Windows 7 RC vs Anti Virus

After giving up on Norton’s NIS, I was protectionless for a few days.  It was nervewrecking enough that I just can’t do it any more.  So I resumed my search for the next temporary solution.  Here’s a brief summary:
Norton 360 is out.  Even the most current version is incompatible with Windows 7 and it doesn’t [...]

Windows 7 RC vs Norton Internet Security (Pre-release)

Bleeding edge has its price.  Per my earlier post some weeks ago, the old Norton Internet Security (Vista compatible) doesn’t work with Windows 7 Beta or Windows 7 RC.  Symantec posted a pre-release version of NIS that does work.  So all was well… for a little while.  After 14 days, the subscription expired and it [...]

Tinkerbell doesn’t use Mac (A revelation from playing with Windows Mobile 6.5)

Earlier today, I decided to play around with Windows Mobile 6.5.  I’ve been itching to re-flash my Tilt (a la HTC Kaiser).  How bad can it be, right?   Errr… wrong.
After a couple of hours of reading, I got all the parts together… or so I thought.  Another 30 minutes later, I replaced the bootloader with [...]

DNS-321 vs Network Performance

In the past few months, I’ve been experiencing some intermittent network performance issue.  I never spent much time on figuring it out as most of the time it manifest as XBox Live videos not streaming cleanly from the net to the XBox 360.  I figure it must be a glitch with XBox Live or cable [...]