I am pleasantly surprised (which admittedly does not take a lot when it comes to Electronic Arts). Downloading the two older expansion packs for Sims 3 was ridiculously cheap - in fact, even cheaper than advertised on their website.  And I get to install them 5 times, more if I uninstall. Installation is slow but automatic.  (I resent not being ( Read more... )

Evidently Amazon has served a defective installer for the last few months, but someone has thoughtfully kept the old one and made it available ( Read more... )

After I installed Windows anew, I am not installing the Steam network (or Impulse either) until I actually need them.
I have a feeling that could be a while.

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Opera 11 is out, and introduces the new idea of tab stacking. Drag tabs on top of each other to create a stack, which you can later expand at will when you use it ( Read more... )

Search giant Google has once again put their hand in a hornet's nest with the quiet introduction of Google Scribe, a free autocomplete feature. It is hard to imagine a more unassuming service, and yet the cold sweat is breaking out all over the world. If Google knows what you are going to type, what else will they be able to predict about you ( Read more... )

Today I received my copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11, the newest and best in speech recognition software. I use the home edition, which is theoretically priced at $99 at Amazon, but can frequently be bought at a lower price (especially after the first few weeks). The new version is said to be 15% more accurate, but you are not likely to ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of Google, so of course I checked this out as soon as I got my hands on it. I was kind of disappointed that it does not integrate with FaceBook, and only one-way with Twitter. I did not expect LiveJournal or Wordpress, truth to tell: I was surprised that it did integrate with Blogspot, even though that is a Google product ( Read more... )

OK, this really baffled me when I first saw it. I had taken speed and responsiveness to be pretty much the same thing, or at least two sides of the same coin. They are not: Speed is how fast you get the job done, responsiveness is how fast you can take orders. And it turns out that this is what we really want: A computer that snaps to attention ( Read more... )

So, we thought cloud computer would be the future. But instead we have local computers crunching away on the SETI project, protein folding, and streaming music from local harddisks. In other words, the cloud is where we are. In other words, it is not just a cloud, it is a fog. The fog is coming to the Internet, and it will never leave. September ( Read more... )

Opera Unite is out. From here on, every web user with Opera browser and a more or less permanent connection can make his computer into a web server. For free. So easy that even (or especially) the mildly computer challenged can do it. Because everyone is interested in your 45000 baby pictures.

Check it out. The web will never be the same again.