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30 Jun 2009 22:30

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Tech: Firefox 3.5 is out. Is it quality or junk? Ars Technica weighs in.

  • The Firefox 3.5 release builds on the browser’s existing strengths to offer a high-quality user experience with a lot of rich new functionality.
  • Ars Technica writer Ryan Paul • Explaining why Firefox 3.5 is a major step forward for not only the browser itself but the Web in general. Simply put, it doesn’t suck. Less simply put, it offers significant speed increases, private browsing, HTML 5 video standards, drop shadows, interface upgrades and other awesome stuff. But you STILL can’t drag JPG files into Photoshop without a big error box coming up. What the heck, Mozilla? That’s a big problem. • source
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25 Jun 2009 10:21

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Tech: Windows 7: Still expensive, but cheaper than Vista

  • $119 The price the average consumer will pay to upgrade to the Home Edition from Windows XP or Vista; the most expensive package – a new version of Ultimate – costs $319 source
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19 Jun 2009 09:42

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Tech: Reminder: Today is iPhone New Year’s. (WWDC was iPhone Christmas)

  • eight countries get the new iPhone 3GS today, including the U.S. source
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08 Jun 2009 15:48

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Tech: The iPhone 3GS is better but not earth-shattering, guys

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  • OK, we get it. Touchscreens. Ooh. App store. Whatever. But really, couldn’t you have done something even better with it than make it a faster and give it a cool new camera? Evolutionary, not revolutionary.source
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11 May 2009 00:51

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Tech: To Google Android users: Today’s a big day for an upgrade

  • Google’s Android mobile operating system is up to Version 1.5, a version Geek.com claims really should have been called 2.0 considering the hefty feature upgrades. source
  • The upgrade, released last month, finally comes to T-Mobile’s G1 phone today. The upgrade brings virtual keyboards, video recording (and sharing!) and voice search. Spiffy. source
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04 May 2009 11:34

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Biz, Tech: Vista may leave store shelves as soon as Windows 7 arrives

  • It’s been a long time since we’ve had a version of Windows that will actually run better (than the previous version) on the hardware that most customers have.
  • Mike Nash • Microsoft’s vice president of the Windows product management group. MS appears to be ready to give up on the unpopular OS. Vista may stop shipping with new computers as soon as Windows 7 shows up, according to a company-wide memo. But … but … what would Lauren say? • source
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07 Apr 2009 10:36

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Tech: Five differences between the Nintendo DS and DSi

  • The DSi has an SD card slot, in case you want to jam out to your favorite whiny Emo songs while gaming. source
  • There’s multiple cameras on the DSi – both to shoot pics of you and your imaginary buddies. source
  • Like bigger screens? Of course you do! The DSi has two 3.25-inch matte (not glossy) screens. source
  • The DSi now packs the DSi Store, an App Store-style wi-fi download store, which is pretty awesome, kids. source
  • Sadly, there’s no GBA slot, so if you have some old-school games around, you’re screwed. source
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20 Mar 2009 10:37

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Politics, Tech: Microsoft’s IE8 is out – is it any good? Let’s ask the Interweb!

  • And we think that, as long as we don’t have to tweak our code, we’re happy.
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24 Jan 2009 02:15

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Tech: Mac prices, then and now

  • $2,495 cost of a Mac at its 1984 launch; Apple’s new machine was underpowered at the time source
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