It was announced yesterday that Internet Explorer 7 will be coming in the fourth quarter of this year, and will be pushed out as a critical update for Windows XP users. This is pretty good news, as it means that the bulk of Internet Explorer users will be upgraded to…
An update for Firefox was released today, bringing it to version 1.5.0.4. I suggest you go get it if you don’t use Firefox, or use the auto-update feature (Help > Check For Updates) in Firefox if you do. Harvest is a really frigging cool web-based time tracking application. I have…
Still using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser on your Windows machine? Stop already! With the most recent critical, unpatched security exploits running wild, reports are coming in regarding otherwise innocent web sites silently installing malicious programs that steal your passwords and other sensitive information. Do yourself a favor and install Firefox…
The National Federation for the Blind is suing Target for having an inaccessible web site for blind people. This is good. If all goes well, this will lead to the private sector having to take greater responsibility for their web sites and creating them to be accessible to people with…
My favorite registry-cleaning tool EZCleaner is no longer free. Well, you now have to subscribe to their web site to download the ‘free’ software. However, I found a couple of great utilities that easily take its place. So without further ado, here is my updated list of free Windows utilities…
Thunderbird 1.5 is out, and so far I am very pleased with the free email application. The realtime spellchecker is done quite well. It is unobtrusive but highly usable. The junkmail controls are helpful and allow me to integrate with SpamAssasin, which runs on my web/email server. This version has…
