This illustration made by Galit Weisberg (aka Shoze) for a contest on Sketchoholic is just awesome. via My Modern Metropolis/reddit

We are still quite a ways out from having any “official” Windows 8 themes or wallpapers but that hasn’t stopped some of the more dedicated folks out there from coming up with their own goodies. Thanks to the folks at Windows8Beta.com we have an unofficial Windows 8 theme for those of you using Google’s Chrome browser. You can grab your copy to install at the Chrome Web Store.

It seems that the Comcast gods have smiled down on Paul today and we are actually able to record today’s show, unlike yesterday. Needless to say Paul has a few words to say about being a business subscriber to Comcast along with some head-banging reactions to a couple of today’s stories. So all in all it was another great show for you to enjoy. [Audio clip: view full post to…

News about Microsoft, and especially Internet Explorer, seems to follow a pattern. We get one good report only to be followed by a negative one. Case in point: this morning I wrote about the nice numbers Internet Explorer 9 was experiencing when it came to downloads but now we get a report, via Network World, that Microsoft’s browser is losing influence all because of the rise of web applications. According…

Anyone who has been involved in the technology field, especially web technologies, will remember the horror of Internet Explorer 5; and Microsoft considering itself the arbiter of what web standards should be. It is only today that we are really seeing any serious decline in the use of IE6 but some would say that the price we have paid during those intervening years was too high. Much credit has to go…

The Xbox Kinect camera-interface has been the center of a lot of amusing controversy lately and it’s also been the center of a groundswell of amazing innovations. The newest invention to leap out of this little-developed device produced by Microsoft has been a gesture-based navigation extension for the open source Chrome browser. ReadWriteWeb brings us the scoop, Called DepthJS, the software is on GitHub and open for collaboration… Some of the gestures appear more…