Okay, so I’m not much of a poet, granted. March 31st is World Backup Day, one day each year to remind all those who keep putting it off to backup their precious memories and important documents right now. Daves Computer Tips has spent 7 years […]
Facebook Getting Into Virtual Reality After recently purchasing Whatsapp, Facebook bought a virtual reality company, Oculus VR, this week for $2 billion in stock and cash. Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for Oculus include having it provide “completely new kinds of experiences”, of which gaming will obviously be
New Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced that Microsoft Office apps are now available for iPads. Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint are available for free in the App Store. In order to create and edit documents, however, customers will need subscribe to Office 365. Eligible subscriptions
Governments Decide What’s Best for Us! I realize I’ve been giving this topic a bit of a hammering lately but it really stokes my ire. What is it with Governments that makes them think they have the right to decide what’s best for us? If
Rant: Governments & Media Industry Interfering with OUR Internet! Read More »
What Was Your First Tweet? Twitter celebrated the eighth anniversary of the first Twitter message this week by providing a tool to look up your first tweet. If you are on Twitter, you can look up your first tweet (or anyone else’s) with this
Popcorn Time, the free and open source streaming movie project, has gone through so much turmoil in such a short space of time. Popcorn Time was launched just over a week ago to critical acclaim. A few short days later the developers decided to pull
Amazon Prime Price Going Up If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you received an email this week announcing that Amazon is raising the price of its popular service to $99. According to Amazon’s website, the price change is set to occur on April 17th.
This week, Apple released iOS 7.1, the latest version of its mobile operating system. While this is not a major release, it is more than just the usual bug fixes, hence 7.1 instead of 7.0.7. So exactly what is in iOS 7.1? The most significant
A new streaming movie app, appropriately named ‘Popcorn Time’, has been receiving a lot of publicity recently, and with very good reason. Unlike Netflix, Popcorn Time is totally free, available anywhere in the world, and lists new releases in its movie library. Popcorn Time is
Samsung Rolls Out Milk Music Samsung is now offering a free radio-streaming service in the U.S. The service, Milk Music, combines content from Slacker Radio with exclusive music deals from artists. Milk Music joins the somewhat crowded music streaming field along with Pandora, Spotify
Apple Ends Snow Leopard Support When Apple released its latest updates to OS X operating systems, it failed to release a version for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.x). This is not surprising since Apple tends to support the last three versions of OS X. This
A serious security flaw was addressed in the most recent iOS and OS X updates. The issue was related to the inability to validate the authenticity of an SSL connection. While true of any network connectivity, the greatest danger was while using public wi-fi
In a scenario reminiscent of Steve Jobs’ triumphant to return to Apple in 1997, new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has offered founder and top geek Bill Gates one of the industry’s top jobs, Teck Korner can reveal today. This exclusive and much sought after position
NASA Solves “Doughnut Rock” Mystery The appearance of a ‘doughnut rock’, named Pinnacle Island, on Mars a few weeks ago caused quite a stir. NASA’s Mars rover, Opportunity, sent photos of the rock which was not there when it had passed that same spot
