If you are one of those Windows Vista users, check this out.
Press the Windows key and "e" for ten seconds or so and... here you have a Vista crash!
Yes, that's it: only two fingers to stop the Wow.
Have fun crashing your friends' Windows PCs!
Source: Softpedia
While Apple, Samsung and zillions of other companies are patenting cool stuff everyday, Microsoft is innovating its way, once again.
In fact, Microsoft has patented the mother of all adwares: a framework (definition: a set of software routines that can be used in every program) to deliver advertisements, based on the content of the user's hard drive, that cannot be controlled by the user himself.
What an invention! Users will continuously be disturbed by ads, that violate privacy and that cannot be stopped. Microsoft is selling your privacy to become even richer. Wow.
Source: Slashdot, InformationWeek
Microsoft is introducing a new format for Office documents, called OOXML. It stands for "Office Open XML" and it should become a standard in the near future.
The reason why Microsoft has decided to substitute its .doc, .xls, etc... apparently is that they want to switch from a binary document to a plain text one; that is, it should be easier for competitors to read and write the same format.
But this simply is not correct!
Microsoft is creating a new standard that only its software can read and write: in fact, OOXML cannot be implemented by anyone else since it is covered by patents and it contains binary data (!!!).
So OOXXML:
1. Is not a standard: there is already a "Office Open XML" and it is called ODF, which is supported by OpenOffice. So there's no need for OOXML!
2. Is not open: the implementation of OOXML is described in 6000 pages, how can one implement it? Moreover OOXML is protected by some patents and its implementation omisses important details... even if you wanted you couldn't implement OOXML in your program!
3. Is not XML: OOXML, which should be pure XML, contains binary data, whose handling is not described in the standard. This is another proof that only Microsoft will be able to read and write OOXML.
SAY NO TO THIS FREAKIN FORMAT!
SIGN THE PETITION!
Every iPod that Apple has made has always been extremely beautiful and quite resistant to shocks.
Unfortunately, the material chosen for the external case, tends to scratch very easily.
But it seems that Apple is going to change the way things are.
The new iPhone, in fact, features a glass front cover which does shine as much as the iPod's front cover but is much more resistant to scratches.
Just look at this video; you won't believe your eyes!
...Glass also does a good job with fingerprints: this is a very important news since touching the display is necessary to use the iPhone.
If you are the (lucky) owner of an iPhone write your comments below and say what you have experienced so far!
