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Boutique browser Vivaldi now offers own Internet suite Boutique browser Vivaldi now offers own Internet suite Vivaldi 4.0, which includes an email client, calendar, and RSS reader, reflects a strategy reminiscent of Netscape Navigator. What goes around comes around. In fact, the 1990s called and want their browser suite back. Vivaldi, one of the boutique browsers that fight for scraps left on the floor by Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge, has turned to a strategy reminiscent of Netscape Navigator, the world's first dominant web browser. Vivaldi 4.0, which launched earlier this m...

"Ric was one of the pivotal people of our generation both in the information age and in the gay rights movement. He was right at the center; he was one of the architects. We wouldn't live in the world that we live in today without the contribution that Ric made." While this quote from Michael Failla, a friend of Ric Weiland, sounds like affectionate hyperbole, it comes fairly close to truth, as we hear in the new documentary Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story, which will premiere at the Provincetown Film Festival (June 16-25). Who is Ric Weiland, you may ask? He warrants much greater name rec...

"Ric was one of the pivotal people of our generation both in the information age and in the gay rights movement. He was right at the center; he was one of the architects. We wouldn't live in the world that we live in today without the contribution that Ric made." While this quote from Michael Failla, a friend of Ric Weiland, sounds like affectionate hyperbole, it comes fairly close to truth, as we hear in the new documentary Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story, which will premiere at the Provincetown Film Festival (June 16-25). Who is Ric Weiland, you may ask? He warrants much greater name rec...

April 10, 2021 5 Minutes Last week I took a dive into the office life of yesteryear with Microsoft Works 3.0 for DOS. Now I’m exploring some more retro business software, this time delving into the ancient database management system known as Borland dBase. dBase was THE first commercially successful DBMS for microcomputers, and in fact it is still active today, which would give it one of the longest lifespans of any major application software. It began its life in 1978 as a software package for PTDOS and CP/M dubbed Vulcan. It was later bought by Ashton-Tate, renamed dBase, and por...