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07-09-2005, 06:25 AM
NO MORE "MY" IN LONGHORN
In a move that sent shockwaves through the computer industry, Microsoft recently announced it was dropping the "My" prefix from various folders in its upcoming Longhorn OS. the "My Documents" folder, for example, will simply be named "Documents" in the upcoming OS. Can we ge a hallelujah?
CONGRESS OUTLAWS SPYWARE
Congress recently passed tough legislation against spyware, programs that are secretly installed on a user's PC and theat report on computing activities, change a browser's start page and muck up tmost Windows installations. Violators of the anti-spyware ordinance coud face up to two years in jail and fines up to $3 million. Another hallelujah!
NEW BROWSER TIME FOR MOZILLA
The folks at Mozilla have released the next-generation Firefox web browser for testing. Code named Deer Park Alpha, the revamped browser sports cool new features for everyone from end users to web programmers. New features for home users include a "sanitize" faunction that lets you clean browser cache, cookies, hisory, and saved forms info via a keyboard shortcut and a new "experimental" session-navigating feature that should speed up going back or forward from page to page. If you're feeling frisky, you can check it out at www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/releases/alpha1.html
Source: MaximumPc Magazine
In a move that sent shockwaves through the computer industry, Microsoft recently announced it was dropping the "My" prefix from various folders in its upcoming Longhorn OS. the "My Documents" folder, for example, will simply be named "Documents" in the upcoming OS. Can we ge a hallelujah?
CONGRESS OUTLAWS SPYWARE
Congress recently passed tough legislation against spyware, programs that are secretly installed on a user's PC and theat report on computing activities, change a browser's start page and muck up tmost Windows installations. Violators of the anti-spyware ordinance coud face up to two years in jail and fines up to $3 million. Another hallelujah!
NEW BROWSER TIME FOR MOZILLA
The folks at Mozilla have released the next-generation Firefox web browser for testing. Code named Deer Park Alpha, the revamped browser sports cool new features for everyone from end users to web programmers. New features for home users include a "sanitize" faunction that lets you clean browser cache, cookies, hisory, and saved forms info via a keyboard shortcut and a new "experimental" session-navigating feature that should speed up going back or forward from page to page. If you're feeling frisky, you can check it out at www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/releases/alpha1.html
Source: MaximumPc Magazine