Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Windows 7 have come along well since the last build we looked at here. This latest pre-beta build (build 6956).

Lists … if there’s one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it’s lists. Throughout December I’ve planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit. Today’s list contains gift ideas for people trying to keep their tech energy bills down.

You know something funny, despite the current economic downturn, my Hardware 2.0 mailbox provides conclusive proof that there are folks out there who want to spend up to $1,000 on Intel’s newest piece of silicon – the Core i7 processor. But what do you need to get make your “Extreme” rig Core i7 ready?

I’ve just taken the Windows Mobile 6.1.4 emulator featuring Internet Explorer 6 for a spin. Conclusion: IE6 on Windows Mobile is better, but Microsoft still has a long way to go to make it brilliant.

Prices of PC components are falling weekly, and what $350 will buy you a lot more horsepower today that it would a few months ago.

When Microsoft shipped the 6801 build of Windows 7 some of the unfinished features were hidden from view using an elaborate protection mechanism. This mechanism has now been rendered useless thanks to the work of Rafael Rivera who developed a tool called Blue Badge.

Windows has always come equipped with troubleshooting and diagnostic tools, but in Windows 7 Microsoft has done something it should have done a long time ago and put them all together in one place in Control Panel.

Taking my first look at Windows 7.

The pre-release version of Firefox 3.1 becomes the latest browser to feature porn mode, em, I mean, private browsing.

Interested in how Windows 7 is getting along? Take a look at this series of screenshots to find out!

A look at pre-beta Vista SP2

With only ten days to go until Ubuntu 8.10 is released I decided to take a look at the latest beta to see what the new release has to offer. Oddly enough, “Intrepid Ibex” feels more like a service pack to me than a new release.