Computer company Acer’s UK marketing director seems to think he knows when Windows 7 will be released. His claim: October 23. By most accounts, this date seems a little off. Over at Gizmodo, for example, Jason seems to think it’ll be much sooner; ZDNet thinks it’ll be more like July. Still others are still expecting a 2010 release. The first (and potentially only) Windows 7 Release Candidate is already available subscriber channels, so the full release certainly could come very soon. Then again, Microsoft isn’t exactly known for speedy releases, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see. [Gizmodo]
Reader John writes in with a tip to prevent Windows from continuing a shutdown operation—very useful for those times you want to shutdown but you accidentally chose restart.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Built from the Firefox core, free web browser Wyzo integrates BitTorrent capabilities, download acceleration, and much more—though you can get many of Wyzo’s best features in Firefox if you’re not up for the switch.
When you’ve got extremely limited space to work in and a specific vision for how you want your workspace laid out, building your workspace to suit is the only economical way to go about it.
Popular feed aggregation web site FriendFeed was already the perfect tool to aggregate your online social life, but now the site pushes out every update in real-time.
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Long URL Please changes almost all shortened links in a page back to the real URL—so you can easily see where a link is really taking you.
Web application Flipping Typical detects and previews installed fonts on your system with any text you want.
One definite advantage Twitter, amongst other social networks, has over Facebook is RSS feeds, allowing web-savvy users to filter and re-purpose updates however they’d like. Facebook application Newsfeed RSS evens the scales a bit.
You’re trying to check for important messages on your iPhone, Android, or other Java-friendly phone. The thread about the next book club meeting has devolved into a Phillip Roth argument that’s spawning 8 new pundi-mails per hour. What to do?
