In my line of work I need to have a solid grasp of all commonly-used applications, their idiosyncrasies and their affordances.  This includes software I really don’t care to use from time to time (can you say “LMS”).  So with Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of IE8 having just been released I’ve opted to install the browser and then take it for a brief – and I mean BRIEF – spin around the block.
In the interests of sharing the experience, here are a slew of screenshots I took depicting the installation …

Here’s the story I keep expecting to go away, but instead it keeps growing bigger and more controversial by the minute.
Apple has recently begun to use and/or abuse their extraordinary share of the media player market held by iTunes as a jumping off point for spreading the uptake their Safari browser.  This has many PC users seriously miffed, and appears to have fanned the flames of the long-standing operating system war between Mac-heads and PC-users, which has been burning since the 1980s.
When installing iTunes, users are also required to install …

Via Mashable (“Firefox 3 Beta 2 Now Available :
“The holy grail of all us people who work in Firefox day in, day out (and, unfortunately, often endure slowdowns and lockups) – Firefox version 3 – seems to be near completion. As of today, Firefox 3 beta 2 is available for download and testing purposes; however, don’t get your hopes up just yet. As the folks of Mozilla say, ‘with this second beta, you’ll get a taste of what’s coming in Firefox 3, but there’s still more to come, and …