Island Dog's Articles In Personal Computing
December 15, 2004 by Island Dog
Thunderbird is a full-featured email, RSS and newsgroup client that makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before. More information about Thunderbird is available. New features include. Adaptive Junk Mail Controls RSS Integration Saved Search Folders Global Inbox Support Message Grouping Privacy Protection Comprehensive Mail Migration from other Mail Clients More information and download links go to the Thunderbird website. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbi...
December 16, 2004 by Island Dog
With SP2 being out for a while, I wanted to post some software that makes slipstreaming SP2 into Windows XP simple http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/nLite/1087118197/1
December 27, 2004 by Island Dog
The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a key Microsoft title. The new project, code-named Lightning, aims to integrate Mozilla's calendar application, Sunbird, with its recently released Thunderbird e-mail application. That integration is aimed right at the heart of Microsoft's widely used Outlook software. "I think Outlook leaves a lot of room for a fast competitor," said a Mozilla volunteer involved in the project, who asked not to be named. "Th...
December 22, 2004 by Island Dog
Apple has sued three software developers, accusing them of posting pre-release versions of the next major Mac OS X update on the Internet without its permission. The lawsuit is a further blow to the reputation of BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer download technology. Last week, a host of BitTorrent server operators were sued by the Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) for hosting unauthorised copies of movies. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/22/apple_sues_tiger_leak/  
December 16, 2004 by Island Dog
There are some new critical security updates available. Just wanted to remind everyone to get updated. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
December 16, 2004 by Island Dog
Gartner has warned that companies shouldn't use the new Google Desktop Search tool because of security concerns and a lack of features. In a three-page research document, the authors - Whit Andrews, Maurene Grey and David Smith - say the tool that was released in beta in October is "not the proper search tool for businesses right now". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/15/google_gartner_desktop_search/
January 24, 2005 by Island Dog
Two and half months after Firefox's 1.0 launch, the Mozilla Foundation has more to celebrate than non-stop media coverage: Firefox has surpassed 20 million downloads. The milestone comes just days after new tallies of Web browser usage shows strong gains by the open source newcomer, which is slowly chipping away at Internet Explorer's dominance. Last November, Microsoft IE product manager Gary Schare told BetaNews, "We think that getting the first set of early adopters is a lot easier th...
January 21, 2005 by Island Dog
Use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has fallen for the seventh straight month, and the decline is beginning to accelerate, according to new data from research firm WebSideStory. Usage of IE stood at 90.3 percent, a one month decrease of 1.5 percent. Meanwhile, Firefox usage rose nearly a full percentage point to 5 percent of the market. WebSideStory also showed gains in Apple's Safari browser and Opera Software's flagship browser. The original Mozilla browser showed some weaknes...
January 20, 2005 by Island Dog
I think the price is too high for this service. Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) is launching on Thursday a subscription service that offers users a tight link between the company's MSN Hotmail Web mail service and its Outlook e-mail client PC software. The new service, called Microsoft Office Outlook Live, costs $59.95 per year and includes Office Outlook 2003 for Subscription Services, which is a new downloadable subscription version of Office Outlook 2003, 2GB of online s...
January 13, 2005 by Island Dog
Microsoft plans to drop the "Home" and "Pro" tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today's Windows XP (news - web sites) Media Center and Tablet PC editions. While still mum on many Longhorn packaging details, Microsoft representatives are more willing to talk publicly about the product now that a first beta release is set to ship in the coming months and the decisions about key operati...
January 11, 2005 by Island Dog
Looks interesting. Link
January 5, 2005 by Island Dog
Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on its spyware killer, which is based on technology from a recently acquired company, Giant Software. The beta version is expected to debut in a few days. Microsoft's December purchase of Giant, a small U.S. publisher of spyware detection software, put Microsoft in a position to offer an antispyware application of its own. Spyware is software that can, among other things, inundate users with unwanted pop-ups and surreptitiously monitor a comput...
January 2, 2005 by Island Dog
Like most people I receive a lot of spam in my inbox. I use mye-mail for pretty much everything including business so finding a wayto filter the spam while minimzing the chances of good mail gettingtagged as spam is important. I recently purchased Outlook 2003 aftertrying out Thunderbird and decided Outlook is better for my needs. Outlook has a built-in junk mail filter that does a prett good job atfiltering the mail, but it seems lately more and more spam is gettingthrough. ...
December 29, 2004 by Island Dog
With iPod-savvy Windows users clearly in its sights, Apple is expected to announce a bare bones, G4-based iMac without a display at Macworld Expo on January 11 that will retail for $499, highly reliable sources have confirmed to Think Secret. Link What does everybody think about this?
April 25, 2005 by Island Dog
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Microsoft Corp.'s plan to hardwire computer security into a silicon chip rather than relying on software alone will make its debut in the next release of the Windows PC operating system that will ship late next year. The technology, to be described by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates during a speech in Seattle on Monday, will protect the startup of PCs equipped with a security chip and ensure that sensitive files aren't accessible when someone tries to boot the computer ...