10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Hassle-Free PC
Personal computers were supposed to make our lives easier. Instead, these beasts have turned us all into part-time IT administrators, our lives given over to downloading upgrades, installing patches and updates and drivers and antispyware, decrypting error messages and screaming at stalled applications. Enough!
More @ Forbes
2. Apple Ultra-Portable MacBook Rumor Roundup
As rumors start to build for Macworld San Francisco 2008, the most consistent rumor appears to be one of an ultra-portable Apple notebook computer.
More @ MacRumors
3. Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb, We Say: Meh
Newly awarded Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech to tell the world that the internet makes us dumb.
More @ TechCrunch
5. One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?
At the Consumer Electronics Show last January, Microsoft and Yahoo made a big deal out of a Vista-optimized version of Yahoo Messenger that was supposedly one of many compelling Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) apps in the pipeline.
More @ ZDNetBlogs
6. Voices without borders
Our lives are a fabric of overlapping stories: stories that are entirely unique, stories that are richly specific, stories that define who we are, where we have come from, what we believe in. And while each story is ultimately personal, we find across them the common themes of love and loss, adversity and triumph.
More @ Googleblog
7. Linux Blog Safari: Alabama Now a Third-World Country?
It's not too often the public schools figure prominently in the Linux blogs, but sure enough, this week they drew a surprising amount of discussion on a few different sites.
More @ LinuxInsider
9. Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs in users' hands.
More @ DesktopLinux
10. Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet
On the weekend of October 27, 2007, the Internet was suddenly bombarded with a rash of spam emails promoting U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul. The spam run continued until Tuesday, October 30, when it stopped as suddenly as it began.
More @ SecureWorks
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