Posted 10 September 2009 · 12:43 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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We love us some Opera. We’ve been advocating the Opera 10 web browser since the first alpha version was released last December. We even wrote about it in March. We’ve been faithfully using it through the beta releases and release candidates. The final version was recently released and it’s stellar.
Today, we were routing [...]
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Posted 28 July 2009 · 1:16 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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Last October, we shot out a heads-up regarding an out-of-band update from Microsoft. An out-of-band update is one that is released outside of the patch Tuesday update schedule, the well-known pattern Microsoft has established for releasing updates to its products on the second Tuesday of each month.
Today, Microsoft has released another out-of-band update. [...]
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Posted 20 March 2009 · 3:45 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 8 yesterday.The first Internet Explorer to pass the Acid 2 test, a test to verify that a browser renders web pages correctly, it boasts improved speed, better security and a few new features.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, pre-release versions of Opera and Safari are already bragging a perfect score on [...]
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Posted 14 March 2009 · 12:50 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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Newer, faster browser rendering engines are all the rage. Google released Chrome based on Webkit and V8; Firefox uses Gecko and is going to be using TraceMonkey for JavaScript. Apple made some noise a few weeks ago by releasing a beta of its Webkit-based Safari 4, now using Apple’s new Nitro engine for [...]
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Posted 13 January 2009 · 8:53 am.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
We got our hands on a copy of the public beta of Microsoft Windows 7, the planned successor to Windows Vista. From what we can see so far, it’s very fast on our test system, though we haven’t tested it with graphics drivers since our old video card isn’t supported.
Hardware support is an issue for [...]
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Posted 17 December 2008 · 8:54 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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Bad things lurk on the interwebs. Viruses are marginalized by Antivirus software, but most Antivirus software doesn’t protect against malicious websites. Websites can phish and clickjack. They can display an invisible button that infects your computer on top of another button that says “download this antivirus software”. There are actions that can be [...]
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Posted 24 November 2008 · 9:00 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
I’ve spoken with many auctioneers recently who are at the beginning stages of a new technology project, usually a website redesign or new build of some kind. The questions everyone asks mostly revolve around the expectations they should have of the person or company being hired to build the website.
I’ve put together some content that [...]
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Posted 5 October 2008 · 11:15 am.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
I use several computers simultaneously during day-to-day operation. While it’s easy to connect multiple displays to one computer, the ability to use the best features of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux simultaneously is much more valuable than having additional screen area, or real estate, on one operating system.
While it’s possible, and certainly easier, to [...]
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Posted 9 September 2008 · 8:47 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
The tubes are full of baddies. It’s not enough anyomore to simply install an antivirus package and pay your yearly virus tax. Antivirus is becoming outdated. Granted, it’s still a requirement for all but the most elite computer users, but in the time of the always-on Internet connection we need to protect ourselves against all [...]
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