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Keep Your Computer Safe
Every year more and more more and more malware goes around trying to wreak havoc on your computer. Here are some tools to help keep you safe:
- SpamBayes – A free spam filter plugin for Microsoft Outlook and IMAP/POP-compliant mail servers.
- Adaware – A popular spyware detection and removal tool for Windows.
- Spybot Search & Destroy – An alternative to Adaware. Now includes spyware removal, Internet Explorer integration, and real-time protection.
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 – If you don’t have a hardware firewall, the next best thing is the excellent free firewall included with Service Pack 2. Also comes with popup blocking.
- SpywareBlaster – Proactively blocks spyware, adware, browser hijackers, and dialers from being installed on your computer.
- AVG Anti-virus – A free antivirus program from Grisoft, including updated definitions.
May 30th, 2004 
Tags: Running OS X on a PC
Just saw a cool article on Slashdot about a neat utility called PearPC that lets you run PPC software (like Mac OS X) on your PC! It’s been reported that it’s slow as hell, however, but still a neat proof-of-concept.
- PearPC 0.1: Is It A Miracle? – Contains several screenshots
- Another Screenshot
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released
What a great way to start a Monday – version 0.6 of my favorite e-mail client, Mozilla Thunderbird, has been released. Find out what’s new and get it now!
Web Developer Plugin for Firefox
Wanda found a cool plugin for Firefox called Web Developer. It installs a toolbar in Firefox that allows you to alter all sorts of aspects of a web page, like dynamically modifying CSS, resizing, validation, and more. Very cool for the dedicated web developer.
Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.5 Released
Hot off the presses! Mozilla Firefox 0.8 (formerly Mozilla Firebird) and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 have been released! If you haven’t tried Mozilla yet, you might check out this article for some good reasons to make the switch. If you’re ready to download, here are some good mirrors:
This Just In – RealMedia Still Sucks
I found this humorous – RealNetworks files antitrust suit against Microsoft. Somebody should tell Real that the reasons nobody use their crappy video format is because people don’t like annoying, resource devouring adware with inferior video quality.
While we’re on the subject, Winamp 5 was released and it’s great!
ASP.NET on Apache
I just found out that it is possible to run ASP.NET on Apache using, amazingly enough, Microsoft open source sample web server, Cassini! That’s pretty cool, considering how incompatible Classic ASP was with non-Microsoft web servers. Hopefully it will only be a matter of time before someone writes an Apache module for it.
Java to Release Web Application Development Tool
Finally, Sun is finally understanding one of the reasons people like to develop applications with Microsoft technologies so much – a decent IDE. They are working on a new tool called Project Rave which is set to allow developers to quickly create Java-based web applications like Microsoft’s Web Matrix.
Now if they could only work on making Tomcat less horrible to use…
WebSphere Homepage Builder
I found a neat WYSIWYG HTML editor on IBM’s web site called WebSphere Homepage Builder. By default, it writes code using CSS-style layout instead of relying on tables. And the best part: it’s available for Linux too! Too bad they misspelled “home page” 
RedHat 9 Switch
Well, I finally did it. I made the “switch”. I’m now running RedHat 9 on my primary desktop. It wasn’t easy, and I waited ro post this until I was fairly sure I would uninstall it right away, but I’ve been running it for a week now. I even got it to work with my Promise RAID! I’ve found suitable replacements for Outlook, Office, Paint Shop Pro, and FileZilla. Click here for a screenshot (529k).
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