Google has rolled out a new all black navigation bar across the top of the search engine's major sites like web, image, and video searches, Google News, Google Maps, and Google Calendar. So far, Gmail and YouTube seem unaffected by the change. The change goes from black text with white background to a black background with grey text and white text for the focused … [Read more...]
Microsoft Meets The Cloud With Office 365 or “Microsoft Apps”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer led a presentation today that announced Office 365 was no longer in beta and is now available to purchase. The beta of Microsoft's Office suite as cloud apps was launched last year and has now been released to the web. … [Read more...]
How We Treat Our Computers [Humor]
StickyComics has another observation of our computer usage like the previous Where Did You Meet? and An Update is Available comics. For more great comics (and the alt-text), check out today's comic at www.StickyComics.com. … [Read more...]
How Do I Install A Driver When The Hardware Doesn’t Show Up In Device Manager?
I was working on a computer recently that was getting a fresh install of Windows XP on it. After the Windows setup was completed, it had a few unknown devices. One of those devices was the network card, so I downloaded the driver from HP and moved it over to the computer by USB figuring I could download the rest directly once I could get the NIC installed. I ran through the … [Read more...]
Summing Up The Browser Wars
The browser wars are summarized nicely with this drawing from The Shoze Blog. In addition to the blog, you can find more of their works on DeviantArt. … [Read more...]