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Mozilla outs Thunderbird 3.1 alpha

Filed under: E-mail, Mozilla

Mozilla finally released version 3 of their Thunderbird desktop email client last December, and they now have their attention focused on a minor bump to 3.1. Last night the first alpha build was made available, and it sports the usual handful of changes and improvements.

Among the tweaks are enhancements to stability and [...]

Operetta Advance theme makes Firefox look like Opera 10

Filed under: Internet, Browsers

Up until today I’ve been using a dark Firefox theme. It looked quite pretty, but eventually I got tired of not being able to read the black text on some of the dialogs (yes, I’ve tried tweaking userchrome.css — multiple times).

So I’ve set out in search of a lighter theme which [...]

One Button Bob is a retro Time Waster

Filed under: Fun, Games, Retrocomputing

One Button Bob can only be played with an ultra high-tech Boomslang five-button gaming mouse. Well, that’s not actually true. That’s tech writing for you. To be honest, to play One Button Bob you do need just one button.

This retro-tastic little gem casts you as a fictional character (you’re [...]

Facebook simplifies home page layout, inevitable complaining begins

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0

Facebook has made some minor alterations the layout of its home page, aimed at simplifying your social networking experience. As with the last 5 design changes Facebook has made, this one has riled up users and inspired “bring back the old Facebook” groups. What’s to get excited about, though? The [...]

Best Way To Make Money Online As Good As Google Adsense Or Amazon Affiliates?

My wife and I are aware of Amazon Affiliates and Google Adsense as the best ways to make money from a website. Do you know of another ads, product selling, or affiliate program that does as well or better than these two?

Boot Snooze combines the goodness of hibernation and rebooting

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware

You want to shut down your Windows PC for the day, but you also want it to start as quickly as possible tomorrow morning. Waiting 3-4 minutes to load Windows plus all of the apps that you run at startup just isn’t a (good) option. What do you do? You [...]

Movist is a strong VLC alternative for Mac

Filed under: Video, Macintosh, Freeware, Open Source

Though Macs ship with a reasonably good video player in the shape of QuickTime Player, the sheer number of different types of video files that are available out there can be frustrating to keep up with. You have to install various plugins to make QuickTime compatible with them all. [...]

CinemaDrape blacks out distractions so you can focus on the task at hand

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Windows x64

Avoiding distractions on while working your computer can be tricky business. Fortunately, there are plenty of great, free apps out there to help you get things done!

CinemaDrape, for example, is a great way to turn off the “background noise” so you can focus on one particular app or area [...]

Zynga brings FarmVille to Windows Live Messenger and MSN Games

75 million unique users simply isn’t enough, as far as Zynga’s concerned! Using the power of Facebook Connect, Zynga — the developer of FarmVille, Cafe World, Mafia Wars and others — is bringing FarmVille to Windows Live Messenger and MSN Games.

Back in November 2009 Zynga announced that over 100 million unique users were visiting their [...]

How Do Companies Make Money When You Buy A Stock?

Looks like a simple question but there are more details:
When you sell a share are you directly (through brokers) selling that share to another buy or do you sell it back to the company and the company then sells it to you?
If not then companies can only make money once, when the share is first [...]