Often times we find ourselves wondering whether Vista's harshest critics have ever used the operating system for more than an hour or two, if at all, because their complaints aren't usually justified. You really have to use it for at least a month or two before you realize how nice it is to have, say, the option to perform searches right from the Start menu. It also takes

Microsoft has done a fantastic job with Windows Live Photo Gallery, and it's definitely become my favorite way to manage photos. There's been no mention as to when the next version of Windows Live Photo Gallery will be coming out, but one thing that you can look forward to is facial recognition.

News of this comes from a Chinese site (LiveSide has translated it)

Flock has always been focused on the social side of the web, and there's no browser that integrates better with all of the popular social networks. They have decided to take it one step further by offering a special edition of their browser that is targeted towards fashion and entertainment enthusiasts that adore the color pink.

When you first fire up the Flock Gloss Edition browser you'll probably be taken back by it's vast use

Tutorial Thursday

Windows only
One of the things that I've always done on my Windows computers is have them show all of the hidden files. Some people think I'm crazy because this adds a lot more clutter, but it always seemed as though I frequently had to access files there were otherwise hidden. Sure I liked when

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Just when you thought we had enough web browsers available another goes and pops up right under our noses. That's exactly what the Japanese browser called Sleipnir did, and it's managed to scrounge up 9% of the browser market share in Japan.

What's so special about Sleipnir? It reminds me a lot of Maxthon and Avant Browser in what it

Windows; Mac
It's hard to believe that it has already been one year since TechSmith released their free Jing screencast and screenshot software. The project has been amazingly successful, and I can't say that I'm really surprised by that. Jing is simple to use, free, and more often than

One of the features that many people are quick to point out is missing from the iPhone is voice dialing. Hundreds of phones offer such a feature and when the new iPhone 3G didn't have it, people were left wondering why. Soon the iPhone will have at least a few voice-type features thanks to technology that AT&T is researching and developing. It won't give iPhone owners voice calling,