Over on Hardware 2.0 I've got a couple of polls: Will Apple approve Opera Mini for the iPhone? Would you like to see Opera Mini on the iPhone? Have your say! Tweet

Yesterday Norton Internet Security/AntiVirus started noticing a file called PIFTS.EXE running on their system. Within moments customers started posting questions about this file on Norton's community forum. Then, mysteriously, admins on the forum started to delete those messages (fortunately Google has a long memory). Within moments a storm of conspiracy theories whipped up. So, what [...]

While security experts are urging Internet Explorer users to find a safer browser, Microsoft is recommending users stick with IE: "I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw," said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's Windows group. Sorry Microsoft, but this sounds like daft advice to me. It's easy enough for people to [...]

I've just finished reading an article on Computerworld called "12 unnecessary Vista features you can disable right now" which claims that you can "reclaim your PC's performance by turning off a dozen wasteful features." Sorry folks, but more than 90% of this article is bunk. Let me just run through the "tips" contained in the [...]

The other day ATI released Catalyst 8.8 drivers for its range of GPUs. These might work for you but I had to roll my system back to the earlier version to get it stable again. I usually download and install the latest ATI drivers as soon as they are released, and normally I never look [...]