Over the past several years, Microsoft has practically done a one-eighty, becoming a lot more security conscious. This has become quite evident with XP’s Service Pack 2, which enabled the Windows firewall by default. Having the firewall automatically enabled was a major step forward, since it was the one major thing needed to protect the [...]

Imagine never again having to plug-in your cell phone, laptop, or iPod to recharge it. Imagine being able to get rid of those cluttered power strips, or that wire mess behind your computer. Well, the solution to these grievances may be coming soon.
Assistant Professor Martin Soljacic from the MIT Department of Physics and Research Laboratory [...]

Have you ever wondered why that brand new hard drive that was supposedly 80 gigabytes turns out to be a mere 74.5 gigabytes according to your operating system? What happened to that extra space? Did the operating system take it? Was it lost to partitioning? Or, did the Byte Fairy take [...]

Out with the Old, in with the New

It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen a major update for either Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Mozilla’s Firefox. In fact, the previous version of Internet Explorer came out just before Windows XP, back in August of 2001. Likewise, Mozilla’s last major update to their browser wasn’t very [...]