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Eat your heart out, Android users, at long last Adobe Flash is on the way to an Apple iPad or iPhone, with one huge advantage: you don't need Flash, sort of.

Ahoy, shipmates! There'll be no more of this LimeWire free download shenanigans aboard this fine vessel. Yes, P2P 'pirates' are singing a sad sea shanty: it seems that the LimeWire file-sharing service has finally been silenced by the RIAA and the usual chorus of record companies. The long-running legal opus reached a crescendo in a New York court, as the judge told the Lime Company to knock it off, presto. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers join in and clap their hands. Not to mention Fun With Travel Safe Activities...

When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised. Firefox was way more popular than the Konquerer browser and had a lot more open source developers on line. Well now that decision is starting to pay some dividends - in amazing speed.

The conventional wisdom, that Mac's OS X is superior to Windows Vista, is flat-out wrong. In fact, despite much belief to the contrary, Vista is a superior operating system. Here are five reasons why.

The final version of OpenOffice 3 is out today, and if you're looking to save yourself plenty of money, download it instead of buying Microsoft Office --- you could save yourself hundreds of dollars, and not lose out on many features. I've got details and screenshots in my blog.

Computerworld's Online Editorial Director Scot Finnie recently started using a MacBook Pro for his main work computer, in order to determine if it's a "viable alternative for real people with real jobs." Have you recently switched from Windows to a Mac at work? Was it a smooth experience, or were there hiccups? Share your thoughts below.

Some Windows users are greeted with a black screen of death at login, ever since they installed this month's patches. One security company thought it had a solution. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate what's going on. Not to mention too much time on his hands...
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Q: Why do you need Digital Copy to copy your DVDs?

A: You shouldn't.

An ex-Microsoft employee appears to have leaked the release date for Windows 8 -- as well as Windows Server 2012 and Office 15. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers shun the iPad hype and imagine the free beta download within a year. Not to mention an Impressive backwards basketball shot...
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The Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 8 release date will be 2012, according to Steve Ballmer; he even used that actual name. And it's going to get its first official demo next week, we hear. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers analyze a surprisingly complex story. Not to mention: FreakyFonts: Inspired by C64, Amiga, and classic arcade games...

The newest desktop Linux vs. the newest Windows -- and the winner is ...

I could have used this bit of help yesterday when I was working with two spreadsheets that I wanted to view on my two monitors here at work.

On his blog Ant Drewery shows us how to change the File Type options for Excel (or any kind of documents that are automatically grouped together) so that multiple documents will open up in their own instance of Excel.

Good stuff for those of us who want to make the most of our multiple screen systems.

Cool! It's IT Blogwatch: in which a new search engine, Cuil, tries to usurp Google's dominance. Not to mention hip hip hooray for DNA...

Dan Nystedt reports:

Just browsing IT Blogwatch, in which the browser wars rumble on, with early plans afoot for IE8 and Firefox 3/4. Not to mention Zefrank's eight favorite animal noises...

The Mozilla Project's Percy Cabello popped in to say hi:

In today’s Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) meeting, developers released a preliminary list of requirements for Firefox 3. The new target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year. Among the list of mandatory requirements ... we have:

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In a surprising change, Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu was changing its default interface from GNOME to its netbook-oriented Unity interface