Tag archive: Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla might be having trouble with its deadlines for Firefox 4, but when it comes to patching a dangerous hole in its browser, it acted remarkably quickly. On Tuesday, visitors of the Nobel Prize website were attacked by malware, which drove them to a hacker-controlled Taiwanese site that attempted to plant a Trojan on the unlucky users’ PCs. But the window for infiltrating vulnerable systems was shut quickly, as Mozilla responded with a patch… Read More

Sometimes, you just have to cheap out. Whether it’s picking up six-pack of Shasta at the grocery store rather than Coke, a packet of generic acetaminophen at the drug store rather than Tylenol, or a Kia Amanti instead of a Mercedes E-Class, the option to go with “close enough” is everywhere. Do it right, and you’ll save a bundle while never noticing the difference. Do it wrong, and you’ll curse the purchase every day for the next 10 years as… Read More

Netbooks make fine travel machines for surfing, typing and watching videos, but as most new owners eventually discover, things start to get a little slow when you push too far beyond the basics. After all, 1.6GHz and 1GB of RAM can only take you so far. But you needn’t resign yourself to typing in Notepad and playing Minesweeper whenever you leave the big guns at home in favor of a netbook. We’ve rounded up some of the best lightweight software… Read More