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Using just a small fraction of Google’s vast application offerings? That’s about to end!

Firefox 3.6 has recorded over 100 million downloads during the past 50 days, according to a new post  by Melissa Shapiro on Mozilla’s official blog. Now, Mozilla wants Firefox loyalists still holding onto older versions of the browser to make the leap to the latest version. To this end, people running older versions will begin seeing a pop-up message to inform them about the latest version and urge them to update.

Why Wipe Data Securely?

Whether you are preparing to reuse a hard disk for another operating system, clear off your junk shelves by passing along outdated drives to a friend or relative, donate an old PC to a charity or school, discard a too-small USB drive or flash memory card, or repurpose an SSD, you don’t want to leave any information on the storage device. With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door.

Be still, our beating hearts. No seriously, be still. We’re sure that headline’s got your head swimming with dreams made real and wishes fulfilled, but we’re going to send all of that crashing down around you with one phrase: browser-based MMO. Heart sinking yet? No? Ok, try this one on for size: a list of the games developer Bigpoint Games has headed-up. Recognize any of them? Yeah, us neither. Which is not to say we’re writing this one off completely – quite the contrary, in fact. But neither are we getting our hopes up too high. For now, though, Bigpoint’s description of the game is certainly speaking our (extremely geeky) language.

Listening to the Maximum PC podcast #131 this past week (I’m behind) brought back some fond memories.  Not only was there a little glint in my eye because I was actually mentioned on said podcast, but I was also tearing up a bit at the realization that the very art of podcasting could serve as an excellent Freeware Files roundup.