Adobe’s Flash Player (versions 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) had a bit of a security issue that could have allowed malicious individuals to crash Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems and run arbitrary code which could compromise a system.Given how pervasive their…
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In case you missed the veritable flood of news concerning the topic Mozilla’s Firefox version 3.5 final has been released. The latest version boasts improved performance and standards compliance which is always nice.As far as the performance claim there is…
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OpenOffice.org has released the latest version of its popular, and free, office suite bringing it up to version 3.1. The most notable changes, aside from bug fixes, are performance improvements to their Calc spreadsheet application which according to them:Performance…
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Adobe has announced that all currently shipping and supported versions (Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, and 7.1.1 and earlier versions) of its Adobe Reader and Acrobat PDF browsing applications are vulnerable to an exploit which may allow for malicious…
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Intel’s Core i7 CPU is a beast when it comes to number crunching, far outpacing every other desktop chip known to man. Of course there are those odd circumstances where you’ll want to use it in something outside of its…
Ye olde system desktop has been something of a pain for users for many years, It’s simple enough to keep track of things on it when you’ve got a handful of icons but when it starts to get cluttered you’ll…
There comes a time for most products to get the old heave from the regular driver update schedule, today AMD/ATI’s Radeon lineup gets a bit of pruning. The Radeon X1000 lineup and earlier aren’t going to be seeing much in…
If you’re struggling with the choice between Apple’s OSX 10.5.5 or Ubuntu 8.10 as your next operating system you’re in luck, Phoronix may have made your choice for you. They went about pitting both OSes against each other in various…
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