According to tgdaily.com and their “sources,” Microsoft will be releasing its’ next generation operating system, Vista, by the week of October 2nd.  This is ahead of estimates of a fourth-quarter holiday release.  A release to manufacturing (RTM) is scheduled for August 14.  If this turns out to be true, I’ll post verification…as well as some […]

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I just happened to be browsing a blog just a bit ago when I stumbled across something I had never seen before. It was within the section of the page where there are usually Google text ads. Indeed there was an ad there but it definitely was not text. It was video. […]

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Google has launched yet another new product this month: Page Creator. According to the Web site: “Create your own web pages, quickly and easily. Google Page Creator is a free online tool that finally makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.”
Obviously, with this product and […]

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MSTN (Microsoft Software and Technology News) is reporting that the CTP of Windows Vista (the first supposed “feature-complete” version) Build 5308 has officially been released via Microsoft Connect. If you’re like me and you’re not invited to try it out then your out of luck. (This bulid is the Enterprise edition of Vista.) […]

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I’ve had my last bad experience with Computer Geeks, the online store for computer hardware, software, accessories and more.  Sure, they my lure you in with with $3 off a $47 product every now and then but their warranties are wretched, their hold times are downright harsh, and their RMA process takes entirely too long […]

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As you may have read in the “fans of tech story,” we were eventually going to be moving back to FansofTech.com built upon the latest and greatest that WordPress.org had to offer.  Well, that plan is slowly coming to fruition…hence, the absence of postings lately.  Stay tuned.

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A new online startup company called Kosmix is hoping to take on Google and its’ #1 product, their infamous online search, by introducing their own search product which they hope will generate better search results on specific subjects “by gleaning more about the overall content of Web pages searched.”  (Was that a run-on?  I apologize.)
How […]

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The Official Google Desktop Blog writes to tell us all that a BETA version of the latest Google Desktop release, 3.0, is now available. New features include:

An Updated Sidebar. The new sidebar allows you to move sidebar panels anywhere on your desktop as well as enabling you to share content within each panel […]

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There’s a report going around the “blogosphere” this morning about a man accidentally stumbling across the supposed Vista release date by viewing the source of a page where people in the U.K. can guess as to what release date Microsoft will choose - and, if they get it right, they can win prizes.
Supposedly, when you […]

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Okay, I know many people have already reported/blogged this little online app already but I’m going to blog on it anyway - just in case any of my readers haven’t experimented with it yet.  The service I’m referring to is Pandora.  Currently at pandora.com, the service takes music that you like and offers you a […]

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