Bill Gates: ["Vista Sucks"] [video]

Gizmodo recently interviewed Bill Gates at CES. They posed a carefully worded question to the man and got a surprisingly frank answer…

Wow. See more of the interview at Gizmodo.

David Letterman on Bill Gates retirement. [video]

Windows Compatibility Tool “VMware Fusion” updated.

Want a Mac but can’t bear the thought of not being able to run your favorite Windows applications? Haven’t you heard? Macs do Windows. (In some cases better than any PCs) There are several methods for getting Windows running on Mac. You could use “Bootcamp” (Which comes with the latest version of Mac’s operating system.) and allows you to pick which OS to run when you turn on your computer, or you could use virtualization software such as “Parallels” or “VMWare Fusion” which lets you run Windows programs within Mac’s OS.

VMWare features a tool called “Unity” which allows your applications to run as if they were a native Mac application. Check out the video above for an example of Unity in action. Then head over to VMWare’s site to read more about it.

A Vista commercial we’d like to see… [video]

Funny commercial I stumbled across. Click the thumbnail to view.

Manage your virtual desktops with Virtue Desktops [video]

What’s a virtual desktop you ask? Check out the video below… 

Read about it on LifeHacker.Com

 

 

Looking for a good movie to rent?

I posted this a while ago but I’ve decided to refresh the post since there are a lot more readers now than when I first posted this.

Look for a copy of ”Pirates of Silicon Valley”. Based upon the book, Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer, by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, this film documents the rise of the home computer/personal computer through the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft. Here’s a clip…

Vista Prevents Users Playing High-Def Content

Content protection features in Windows Vista are preventing customers from playing high-quality video and audio and harming system performance, even as Microsoft neglects security programs that could protect users, computer researcher Peter Gutmann argued at the USENIX Security Symposium in Boston Wednesday. “If there was any threat modeling at all, it was really badly done,” Read more.

Watch Bill Gates answer to the Dept. Of Justice [video]

Here is a snippet from an 17 hour DVD set which you can obtain by contacting the poster. “What we’ve got here is Bill Gates raw, lively, on the hot seat and uncensored like no interview you’ve ever seen before.”

Hacking Vista… Easier than you think [video]

Local hackers who’ve gone legit show how even Windows Vista is prone to security breaches. PC security experts from eEye Digital in Aliso Viejo demonstrate how and warn the rest of us to patch our software…

[via firebug.co.za]

McWindows out of McMemory [video]

Priceless.

(Click thumbnail for video.) 

One Day… [video]

Held off on posting this one until I was on a PC that had sound. Someone thought it’d be funny to take Microsoft’s promotional video for “Surface” and mock it. They were right. It is.

Microsoft Research’s Multi-touch laptop demoed [video]

Bill Gates Live Windows 98 Crash [video]

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of this one.

I once made an audio clip from it which I used as my Windows error sound effect. I had to get rid of it though because hearing it that many times a week… it got old quick.

iLoad copies DVDs straight to iPods, iPhone

MacNN reports: Silicon Valley’s Wingspan today announced that users can now directly copy a DVD to an iPhone or iPod — without using a computer. The company’s iLoad device can transfer either an entire DVD or CD or the tracks of the user’s choice as well as the album and track information directly to the iPod without using a computer, iTunes or Internet connection. Read more.

Bloatware tests

Have you seen that new Apple “Get a Mac” ad about PCs being loaded with bloatware? Have you wondered how truthful it is? The folks over at PC Pitstop performed their own study to determine how bad the problem REALLY is.

Humour: Microsoft bans Hitler’s 360 from Live. [video]

Stumbled across this. Thought it was funny. Now I share.

Microsoft Top Secret Product Revealed: “Surface”

Microsoft “innovates” again with table top pc version of iphone screen. Color me confused. Wasn’t this technology created by Jeff Han? Wasn’t it licensed or bought by Apple for the iphone and possibly future Macs?

read more | digg story

Running OSX and Windows XP on Ubuntu [video]

So what exactly IS this Linux thing you keep hearing about? What is Ubuntu? Well to put it simply, Linux is a free alternative to Windows. And Ubuntu is a fancy version of Linux. This video shows just how fancy it is.

YouTube comes to the Apple TV

alanquatermain presents a video featuring “A Series of Tubes”, a plug-in by Xdog that brings YouTube to the Apple TV. Watch the AwkwardTV plug-in directory for its appearance, which can be expected to be soon.

read more | digg story

When Viacom and Microsoft are in business together… [video]

This is what we get.Could this be MS’s influence on Viacom? (Parent company of CBS, Late Show, and Letterman.) as a result of being in business together? It’s a stretch I know.

SystM Episode 7 - Hacking AppleTV [Video]

Patrick Norton and Dave Randolph take you through some of the more popular hacks and mods out there for the AppleTV. They have sorted out all the articles out there and have come up with a complete step by step procedure to help you get your AppleTV up and running with a larger drive, SSH, Xvid and a RSS reader.

read more | digg story

Apple hints at video rentals through iTunes

Apple Inc. did not make any material announcements during its shareholders meeting on Thursday, but did hint that it will offer video rentals through iTunes at some point in the future. “Timing of this is difficult to determine, but we would expect [iTunes video rentals] sometime in 2008,” said analyst Gene Munster, who attended the meeting.

read more | digg story

Slingbox and Apple TV (Video)

Video demo from the Sling Media Labs, shows how it’s possible to watch and control an Apple TV through Slingbox, and stream iTunes content to a smartphone or laptop. It’s enough to make any Apple fanboy drool.

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Xbox 360 Elite Prone to Same Problems as Others

We’ve had numerous reports coming in of users getting 3 red lights on their brand new Elite consoles this morning. The disc scratching issue is back as well. Microsoft has introduced another new product that is failing at a higher than normal rate. Seriously Microsoft, did you completely get rid of your QA department?

read more | digg story

Windows Vista Suicide Courtesy of McAfee [Video]

Windows Vista, Microsoft’s extensively applauded most secure Windows platform to date can be taken down [hard] by nothing more than a mere animated cursor. Want to see the bug in action?

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Vista Security

The Proper Way To Install Windows Vista.

Windows Vista’s Voice “Wreck”ognition in action.