Lots of people have been talking about the Firefox speed tweak that was in The Inquirer recently. Here’s a link… Read more Firefox speed-up

xMirror v0.1.1 available from Meatme adds 3 extensions mirrors to the Firefox extension dialog. User Agent Switcher gives the user… Read more More Firefox extensions

This article from Desktop Pipeline gives an overview of how Digital Rights Management is being used by some to turn… Read more DRM a conduit for Spyware

Reported in BetaNews, the article (link here) says that Sun has revoked FreeBSD’s Java license, preventing them from shipping Java… Read more Sun revokes FreeBSD’s Java license?

Microsoft has a tool you can run on Win2K, 2003 Server and XP to see what ports are open and… Read more Open Ports On Your XP System?

A free magazine from the UK, Home Computer Magazine is truly free, requiring no registration. It’s distributed as an unprotected… Read more Home Computer Magazine

Don’t know if you saw this or not and I don’t think it was in the pack of updates that… Read more Flaw in Windows Firewall

Microsoft has published KB885222 documenting the issues which can include a slowdown or complete inoperability of your IEEE1394 devices.

Good article in the Windows Secrets Newsletter, outlining the differences between IMAP and POP3. I’m an IMAP believer, having several… Read more IMAP vs POP3

Microsoft now include a ClearType Tuner in their PowerToys (available here. Very useful if you have a laptop or an… Read more ClearType Tuner PowerToy