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It’s been a painful two days, hasn’t it? If you’re a Windows user looking for an untethered jailbreak for your iDevice, the answer is most certainly “yes.” The Chronic Dev Team has just let loose the greenpois0n untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1, but unlike the build released 48 hours ago, this one’s meant for Wintel boxes. The team’s site seems to be down at the moment (shocker!), but there’s a download mirror linked below if you just can’t wait to get going. As always, we’d caution you to back up your iPad, iPod touch or iPhone before doing the deed, and since it’s the first of its kind (for this version of iOS, anyway), we’d be ready to see a few bugs along the way. Minor details, we know.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Greenpois0n untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 comes to Windows originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on October 03, 2006 by CyberNet.

It seems like Microsoft is releasing a new build of Windows Vista every week now. I guess that is what you get when they are nearing the final homestretch. Vista RC2 (build 5743) will be the replacement to Vista 5728 that was just opened to the public a few weekends ago. The new release is currently being tested internally and should be available on Friday.

Vista RC2 will be open to the public for downloading but it will be limited just as Vista 5728 was. I’m sure it will be available for a few days but you should still try to make sure you’re one of the first to download it.

Microsoft Will be finalizing Vista sometime between October 25 and November 8 so that it is ready for businesses in November. Another interesting point that Paul Thurrott pointed out was that there are still 1400 known bugs in Vista which definitely sounds like a lot. However, there was nearly 2500 bugs less than 10 days ago! That goes to show that the Microsoft Windows team is working hard to make the release as stable as possible.

News Source: WindowsIT

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Hard to believe that the infamous “fragmentation” term is now being bandied about in the web browser world, but sure enough, it’s Microsoft using the term today to describe the brave new realm we’re living in. If you’ll recall, Google defended its decision to not include H.264 support natively in Chrome, but maintained that WebM plug-ins were coming to Safari and Internet Explorer 9. Today, Microsoft’s kinda-sorta returning the favor. Following the outfit’s release of a Firefox add-on to bring full H.264 support to Windows machines, the outfit is releasing a plug-in for Chrome (only the Windows version for now) that provides support for H.264. Furthermore, it’s committed to supporting third-party WebM video plug-ins; to quote, users “will be able to play WebM video in IE9.” It’s fairly obvious that Microsoft’s taking this golden opportunity to push its browser as one that supports everything (rather than just its own preferred format), but regardless of the motives, we’re just happy to see differences put aside and compatibility finding priority.

Microsoft releases H.264 plug-in for Google Chrome, vows to support WebM video in IE9 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on October 13, 2006 by CyberNet.

The next few months are going to be pretty big for Microsoft because there are going to be new releases of several different applications that they offer. A few days ago we mentioned that IE 7 is scheduled for release on October 18^th and it should be delivered via Automatic Updates after November 1^st. That isn’t the only big release that Microsoft has coming up though.

In a recent press release Microsoft announced that Windows Media Player 11 would be released in the coming weeks. They then go on to say that it will be available on October 24 for users to download. For those of you who haven’t tried out the WMP 11 pre-releases then you will be quite shocked at the differences. Everything is much more streamlined and well organized. It will definitely be a good compliment to Microsoft’s Zune media player that is supposed to be available later this year.

The biggest news (according to ZDNet), however, is that Vista will be released on December 5 to the general public! That’s right, Microsoft is pushing the release date FORWARD almost two months from the originally slated January 30, 2007 scheduled release. Microsoft also plans to make Office 2007 available that same day. The business community will still be receiving Vista in November but Microsoft will surely be recognized for shaving some time off of the public delay.

I think it is great that Microsoft has pushed Vista up but now I am a little concerned for the number of programs that will be Vista-compatible at the launch date. Hopefully Microsoft was able to make most companies aware, especially antivirus developers, of the change before today because they now have two-months less to work on compatibility issues. I have heard most companies repeatedly say that they will have a Vista-compatible version of their software when Microsoft officially releases it to the public but I wonder if that will still be true!

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This article was written on March 11, 2007 by CyberNet.

This past week I spent some time at a local bookstore reading through some books. When I went there I realized that I had not yet seen what kind of Windows Vista books had been made available to get people acquainted with the new operating system. Of course, there were shelves of books available to teach beginners the ropes…but some of them were quite disappointing.

First off, I like checking out these books because from time to time I’ll have people ask what’s a good way to learn how to use an operating system. While many of us can just jump right in and start learning as we go, there are many people who still need to be walked through how to do things. So in those cases I want to point them to a good book.

One book by a publisher called Visual (quite ironicly as you’ll see) was called Microsoft Windows Vista Simplified. There were indeed a lot of pictures, but I noticed something wrong with nearly 90% of the screenshots. To show you some of what I was looking at I went to Amazon who happens to offer the Search Inside feature on this particular book so that I can see random pages. Take a look at one of the images from the book:

Anything catch your attention there? The image might be a little small so you may not have noticed it right away, but the theme being used is the old one (called Scrap Metal) that was only available in early pre-release versions of Vista. It was then replaced with the blue-colored one back in July 2006:

I continued to flip through many other books by the same publisher, Visual, just to find that most of them had used the Scrap Metal theme in their screenshots. However, one book called Maran Illustrated Windows Vista not only had Aero Glass enabled in their screenshots, but their tutorials are laid out a lot better. I noticed that the book also had a bonus chapter available online as a PDF that you can download here. That little bonus edition should give you a great preview with what to expect from the book itself.

I’m in no way getting paid to promote any of the books mentioned in this article (not even any referral links), and it is purely my opinion on which book is better. I looked through several different books while at the bookstore and the Maran one came out on top by a mile…for both content and appearance. Most people I know who are buying a new PC will receive it with Vista and Aero enabled, and that is what I would want them to see in a book. So Maran will be the book I’ll recommend to everyone.

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