Windows 8 may come in in fewer flavors than its predecessors but it seems pricing policy is set to be as confusing as ever, if not more so. One thing appears certain; anyone wishing to purchase the new operating system, whether it be via upgrade, […]
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There are certain types of software that fall easily into the ‘essential’ category, those products which we just cannot do without. PDF readers (or viewers) fall squarely into this domain. PDF (Portable Document Format) has become the standard utilized in a myriad online distribution models;
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As per Apple’s standard practice of releasing an iOS update a few days prior to the latest and greatest device being available, iOS 6 was released today (September 19th). I decided to upgrade my 3rd generation iPad to iOS 6 this evening. Generally, I
I never quite got around to updating my Mac OS from Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), which was released on July 25th. I’m am usually fairly timely on upgrades, performing them in the first week or so. Somehow Mountain
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In 1976, NASA unveiled the first Space Shuttle, the Enterprise. The shuttle was originally called Constitution. A write-in campaign by “Star Trek” enthusiasts urged President Gerald Ford to go with Enterprise and, as a result, the name was changed. The Enterprise was a test vehicle
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Today, Apple held its much anticipated iPhone media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to introduce its iPhone 5. Rumors have been running rampant for months, maybe ever since the iPhone 4S was announced, about what features the new iPhone
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Yesterday, I joined the ranks of smartphone users who have had to recover from a “hard reset”. My HTC EVO 3D had in issue where the 4G antenna would turn on, and then right before it obtained an IP address from the network, would shut
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Ok, you’ve made a leap of faith. You’ve bought a new PC or upgraded to Windows 8. Now what? How do you accomplish the tasks you used to do in a previous operating system? Where is the desktop? Where is the Start Menu? What the
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On August 15th, Windows 8 was made available to both TechNet and MSDN members and as I said in a previous article, “I, for one, look forward to new Operating Systems like a child looks forward to an amusement park visit, but I approach Windows
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It appears that Mozilla’s leak-management project, code-named ‘MemShrink’, might finally have achieved the results all dedicated Firefox users have been waiting for. Mozilla is confident that the new Firefox 15 for PCs will put an end to the multitude of memory-management issues which have plagued
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