Monthly Archives: September, 2008
Yahoo Open: Finally, a real answer to Google
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–On Friday, 300 programmers will descend upon Sunnyvale, Calif., to plant the seeds of what Yahoo hopes will be an answer to Google’s Internet might. Yahoo co-founder and Chief Yahoo David Filo (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News) The event is called Open Hack Day 2008, and at it the coders will be the first …
Flash 10 beta update means you should, too
The ongoing problems with Flash freezing in Firefox 3 after two seconds of playback resemble nothing less than a game of hot potato. Or perhaps watching two parents have a screaming match, with us regular ol’ users playing the part of the sobbing kid that cries, “Why can’t you two just get along?” Adobe has …
Firefox 3.1 to gain modicum of privacy
Of the two big browsing features of 2008, one seems to run counter to where developers are driving their browsers. The melding of the location bar to the search bar was expected in Firefox and Opera, thanks to beta versions. Chrome has it, too, calling it the Omnibar. What seems to have caught developers off-guard …
Fix ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error in Windows Vista
A recent and annoying ‘bug’ in Windows Vista (both 32- and 64-bit versions) is the ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error. This happens almost whenever you browse a folder containing media files like mp3, avi, wav etc. A lot of people have attributed this to the presence of non Vista-compatible codecs installed on the computer. …
High expectations from Google Chrome
Some are calling Google’s new browser Chrome an “Internet Explorer killer.” Others venture further and call it a “Windows killer.” Whether Google’s newly launched browser has Microsoft quaking is unclear, but there’s no doubt that Google is serious about “organizing the world’s information”—and is prepared to shake up the status quo in the process. It …
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