In the open-source world, one of the champions, OpenOffice, has been updated to 3.0. OpenOffice has been improved to be more user-friendly and now runs natively runs on the Mac, which means it’s faster.
By the grace of God or my incessant bitching yesterday, Lifehacker posted how to stop the Windows Update window from popping up again.
Start
Run
Type sc stop wuauserv.
Press Enter.
Live in peace without that Automatic Updates pop-up.
Thank you, Lifehacker. I love you! That weird kind of geek-love.
I always wished for the option of “Do not remind me for 8 hours” in the constant “Automatic Updates” reminder. Yeah, yeah, I know I need to be more responsive to the Windows Update process but it’s just so futile. Oh, how I drown in my hatred for Windows.
I love dynamic growing communities like Digg and Netscape. Digg I most certainly prefer since it has a grassroots following. Anyhow, Kevin Rose updated the site of Digg again. From his own PR Blog:
Interface Design, Digg Goes Widescreen
We’ve gone from a fixed width layout to a flexible one allowing you to make use of your [...]