spread to various parts of the world. Terrorist hideouts are being looked for and terrorists are being killed.  But, this should have nothing to do with Kaspersky (leading developer of ant-virus and information security solutions) and Microsoft (the developers of windows operating system and much more).  Well, Microsoft and Kaspersky are fighting a war of different kind. This war is against the terror that affects the l...

I've seen a few posts on and off topic when it comes to anti-virus protection. It can be a touchy subject for a lot of people due to poor customer experience when it comes to 'paid-for software' and just finding one that will do the job without 'messing' with their computer. Sometimes, 'uninstalling' an anti-virus' program in itself can be frustrating.

I have often put my two cents in and have been an advocate for Avast. I'll tell you why.
1. It's free. Like Adaware, you can run a free ve...

I believe it is just a matter of time, when PodCasting and BitTorrent will be combined to reduce the bandwidth associated with PodCasting, if it hasn't already been done.

Thinking about doing some PodCasting, anyone have great links or tutorials?

Yes, that's right. Today, June 29th is System Administrator Appreciation Day! Today is the day that you should go out and actually thank your office computer guy for keeping all the systems running, even after you opened that email attachment promising pictures of hot tennis stars naked. Today is the day to show these guys and gals that keep the world from falling down on your head a bit of appreciation.

The official site lists a ton of ways to show your appreciation. I personally always...

Over on the WinCustomize.com news page I gave my two cents on today's ruling.  Based on the poll I saw on News.com, 2 out of 3 people disagree with the ruling.  What a shock.  "But...I don't want to have to pay for other people's work..I want it for free.." 

I know a lot of people who pirate software, games, music, movies, etc.  I don't harp to them about it.  What ticks me off are the companies that actually make a business model out of serving pirates.  e...

SOURCE: Extreme Tech

EarthLink Offers $69.99 Subsidized PC
May 27, 2005 By ExtremeTech Staff

The subsidized PC is back.

Xandros and EarthLink said Thursday that customers who sign up for Earthlink's premium dial-up service can purchase a Microtel Pc for only $69.99, which comes bundled with a Xandros Linux operating system.

Users also have the option of purchasing a notebook PC for $399, loaded with the same bundle of service. Earthlink's service is priced at $21.99 a month, or $...

In my last article I talked about why freeware usually doesn't succeed as a long term competitor to commercial software. In a nutshell it was because freeware authors tend to start their programs because it interests them, then they stick with it because they feel a loyalty to their "user base" but then eventually stop developing either from lack of time, losing interest totally, or (very commonly) because their "user base" abandoned them suddenly.

Now, predictably, some freeware advocates po...