http://baygeeks.com/blog Thoughts, Tips, News and Articles From Computer Folks. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:52:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hot on the heels of this month’s security bulletin, a new vulnerability exploit surfaces with a malware in tow. The new zero-day vulnerability, as described in a previous post, prompted Microsoft to release Security Advisory (981374) while investigations are still underway. This Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability exists due to an ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/03/11/new-ie-zero-day-exploit-cve-2010-0806/ Sophos has posted an article about a fake offer regarding the upcoming gadget from Apple, the iPad. The team behind the spam sets up a Facebook page where it encourages a user to become a fan of its page. Then, it encourage the user’s friends to become fans of the page ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/03/08/free-facebook-ipad-beta-test-offer-is-a-scam/ Microsoft kicked off its "Technology Guarantee" program for Office 2010 on Friday, meaning that anyone who buys and activates Office 2007 between now and Sept. 30 will get to upgrade to Office 2010 for free when it's available. Microsoft also confirmed Friday that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/03/06/microsoft-announces-free-office-2010-upgrade/ Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, The Wall Street Journal reports. The move would further turn Gmail, which revolutionized online e-mail, into a comprehensive communications hub. The intent is to keep ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/02/09/google-making-gmail-into-a-communications-hub/ Growing percentage of internet users are becoming active users of social networks, represented especially by the increasingly popular Facebook. Easy sharing of personal photos and videos, keeping in touch with friends and family, instant messaging as part of the website, and a wealth of additional applications - all these features ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/02/02/using-social-networks-like-facebook-inadvisable-without-proper-protection/ The average life expectancy of a desktop is 3-5 years and a laptop is 2-3. Like cars or anything else in this day and age, the manufacturers are engineering obsolescence aka planned obsolescence. It doesn't make sense for a car manufacturer to make a car that lasts for 10-20 years when they can ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/12/14/what-kind-of-computer-should-i-get/ With Microsoft's Windows Mobile unit having run in slow motion for the past several years, it doesn't surprise me that there are calls for the company to get out of the phone business. The more interesting question raised in this New York Times blog, to me, is whether Microsoft flat out ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/12/14/is-it-game-over-for-microsoft-on-consumer-front/ Apple has reportedly delayed shipments of its 27-inch iMac model to resellers as reports of screen flickering issues have grown. Apple authorized resellers have reported delays in shipments of new 27-inch iMac models due to reports of display problems. Reports of flickering screens and yellow-tinged displays have become more common around ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/12/14/apple-delays-imac-orders-as-reports-of-display-issues-rise/ A survey of 30,000 laptops has found one in three machines die within three years and netbooks do even worse, suffering 20 per cent more hardware failures than larger laptop machines. Apple is fourth placed for reliability behind, in ascending order, Sony, Toshiba and in first place Asus. To be fair ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/11/19/macs-not-all-that-for-reliability/ The World Wide Web is about to go global. Countries have been invited to propose internationalized domain names based on non-Roman characters and Egypt has proposed the first domain name to use the Arabic script. The move comes less than a month after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ... http://baygeeks.com/blog/11/16/internet-takes-another-step-toward-being-truly-worldwide/