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At silverorange we created a basic list of what everyone uses for their daily tasks. It was mostly out of curiosity but pretty cool to see. Out of the 11 currently working at silverorange, 5 are on Linux, 4 on OSX and only 2 on Windows. A big change from just a couple years ago.

“Professional piracy is a serious problem for the software industry and costs Adobe an estimated US$700 million per year.”  •  Is this really accurate? Sure Photoshop is a very popular pirated application but is it costing Adobe anything besides the cost to fight piracy? They may not be making …

Recently I have been getting a popup advertisement on a regular basis with Firefox but the bigger problem is that I can't figure out what site is causing it, even trying to replicate it.  •  About once a day, I get a popup that minimizes undetected which I will find later after it is too late.

RSS: How well does this really work for sites that produce large amounts of daily content?  •  Having RSS built into your email client with Thunderbird is a dream and one less application to worry about. For me, RSS is nice to have until the sites you are subscribed to produces new content … read more »

Something this simple should not be so confusing. For the past month and about the time I installed SP2, time has become very frustrating. Everything always seems to be off by 10 minutes. TV news, Radio and Internet time sites never seemed to add up to what my own PC was saying. I would add or …

I mentioned ACDSee 5.0 here before, but now they are up to version 7. The software continues to add new features expanding what it's capable of. I really wanted something to index my increasing number of photo CDs and version 7 offered this.  •  The idea is that after creating a disk, you index … read more »

I've been using Miranda since the summer but over the past month or maybe even 2, I have had problems sending MSN messages. They would get delayed until either I sent a message to another contact or waited 12 to 24 hours later. This seems to be a known issue on the support forums with no solution …

This has been posted on a number of sites already but it's well worth a one more to spread the word.  •  Joe Maddalone from Insert Title Web Designs has found a way to run multiple  •  versions of IE on a single OS. To make the setup as simple as possible, Ryan Parman has provided the files for an …

It's now here, it's cool, it's fast but you still can't buy anything if you live in Canada.