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Ad Aware SE Professional 1.06r1

For years, people have sworn by Lavasoft Ad-Aware, both the free SE Personal and the paid SE Professional versions, for stopping adware and spyware on their PCs. Last year the product placed first among our top 10 antispyware applications reviewed. In this year's tests, however, the paid Ad-Aware SE Professional...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Ad-aware, Ad-Aware SE, spyware

Product reviews 2007-03-29

Lavasoft Ad-aware SE 1.06

Ad-aware SE 1.06 is the latest version of Lavasoft's popular and venerable antispyware program, and not surprisingly, it continues to meet the high standards that Ad-aware is known for. Long considered the grandfather of antispyware programs, Ad-aware keeps getting better. Of all the antispyware software tested by Download.com, Ad-aware SE...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Lavasoft, Ad-aware, Ad-Aware SE

Product reviews 2006-02-13

Additional Resources

Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.

fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...

Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Microsoft sheds 2,000-employee ad agency in $530 million deal

I think they mention Word just as an exampleI wouldn't cite Word as a propietary format that doesn't allow being searched - My take is that, even though it is propietary, it is well known and can be read by 3rd parties... The issue seems that in the future programs...

Tags: Workforce management, advertisement, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, job

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOL

With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOLAOL's decline not due to outsourcing search...I understand the comparison, but AOL's decline was not due to outsourcing search to Google. It declined because it was too slow in migrating to broadband and because it kept charging for too long what other properties...

Tags: INTERNET, Free trade, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Search Deal

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

El Nino evidence that global warming is real?

El Nino evidence that global warming is real?El Nino is not Global WarmingHow dumb are you? Meteorologists and oceanographers have been successfully predicting El Nino developments for decades. This is not the same as the relatively "young" science of atmospheric climatology.RE: El Nino evidence that global warming is real?Harry, ...

Tags: NOW IT, El Nino, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

Murdoch's plan to fix Web news is a good start but it needs aggregators

Murdoch's plan to fix Web news is a good start but it needs aggregatorsI don't think it would workWe are used to getting news for free, why pay for it?Oh yeah, I'm itching to pay for "content"Nonsense.Perhaps you don't remember how many "news" sites tried to charge for their "work"...

Tags: Web, editorial content, Internet, Ford Motor Co.

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

Anatomy of Microsoft's "It's a PC" ads

Anatomy of Microsoft's "It's a PC" adsPC adsWhy would M$ which doesn't even make a PC be so aggressive pitching a PC over a Mac? There's the rub. A company with a given 90% of the market is threatened by lil' ol' Apple? And Apple is just a hardware manufacturer,...

Tags: Desktops, M$ Office, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

Corrupting consolidation

Corrupting consolidationMessage has been deleted.RE: Corrupting consolidationBest post on ZDNet for some time now.I thoroughly agree. What I don't understand is why did it have to come to this, for people to start examining their purchasing decisions instead of blindingly handing out cash for bloatware.Hey we're suffering too , sit...

Tags: Oracle Corp., recession, consolidation, Marxism

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Lessons from Drupal

Lessons from DrupalTres Interestant!My cms: Movable Type. You'll need to know some Perl to write plugins.BTW Ars Technica just moved to Movable Type:http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2009/01/ars-chooses-cms-movable-type-welcome-to-ars-technica-v50.htmlLet me know if you have any interest in MT, I'll give you a login to check it out.Thanks Murph.--DietrichRE: Lessons from Drupalhey murph, try www.joomla.com as...

Tags: Content management, Drupal, Joomla

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Ballmer: 'Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better'

Ballmer: 'Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better'Here's a suggestionI noticed that some of your readers post comments only when you blog about the "Windows OS". I am doing it now to convey a point hereMy family member watched Oprah show yesterday, and mentioned that the topic...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Gates and Seinfeld - Part Deux

Gates and Seinfeld - Part DeuxMy wifeSaid that the ad seemed demeaning - some rich guys deigning to live with the riff-raff.You just don't get it...These ads are absolutely hysterical! I was literally ROTFLMAO from these ads. My rep sent me the talking points before the ad was aired, pointing...

Tags: Jerry Seinfeld, advertisement, Part Deux, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Building Windows, not walls

Building Windows, not wallsBuilding Windows, not wallsHooray for ZDNet duplication! Now we only need 5 more articles about this subject which will coincide with ZDNet agenda.[i]will reinvigorate Vista's image and make Microsoft less of an Apple chump.[/i]As of lately the chump has been Apple with their failures. This ad...

Tags: Construction, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, wall, Building Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Windows: You say major; I say minor

Windows: You say major; I say minorThey can call it anything they please. It is still overpriced JUNK.Get Linux :-)Duck the questionMaybe they should do another theme change. For a while it was a series number (3.1), then a year (95, 98, 98SE, 2000), then a letter combo XP,...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Ad-To-Ad Combat

Ad-To-Ad CombatSounds like malware bumping off the competition.Friend of mine got a drive by download that got pop ups of his computer may be infected and go to this website to download their dubious spyware removal utility.In the end it doesn't fight anything. Your database is sold to someone else...

Tags: Web browsers, Targeted Ads, advertisement, AdBlock

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Click Conversion Tracking of PPC and SE 1.9 (Windows)

Covert Conversion Pro CCP tracks ALL of your marketing activities that are generating traffic and sales- whether these are for the promotion of your own products or affiliate programs including: Pay Per Click PPC: Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN Adcenter; Organic traffic from search engines; and Other environments:...

Tags: Dr., Covert Conversion Pro, Marketing Research, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Sales

Software downloads 2008-06-13

Could an OEM like Dell every be as cool and as stylish as Apple?

Could an OEM like Dell every be as cool and as stylish as Apple?Interesting StatisticOwning 65% of the over $1000 market is an interesting statistic. What share do they have of the under $1000 market?RE: Could an OEM like Dell every be as cool and as stylish as Apple?I hadn't...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Apple Inc., Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

'Albany': New Microsoft 'home office' in the works?

'Albany': New Microsoft 'home office' in the works?Wow? Free Office??*Cough*Open Office*Cough*RE: 'Albany': New Microsoft 'home office' in the works?Cost-conscious consumers need a fully office-file-compatible product which includes simplified versions of Word, Excel, and Outlook. A $49-$99 price-point for such a tool would keep most budget-constrained consumers away from OpenOffice...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OpenOffice, Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, New Microsoft, home office

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

'Albany': New Microsoft 'home office' in the works?

Microsoft has begun inviting selected testers to be part of a beta of a new, consumer-focused Office-family product, codenamed "Albany." The beta invitation for Albany is cryptic, according to testers who received the invite and asked not to be named. Albany will be aimed at home PC...

Tags: Albany, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Works, Office Authoring Services, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Sun waits out Microsoft, gets some interoperability bang after all

What a nut I was. Back when Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced they would be joining forces on interoperability between Sun, nee Java, and .NET (remember Steve Ballmer [of "Ballmer and Butthead" fame) and Scott McNealy sitting side by side) I thought they meant it. I pushed...

Tags: Interoperability, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Client, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Programming Languages, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-10