Mozilla Thunderbird is finally out of the beta/release candidate stage and is now final. Version 3.0 of their software brings much needed performance improvements and better use of tab support which makes browsing through your many email accounts a breeze. They’ve also gone about easing the pain of entering new email accounts where they’ll happily […]
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If you’ve been using Mozilla’s Thunderbird email application over the years you’ve no doubt noticed that it hasn’t been substantially updated in, well, quite a long time aside from the usual bug fixes. Thankfully they’ve launched a release candidate for Thunderbird 3.0 which improves on several aspects of the email client which should, hopefully, fix […]
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You can’t blame a company for taking things slow when their technology is used by millions of people every day to view streaming content on the web even if it is horribly inefficient and causes a lackluster viewing experience. Adobe’s Flash version 10.1 will be making usage of graphics card features to improve video playback […]
Read more Adobe Flash 10.1 harnesses GPU power to speed up video playback
Would you pay $30 a month for iTunes-based television streaming? According to Peter Kafka at All Things Digital, Apple is making the rounds to TV execs to get them on board with a plan to offer their programming via iTunes on a subscription basis. Kafka says that if any company is willing to make the […]
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Did you install Apple OS X on a lowly Intel Atom-based netbook? Proud of your tech-fu? If you answered yes, then be sure to skip the next Snow Leopard update from Apple. According to reports, Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2 is incompatible with Intel’s netbook powerhouse, the Atom processor, delivering a blow to folks that […]
Read more Apple nixes Atom-based Hackintoshes
Microsoft had a lot riding on their Windows 7 operating system, after all people weren’t exactly flocking to Windows Vista and XP has been getting long in the tooth as far as features were concerned. Their efforts seem to have done good but does all of the added newfangled-ness cause performance issues to pop up? […]
Read more Windows 7 offers up tantalizing performance benefits
There’s nothing quite as scary as a new operating system roll out for businesses especially when they’ve invested quite a bit of time and money in acquiring licenses for Windows XP applications. Fortunately for them, and us, Windows 7’s XP…
Gaming has come a long way graphics-wise but there’s still quite a ways to go when it comes to the details that would make them truly immersive. One of those somewhat under-represented features is physics modeling which would improve realism…
Read more AMD Hopes to Push "Open Physics"
