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Now available: Mac OS X 10.5.4 update

A little more than a month since the last major update for Leopard was released, Apple has just burped forth Mac OS X 10.5.4. Run Software Update to grab it. At this writing, it has not yet shown up on Apple’s downloads page. [See Update 2.0 below.] It is not as big as previous updates to [...]

Windows XP going away today . . . but not really

Today’s a landmark for Windows XP, a.k.a The OS That Would Not Die. Microsoft will stop allowing big-name PC makers to sell new machines with Windows XP pre-installed and activated. After almost 7 years, Windows XP is finally beginning to wind down. Except, those who insist on Windows XP will still be able to get it [...]

Linkpost | 6.30.2008

Guest post: Claus Valca’s little AVG 8 Free ‘problem’

[Note: A new version of AVG Free — the popular Windows antivirus software — has been out for a while, and it’s quite controversial. I’d been planning a review of it, but I was so impressed with analyses I’d see from Claus Valca at Grand Stream Dreams that I asked him to write a guest [...]

Linkpost | 6.29.2008

It grows, it moves! AT&T’s headquarters heading to Dallas

Associated Press Ernestine: ‘It’s been fun, S.A., but we’re taking our switchboards to Big D.’ Fifteen years ago, Southwestern Bell moved its corporate headquarters from St. Louis, Mo., to San Antonio. It was a big deal for the third-largest city in Texas, and got even bigger as Southwestern [...]

Your right to open comments upheld

Lost in the hubbub over the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment ruling Thursday was another dictum handed down. The nine justices also affirmed your right to post open comments on Fridays in TechBlog. The court was affirming this little known amendment to the Constitution, sometimes known as Amendment 1A. A well regulated TechBlog, being necessary to the enlightenment [...]

What are your favorite geek songs?

Last year, I wrote a couple of blog posts about must-experience geek movies and books — 15 geek movies to see before you die and 15 geek novels to read before you die. Both were quite popular, and spawned some good discussion — they’re the kind of topics that inspire others to tell you just [...]

The mouse is dead? Long live the mouse!

Veteran tech columnist Mike Elgan speculates in a Datamation column blog post that our days of using a mouse as a computer’s primary input device are numbered. He’s riffing off a Gartner report — issued way back in February — that indicates the trend toward touch computing spells the end of mousing. Color me dubious. [...]

Microsoft issues performance/reliability update for Vista SP1

It’s not even Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft’s got some fresh code for Windows Vista SP1 users in the form of a performance and reliability update. Here’s what’s in it: