Review: Windows 7 strong, but don't pay to upgrade

NEW YORK — Next week, Microsoft is releasing Windows 7, a slick, much improved operating system that should go a long way toward erasing the bad impression left by its previous effort, Vista.

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Away from the financial bust, tech stocks boomed

SEATTLE — Intel Corp. and other technology stocks helped lead the way as markets climbed out of the trough they fell into in March — even as the recession kept many big corporations and consumers sitting on their wallets instead of spending on computers and other high-tech products.

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Apple director Levinson leaves Google's board

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. said Monday that Arthur Levinson has resigned from the Internet search leader's board, averting a potential showdown with government regulators over his overlapping job as a director for computer and gadget maker Apple Inc.

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Apple director Levinson leaving Google board

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. said Monday that a board member who also serves as a director for computer maker Apple Inc. is stepping down, removing a potential conflict of interest as the two companies look to compete more directly.

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Contrary to the usual beliefs that my Mac is fully secure, we have reported again and again that it isn't exactly the same unless you are one of those self -assured types with eyes closed. The reason Mac community hasn't been affected is because of the strange aloofness of Black Hat groupies to exploit its vulnerabilities rather than pampering it. Anyway, just to prove my point that Apple never was too concerned about patching the security loopholes, they have at last fixed a potentially very harmful Java hole after almost 11 months of being addressed by Sun Microsystems. Sun warned the world of flaws in its Java virtual machine that make it easy for attackers to execute malware on users' Macs, PCs, and Linux boxes and they had fixed it for Windows and Linux at least 6 months before. So, Apple did it after the tech world knew, got worried, fixed and forgot about it. Full article (370 words) »

If you ask people about the search engine they use, you'll hardly find a soul who doesn't use Google. To simplify searching and make it more powerful, Google released yet another technology to all users which is named as the Google Quick Search Box or just QSB in short. Don't you think that the screen shot seen in the left looks like the popular Mac App QuickSilver?
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Are you a Mac-buff and looking for a Google experience. Obviously you know Google is best for online searches. In its recent updates Google offers a Quick Search Box for the Mac users. It's an open source search box that allows you to search data across the web on your Mac system.
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Mozilla's Eddie Lee has produced an experimental version of Firefox that allowed Mac users to control the browser with multi-fingered gestures in v3.2 Beta 2, which have been made official.

Blog.wired.com gave it a try, and the gestures are even better than those in Apple's own browser, Safari. Here's the list of what you can do, provided by MacRumors.

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Norton Antivirus, no matter how much criticized, is still one of the most trusted and popular antivirus softwares if we consider the whole world. So I tried to play a bit with Norton Anti-virus version 11 and then come out with something that can give us a bit of a respite from the nagging 1 month subscription.

You know that, installing a NAV and then re-installing it every month doesn't work. Even if you delete every possible corner of your HDD, you can not simply do that. So here is a step by step procedure of the actual process you can do on your Mac and extend subscription

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Mac users are relatively secure from the growing threats of intruders and hackers. But that doesn't mean that you can just sit back and relax with your gates wide open. You never know, a single virus or a human mistake can ruin your Christmas party big time. Especially because its festival time, I know that you will be busy in buying different gifts from online shopping forums which need a lot of sensitive information to be sent. WHat if someone tracks them down all and exploits them. Don't worry. I am here to tell you 10 good tips which will keep you away from those cyber- thieves.

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