August 19, 2008

The best free email account

Every computer user has their own opinions of the email free accounts that they use, but has there ever been an evaluation of them?
Well there has now and although this not the definitive test, it seems that Google’s Gmail has come out on top for the following reasons:
Gmail spam filters block 99% of the spam
Keep [...]

July 11, 2008

Mozilla gets world record certificate

The people behind Mozilla were in London to meet up with the official from the Guinness Book of World Records.
Tristan Nitot the President of Mozilla Europe was on hand to receive the certificate from the records manager of internet and technology at the Guinness Book of Records, Gareth Deaves.
On the certificate was written exactly [...]

June 23, 2008

Security flaws hit Firefox 3

At the time of writing there have been over fourteen million downloads of the new Firefox 3 which it has to be assumed most users have been happy with, but within hours of the now famous world record being achieved by Mozilla there are already some security issues.
But as this issue has not been resolved [...]

June 5, 2008

Acer turns to Linux

As with other makers of computers, Acer are turning to Linux as an alternative to Windows based operating systems, they have been promoting Linux in their low cost range, but they are now going to push this out on the Acer range of laptops too.
The brand of Linux that they are planning to use has [...]

May 13, 2008

Speed help on Firefox

Anyone new to Firefox could be forgiven for not knowing about any of the super fast tools that they give you. These tools are there to make life easier and of course faster.
But these tools have designed to make working on the internet a simpler and faster way of working which will once these tools [...]

March 19, 2008

Firefox 3 outperforms competition

Much has been written about Firefox and the recent release of the third version, normally you would expect the memory use to increase, but it would seem that the in the case of Firefox 3 this may not be the case in fact during tests the memory usage has actually fallen, which has to be [...]

March 6, 2008

IE8 is now ready

Apparently Microsoft has released their latest version of Internet Explorer, which is as you would expect imaginatively named 8! But this will come with some features that would make some peoples lives on the internet slightly better with both FaceBook and eBay integration.
But this fast release must have something do with the fact that recently [...]