Windows: Windows 7′s only been out for six weeks, but that doesn’t mean you haven’t experienced the occasional crash. Previously mentioned utility WhoCrashed has updated with Windows 7 support, giving you detailed information on what exactly caused your computer to go down.
Google’s extension gallery for its Chrome browser opened for business this morning. We’ve taken a look around the offerings—most of them, anyways—and pulled out a few picks that deserve a spot in your formerly pristine browser.
Windows/Mac/Linux: A whopping two years after its second major release, Mozilla’s popular desktop email client Thunderbird is now available as the new and improved Thunderbird 3.0, and there’s a lot to love in the new Thunderbird.
Last year, December 20-24 were dark days I’d like to forget. This year, I had found 80 percent of my gifts by December 1. The big difference? Smart use of the free Evernote service to keep a year-round gift idea database.
According to a study conducted by computer security company Sophos, 41 to 46 percent of users they test-requested friendship with on Facebook accepted their invitation. The problem, as they see it: After becoming friends with people they don’t know, they’ve got access to full dates of birth, email addresses, the places they went to school, the town in which they live, and a lot more—basically a whole lot of the things an identity theft would need to get the ball rolling.
You’ve seen what Boxee’s beta media centre software will look like. Now you can peek at pictures and specifications for D-Link’s official Boxee Box, a small computer with HDMI outputs made specifically to run the open-source media centre.
