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A look at the Firefox 3.0 final installation process

Father’s Day is coming up, and for sons everywhere, that means a little indulgence in Dad’s favorite activities. Here at ZDNet, that means gadgets, so here are five items Dad needs in his gizmo toybox.

Bad hardware is subtle in its evil: Annoyances that seem trivial at first can build over time like a pebble in your shoe into an eternal shaft of dismal misery.

Introducing the iPhone 3G

It’s Apple time again with Steve Jobs once again unveiling new products in front of a record crowd.

I took 45 screenshots of the HTC Touch Diamond that include most all of the features that are new on this Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device. You can see the TouchFLO 3D, new applications, and settings in these screenshots. Check out my videos to see more of the device in action too.

The Apple Mac Classic is one of the most famous and easily recognizable personal computers ever manufactured. First introduced in 1990, the Mac Classic was Apple’s low-end under $1,000 computer, which made it very popular with the education market. In the next few weeks, we’ll be Cracking Open this classic computer to examine what makes it tick.

This morning I came across an article on Neosmart claiming that Firefox 3.0 is, despite the best attempts of the Mozilla dev team, still a massive memory hog.

The Nokia N82 continues to extend the line of Nseries devices with another innovation, the Xenon flash. The N82 has all the latest wireless connectivity options, with the exception of the North American 3G networks. The 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics takes very good photos and 30 fps video. The N82 is available now in the U.S. from the Nokia site as an unlocked device for US$564.

At Computex, manufacturers preparing the public for the first UMPCs based on new chips from Intel, Nvidia, and Via.

NVIDIA, responding to user demands for a better visual experience when using notebook PCs, announces the GeForce 9M Series of graphics processors, and a new graphics innovation, Hybrid SLI technology.

USB hard disk adapters are among the most useful tools a computer technician can pack in a toolkit. Just what’s inside one of these powerful adapters, which enable you to quickly connect IDE and SATA disks (2.5-, 3.5- and 5.25-inch) to other workstations? Erik Eckel opens a Coolmax model to find out.

Ilium Software’s eWallet software is designed to let you securely carry all of your vital data (social security numbers, bank account logins/passwords, and more) with you on your mobile phone or PDA. eWallet 6 offer 2560bit AES FIPS encryption so your data is secure.

Adobe launches its online office challenge with a beta versions of word processing, online meeting, file sharing, and PDF creating tools.

A travel log of Blade’s Edge Mountains in the World of Warcraft presented by Technologia, the official unofficial guild of TechRepublic.

As of grading time, nearly 500 people had taken our solid-state drives quiz. Find out how they did, and if you would have done better.

Earlier today I downloaded the latest Live CD for Ophcrack, the Windows password cracker, and tried it out on a Vista install to see how good of a password buster it is.

Conclusion: Either choose strong passwords, or don’t bother with a password at all.

This will be my first in a series (an “X = X +1” sort of series) where I’ll be looking at virtualization. However, rather than look at the kind of virtualization where you inxstall and OS like Windows, Mac OS or Linux and then install an application that allows you to create virtual machines, I’m going to be looking at virtualization at a much lower level using VMware’s ESX 3.5 and Infrastructure applications. I’m going to start off by looking at VMware ESX and taking you through the install process.