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Microsoft just announced today that the next version of Silverlight, the 2.0 will be ready for shipment tommorow, 14 October. Another good news is that, due to the WSUS service capabilities, Silverlight will automatically be upgraded silently. What this means is if you already have SIlverlight 1.0 or above, it will automatically upgrade itself quietly. Brian [...]

There comes a time in our lives, when we are faced with the all mighty Linux, we want it or not (ok, maybe some of you are just lucky ). Either you want to install it at your place, help a friend who purchased a computer with Linux installed or you just purchased a Linux [...]

Apple released its 7th security update for this year, security update that fixes several bugs in the system, some minor security updates but also several critical updates such as a bug that allowed arbitrary code execution within the OS. The update addresses several other issues such as Weblog Server’s vulnerability, a heap buffer overflow in [...]

Many users, including myself, had problems with the Realtek sound card’s drivers on Windows Vista. The most often problem is that you have no sound in Vista, no matter what. There are many sound cards based on the Realtek Ac’97 chipset and this may become a nightmare for fresh Vista installations. However, this problem can be [...]

It’s not news that Linux became a very popular OS among the average computer users and with several good Linux distributions available, Linux has also become a preferred operating system. A such Linux distribution is Mandriva and I’m sure many of you are familiar with it as it combines the Linux power with stability and [...]

Although Firefox took a large part of the browser market, Opera is not dead, in fact, it’s alive and kicking with a new updated version, the 9.6. This latest Opera version wants to be a stability and security update, but Huib Kleinhout, Opera Desktop Team manager tells us it’s more than that:: “Opera 9.6 adds synchronization [...]

Microsoft released 2 days ago the Touchless SDK multi-touch technology. This basically means that developers will have the possibility of building multi-touch applications using a webcam and a color marker. Utilizing the webcam, applications can track the location and size of the color marker to enable multi-touch functionality without touching a surface, as stated by [...]

Media Players are essential for any computer, either you play movies or listen to music, you need a good media player to fulfill your multimedia needs. Here are the best free multimedia players of 2009, voted and favored here on FileCluster. VLC Media Player This is probably the most voted player of all, capable of playing files [...]

For managing the Mac OS X firmware password, you can use the Open Firmware Password application. This works with Mac OS X 10.1 and later. For further details regarding managing Mac OSX firmware protection, read Apple’s online documentation. There are several easy steps to disable the mac’s firmware password: 1. Launch the Open Firmware Password application 2. [...]

I can’t say I’m surprised, but I really appreciate Barack Obama’s intentions and initiatives. After social media networking websites, now, the political campaigns are brought to us directly on the iPhone. The application “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly,” as we [...]