TheNextWeb reports that WordPress.com is currently down and affecting 9.2 million hosted blogs. Certain blogs such as TechCrunch, GigaOM and CNN blogs all who are hosted on WordPress’s servers are all down at the time of writing. Luckily the company knows about the issue and is working on restoring services right now, at least they say [...]
Personally, I am not a huge fan of Google Buzz. I don’t care about all that privacy mumbo jumbo so much, I guess I am just afraid of change. It is like starting something completely new, and since I am just starting everything up on Twitter and Facebook, I don’t see a decent enough reason [...]
A Microsoft project manager has posted and then removed a blog post regarding what he feels the next version of Windows will be like.
via Reuters “Apple is a very close and valuable partner and we’re very excited about the relationship we have with them today. We have no reason to believe that’s going to change,” Vic Gundotra, who leads Google’s mobile engineering, told journalists on Monday.
Users of Facebook know that it has a chat client which allows them to instantly message their Facebook friends when logged in. Until recently, that service was limited to just Facebook, preventing users from communicating with their Facebook friends when using other instant messaging clients (AIM, etc.) — unless those friends were already included in [...]
The folks at Search Engine Land are brilliant, and this article is a godsend for so many. Google says it may allow people to participate in Google Buzz without having it integrated within Gmail, in addition to offering a combined Gmail service. That may be a welcome move for users of both products, especially in [...]
For a while I wondered how well Firefox really blocked popups, and let’s be honest here: It kicks ass. I was browsing the web when I happened on a great site called PopupTest, ironically that link will open in a new window! This simple web site uses Javascript to test out your browsers popup blocking [...]
Something happened today that really sparked my mind, and I wondered if a lot of people did this. It seems extremely strange to me and I really could not figure out why in the world people would do this crazy thing. What crazy thing you might ask? Get rid of a 6 month old, perfectly [...]
This is a big thanks to ArsTechnica, as usual. They are brilliant and I thank them for this. One of the updates from this month’s giant Patch Tuesday is wreaking havoc on some users Windows PCs by giving them the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), according to a thread on Microsoft Answers, the company’s support [...]
I tell customers while I am at their houses sometimes that I’m not really sure what exactly is causing the problem just yet, and that I need to do some more troubleshooting to figure out the cause of the icons randomly moving themselves around the desktop, and then sometimes I get a response like “Oh [...]
