Along with the ZBook 14 – the world’s first workstation Ultrabook – the ZBook family has arrived with the ZBook 15 and the ZBook 17. The larger two devices work with much of the same technology as the smaller, but each brings on its own unique blend of high-powered features that makes the price jump […]
When Microsoft delivered Windows 8.1 to manufacturers, some developers were more annoyed than overjoyed — unlike in years past, they weren’t getting advance copies to help optimize their apps. The company has heard their complaints, however, and it’s now offering the Release To Manufacturing builds of Windows 8.1, 8.1 Professional and Windows Server 2012 R2 to both MSDN and TechNet members. The enterprise edition of Windows 8.1 will be available later in September, Microsoft says. Regular users will still have to wait until the mid-October launch to get their turn, but the early developer release should lead to a healthier stock of Windows 8.1-ready apps in the weeks ahead.
Update: In case you’d forgotten, 8.1 also arrives with a “fully built-in Skype app.” The Skype blog details new features like the ability to answer calls from the lock screen, a window that automatically adjusts when you open up links and click to call from Internet Explorer.
Filed under: Software, Microsoft
Via: Blogging Windows
Source: MSDN Blogs, Skype Blog
This article was written on May 10, 2007 by CyberNet.
According to Discovery.com Microsoft is working on a new technology in India that could let users share their computer monitor with another user using a software-based solution. That’s right, it would be like playing a split-screen video game where each user has their own space to work with.
When I first read about this my thought was how could two people share a 15–inch or 17–inch monitor? The sideways scrolling on websites and documents would probably start to get tedious:
Each side of the screen has its own mouse and keyboard hooked up to control what is essentially their own operating system. Users would then share the same computer hardware (processor, video card, memory, hard drive, etc…) which would therefore reduce costs and power consumption.
It still sounded pretty stupid to me until I thought about the possibility of hooking multiple monitors up to the system! That would mean one computer can be shared between two users, but they would hardly notice that they were using the same computer. Each user would have their own keyboard, mouse, and monitor but everything else would be shared. Of course that’s assuming the computer has a graphics card with two monitor outputs.
That would be more cost effective for both businesses and homes. With how powerful computers have become it is not unreasonable to think that most households could then have one central PC that has a keyboard, mouse, and monitor running into different rooms as if they were different computers. Both parents and kids could have their own computer, and if Microsoft chooses to they could probably setup some advanced parental controls so that parents can see what their kids are doing at all times. That type of system should be more than adequate for families assuming that no one plays graphics-intensive games on the PC.
Unfortunately the split-screen technology is still a few years away, and I’m hoping that Microsoft will look into all the benefits that such a system could bring to families in addition to businesses.
Source: Discover.com [via Gizmodo]
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Microsoft will reveal its new Surface tablets at an event in New York City on September 23, according to invitations sent to press, with the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 expected to debut. The “save the date” invite is believed to be for Microsoft to reveal the Intel “Haswell” update to the Surface […]
There’s an old joke about a doctor giving an elderly patient some good news and bad news. "Give me the bad news first," the old guy says. "OK, you’ve got cancer and you’re dying. Best case, you have a few years left." "Oh god, that’s awful," cries the old man. "What’s the good news?" "Well," says the doctor, "You’re in the best shape of your life, and your dementia means you won’t remember any of this in a few hours." And that is, essentially, the Windows laptop renaissance.
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Microsoft has reportedly shuffled some of its high-level managers and executives within the Windows unit. The reorganization comes as Microsoft works to push its phone, PC, and Xbox closer together. Some the changes are significant with faces familiar to those who follow Microsoft closely no longer in familiar positions. Microsoft is expected to publish a […]
This article was written on July 10, 2012 by CyberNet.
I’ve always thought that free tools like Paint.NET are incredible pieces of software because they drastically simplify the image editing process for most users while still offering a lot of the advanced options for the power users out there. The downside to Paint.NET is that it’s only available on Windows, but a free app called Pinta tries to bring a similar set of features to all platforms.
Pinta takes many cues from Paint.NET, and that’s a good thing in my book. Since the app is cross-platform you can easily edit your images on Windows, Linux and Mac which can help make moving between operating systems an easier transition when you consider the interface will be the same on them all.
There’s not much else to say about the tool because it does what you’d want an image editor to do. Here is an overview of some of the features highlighted on the project’s page:
One thing I do want to note is to take a look at the prerequisites on the download page. For example, Windows users will need to install .NET 4 and GTK before Pinta will work.
Pinta Homepage (Windows/Mac/Linux; Freeware)
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The Nokia Lumia 1020 — Nokia’s 41-megapixel cameraphone for the photographically-inclined among us — was given a price cut at certain online retailers this past week, bringing the cost of the handset down to the average rate found on many handsets with two-year contracts. Following this, both AT&T and Microsoft have both announced price slashing […]
Want the latest software updates for your phone? You can just wait like a pleb, or you can go buy handsets on Craigslist and hope to get lucky. Apparently Windows Phone Central user xs2k did the latter when he just happened to buy a phone with the latest, unreleased Windows Phone 8 OS on it.
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Leap Motion, Kinect or MYO could satisfy your yearning for motion control, but an itch for eye-tracking tech might be harder to scratch. There aren’t a lot of them on the market yet, which Eye Tribe hopes to change now that it’s opened pre-orders for the developer edition of its Windows peripheral. Similar to the Tobii REX, the Eye Tribe Tracker is a thin bar that plugs into a PC or a tablet via USB and follows your line of sight, except its $99 price is a bit more palatable. Since the firm’s hoping developers will integrate eye control to existing games and software for the benefit of future buyers, the first version of the device will come with an SDK. Eye Tribe’s yet to lay out plans for the Android version showcased in April — the video after the cut also hints at iOS and OS X integration — but it has promised to ship the Windows eye tracker before the year ends.
Filed under: Peripherals
Source: Eye Tribe
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