Microsoft Surface

(Windows Surface with Type cover)

Microsoft held a conference yesterday and I am pleasantly surprised by what they announced. Two tablets and accessories. One with an ARM processor, and one with an Intel processor.

Response to PowerMax.com's "Top Ten Reasons Macs Are Better Than PCs"

This article was posted on /g/ and I thought I'd respond to it. Be warned though, it contains copious amounts of bias and stupidity.
Here is the link: The Top Ten Reasons Macs Are Better Than PCs

Here is my response:

Windows 8 on my laptop

I got my laptop back (had to send it in to school to get all school owned programs wiped from it) so I replaced the 2.5" HDD with my Corsair Force F60 SSD and installed Windows 8 Release Preview on it. I must say, Windows 8 on a laptop like this, is fantastic. There seems to be a bug where I got like 50% chance of getting a blue screen when I start from sleep mode, but other than that it's great.
Very smooth even with mediocre specs (core 2 duo and 4GB of RAM, integrated graphics) and it really feels like the limited resolution gets used efficiently with the new GUI. Booting takes about 20 seconds, and more than half of that time seems to be the BIOS loading. Yeah, starting the BIOS takes longer than fully booting the whole OS.

The new "Retina" Macbook Pro

The only interesting thing announced at Apple's WWDC was the new Retina Macbook Pro. They also announced iOS 6, some things for OS X Lion and other stuff, but to me, the biggest thing by far was the Macbook Pro.

(Photo from Anandtech)

Oh Microsoft you so crazy

Why can't Apple keynotes be this awesome?

Apple now owns yet another ridiculous patent

You guys have seen those trendy ultrabooks, right? Very light weight and thin laptops with somewhat decent processors, an SSD and usually pretty nice screens.
Well, most of them uses a triangular shape, where the front (where the touch pad is located) is quite a bit thinner than the back, where the battery is located. They look kind of like this:

Asus tablets I am actually excited about

As some of you probably know, I am not a fan of those tablets like the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. However, I have seen at least 2 tablets announced at Computex this year. Both of which are from Asus. The one which I am most excited about is this one:

Lots of passwords stolen

Seems like a lot of sites have had security breaches recently.
I assume lots of you have already heard of LinkedIns' users passwords being stolen, about 6.5 million of them in fact. However, it seems like the same people have stolen about 1.5 million passwords from the site eHarmony. It doesn't end there though, because passwords have leaked from Last.fm as well.
Seems like Reddit might be involved as well, but nothing is confirmed yet.
So if you use any of these sites, update your passwords and preferably use different passwords for each site.

Apple seek ban on the Galaxy S 3

This is not even funny anymore... For **** sake Apple, what the hell are you doing?
So apparently Apple is trying to get the Galaxy S 3 banned, because S Voice is too much like Siri. I wonder if Apple realize Almost all icons, the background and the functionality of S voice was already in the Galaxy S 2, which was released long before the iPhone 4S were. If anything, it's Apple who is copying Samsung.
I hate Apple so much right now... They are not even trying to compete anymore, just ban everyone else who is a threat seems to be Apple's strategy. Maybe because pretty much all their own products sucks?

Source: Engadget

High five Asus!

Some people are accusing Asus for being "sexists" because they made a funny comment on one of their models. Some (stupid) people see this as being sexists, which is in my opinion just wrong for a few reasons. Here is the awesome tweet:

Update your Windows machine fast!

It seems like the malware called "Flame" has managed to obtain a certificate which looks like it is a genuine one from Microsoft. What happens is that the malware will try to do a man-in-the-middle attack. It will trick Windows into thinking it is receiving a legit update from Microsoft, and install it. A patch is already out which removes the certificate from the list of trusted ones in Windows. The update is called "KB2718704" and everyone should install it eminently. It is available through the Windows Update and Microsoft's website. Please only install this update before installing any other update.

There is no need to panic, but you should update as fast as possible because this is a pretty big security hole.
From F-Secure's article:
>I guess the good news is that this wasn't done by cyber criminals interested in financial benefit. They could have infected millions of computers. Instead, this technique has been used in targeted attacks, most likely launched by a Western intelligence agency.

Most info can be found here: F-Secure's website

Yet another post about Internet bullying

I thought I would make another one, because I saw something really ridiculous on TV a few days ago.

Windows 8 Release Preview

The Windows 8 Release Preview is now out. This is pretty much the final version of Windows 8. You can download it from Microsoft's website here, if you feel it testing it out.