Looks like Vista, still in Beta, is already getting the patching treatment from Microsoft, according to Techworld. Microsoft also seem to have neglected to inform the Beta using public that IE7 and the Windows kernel are subject to exploitation prior to recent patches. I’m currently dual booting Vista and XP and at every boot I…
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Adobe Lightroom Windows Beta
Happy days for the photographers among us as Adobe have finally launched a Windows beta of Lightroom, previously only available on the Mac. Lightroom and Aperture are designed to handle photographs taken in the “raw” formats available on higher-end digital cameras. Raw images preserve more detail because they’re pulled directly off a camera’s image sensor;…
Flocking With Vista
Finally gave up well into the wee hours of the morning (well, at about 2:45am anyway) after a good poke through Vista. The diagnostics seemed ok, fired up a little issue with my graphics card (GeForce 6500) claiming that the drivers were causing Vista to load and run slowly. Get back up this morning and…
Testing Vista
Lets see… 1:10am and I’ve finally cracked the whole Vista thing. Gave it a quick lash yesterday, by quick I mean about 4 hours. Bought a second HD during the week (another 200GB) so fired that into the machine, made a primary partition for Vista, installed thinking – ok, so far so good. No chance….
Branded In Beta
Thats exactly how Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 stands… branded in Beta. Having not yet hit a strong public release, never mind the forthcoming release of Windows Vista RC1 (several months away yet no doubt), you can now pick yourself up the “hot new look for summer 06″…. a fully Yahoo! branded version of IE7b. My…
PubSub For Firefox – Problems
Out of interest, has anyone tried the PubSub extension for Firefox? I installed it in the office on Thursday evening, shut down the machine, booted up on Friday and you think Firefox would work? No chance! Several restarts, try safe mode, try reinstalling Firefox up to the latest version – still no go. Solution? Trawl…
A Weekend For Operating Systems
In between the football for the weekend I’ve set aside a little bit of time to flex the operating sytem muscles after picking up a copy of Partition Magic. After downloading a copy of the latest Ubuntu release (700mb iso) and I’m currently in the process of picking up Windows Vista Beta 2. Having refused…
Spreading The Sheets With Google
They’ve already taken on board Writely as an online word processor and now Google are launching Google Spreadsheets right out of Google Labs – with support for both XLS and CSV files, and again, its another free service. Had been talking in the office last week about how it would be a great way to…
Eh… Adobe? Where’s My PDF?
Why, oh why, would you take away the ability to support PDFs across Microsoft applications? Its just become to much to bear… seemingly….
MP11 – Get it while its hot…. or beta…
Its not actually available yet, but it will be on Wednesday morning… Windows Media Player 11 is about to hit the net (link live on May 17th) in a new wave of Microsoft releases, and after some serious ass-whipping of late by iTunes, Microsoft now says “No More”. (via) With all the comings and goings…