Desktop Applications

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches a Mac OS X Trojan construct a botnet for distributed denial of service attacks and sending spam. Not to mention Drop7...

The release candidate of Ubuntu Linux's latest version, Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 9.04 is almost out and it's looking like a good one. Here are the five best things you'll have to look forward to in this release.

In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Microsoft reveal Office, Exchange, and SharePoint 2010: not waving, but drowning? Not to mention Error'd...

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches worries about Windows 7 deployment plans—but is everything quite as it seems? Not to mention a second-hand Elite gag...

After working with the latest versions of all three of the major browsers the winner is still Firefox. Here's why.

According to Major League Baseball, you can only watch MLB.com's baseball games on Windows or a Mac. Wrong. You can now watch your favorite team -- go Cubs! -- on most Linux desktops as well.

A new Google Gadget adds business intelligence to the popular online messaging and collaboration tools.

Adobe explains why you have first update the Adobe Reader to version 8.1.3 before you can update it to version 8.1.4.

What's the latest version of the Adobe Reader for Windows users? Should be a simple question, but it's not. If you're not careful, you can end up with a buggy version of the software even after updating it.

Worried about Conficker? You don't have to be. There's a software patch that will get rid of all your Conficker worries once and for all! Better still, it will also rid you of 99.9999% of all your malware concerns once and for all. Its name is Linux.

In Monday's IT Blogwatch, GhostNet researchers unravel spyware from China; some do, and some do not, blame the Chinese government. Not to mention Bet Smart ...

Windows users essentially pay a Microsoft tax for every PC they buy --- the cost of extra security software they need to buy every year, plus the time it takes to rid their PCs of "crapware" and other software junk. But there's no need to pay that tax --- I've got advice on the best free security software and de-crapifying software so you won't have to pay a dime or waste a minute.

With its latest Linux release Novell, Novell has made Linux about as close to Windows as it can get. Whether that's a good thing or not, depends on where you're coming from.

Windows will be key to cloud computing - and the clients that connect to it, says Microsoft's Craig Mundie.

This isn't just any update to Linux's GNOME interface. This is a great update to GNOME. Here's why.