Microsoft Free Antivirus tomorrow

Microsoft to Launch Free Anti-Malware Beta To-Morro

We've been hearing this is coming for awhile, and Paul Thurrott lets us know the day is finally here. Free antivirus from Microsoft.

Be sure to pre-order Windows 7 or pay more!!!

http://windowsitpro.com/windowspaulthurrott/article/articleid/102303/pricing-malfunction-how-microsoft-will-bungle-the-windows-7-launch.html

The skinny is that if you don’t pre-order Win7 (Home Premium Upgrade) for $50 during the limited window at the end of June, you will have to pay $100 for it thereafter!! Thanks to Paul Thurrott for digging into this and getting the word out.

Down with displays!

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV748?mco=OTU3MDQ1

We’re getting closer all the time to something I have been looking forward to and talking up for almost a decade, display-less mobile computers. Imagine if your mobile device didn’t have a display, but rather a built-in projector. (I used to say laptop, but cell phones have so much computing power these days that they are giving them a run for the money in the mobile space.)

 

You could point it at any wall and get as big or small a monitor as you needed. Keep you spreadsheet private on the cubical wall, but enlarge it to see the detail on a graph. Bring it into the conference room and show everybody the graph. Instead of watching movies huddled around a laptop on vacation, you could just download some to your phone and show them on a wall.

Knee of the curve baby…

Apple lost an iPhone sale tonight

I was there, clicking to buy, when I was brought up short by the price coming up on the screen as TWICE as much as advertised earlier today. As if! Lost Sale.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5283568/real-cost-of-iphone-3gs-about-218-more-than-you-think

VzAccess

It took me a couple of hours to find this information, so I will post it here in the hope that it will help somebody else.. You can get the latest and correct VzAccess from http://www.vzam.net . This is the Verizon Wireless software used to set up and connect to broadband services like EVDO, using wireless devices like pc cards and the mifi.

Spinning circle replaces hourglass

I don’t know when this happened, but I am just realizing I haven’t seen an hourglass in years. Instead they’ve all been replaced by versions of (thanks Wikipedia!) this:

Microsoft’s is colored and looks more like a wheel, but same idea. Who threw the switch?

Wolfram Alpha – new computational (search) engine

http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+from+Earth+to+Alpha+Centauri+divided+by+55+miles+per+hour+divided+by+24+hours+per+day+divided+by+365+days+per+year

http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=temperature+of+the+sun+divided+by+the+distance+between+the+sun+and+the+earth

http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+president+in+1996

http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+between+chicago+and+new+york+city

Like as with any oracle, the key seems to be asking the right question… Put any good queries you come up with in the comments.

Stanford University iPhone Class iTunes Url

Anybody besides me subscribed to the Stanford University iPhone development course podcast on iTunes?  The videos download automatically. However every couple of days I have to hunt down the URL for the accompanying PDFs:

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.2024353965

Free “Age of Empire”-type games

I recently came across:

Evony ( http://www.evony.com )

and

Heroes of Wesnoth ( http://www.wesnoth.org )

Evony is browser-based (Flash), while Wesnoth is a open-source pc game with stand-alone and multi-player online modes. If any one has experience with either one please comment.

New Netbook King: Asus Eee PC 1000HE

http://www.amazon.com/1000HE-10-Inch-Netbook-Intel-Processor/dp/B001QTXL82

A caller on Twit (http://twit.tv) said that he got 7 hours of battery life on the 6 cell (not 9 cell) battery. That's revolutionary.

The new atom processor, a Gig of ram, 160 Gig drive, XP, 802.11n...

$384.52 with free shipping from Amazon.

You can bump up the ram to 2G for about $20.

And to top it all off, a glowing review it the latest print issue of MaximumPC, a gamer magazine.