Do you have an old iPad 2, 3, or 4 that you want to get rid of? Microsoft said earlier this week it is willing to take them off your hands for a minimum of a $200 gift card at the MS store. The promotion is running to increase Microsoft Surface tablet sales, but thankfully when you trade in your iPad you won’t be limited to purchasing only a surface since the gift card they give you will work on anything in the MS store, even online....
I then proceeded to the RIM 850 (the DataTac version of the Mobitex-based RIM 950), then the 857, and then to the first real RIM Smartphone, the RIM 5810/5820. I’ve had BlackBerrys attached to my hip since 1999 and for a very long time, lived and breathed the BlackBerry mantra. It was the king of the space; in fact I think it led to the trend of actually using mobile data....
Fortunately, with Excel 2013, there’s no need to fuss around in the View ribbon. Simply open two Excel spreadsheets and snap them to either side of the screen. Easy! The View ribbon is still available, as is the View Side by Side option. To use it, open two spreadsheets, then click View –> View Side by Side. By default, this will arrange your windows horizontally. You may want to collapse the ribbon (CTRL + F1) to get a little bit more viewing space....
What Is It? We keep seeing these puzzle games showing up as the free app of the week. Like Dropflip and Linia, your goal here is to figure out the pattern. Along the way, you’ll need to avoid some obstacles. The game has a cute backstory about futuristic life forms and helping them. The graphics are gorgeous, and the sound is addicting. Beyond those features, it’s boring as all get out....
The Novation UltraNova has three oscillators, two ring modulators and a noise generator. The oscillators each have 14 analog waveforms, 20 digital waveforms and 36 wavetables with nine waveforms each. Oscillators can quickly be fattened with the Density control. Density stacks multiple copies of the same oscillator without sacrificing polyphony. Those can be further detuned to add more thickness to the sound. This is ideal for creating the popular supersaw-type waveforms while only using a single oscillator....
It sounds stupid because, yeah it is. This incredible breach of the rules started when several members of the team began wearing a special UK edition of Beats by Dr. Dre headphones (pictured above), gifted to them by the company in an ambush marketing campaign. Some of the Olympic team members decided to Tweet their love of the products, including football goal-keeper Jack Butland. Others wore them before competing. Well, Olympic officials didn’t react too well to the impromptu campaign and promptly told the athletes to stop wearing them and start wearing Panasonic headphones....
This week, the editors over at Apple chose the PAC-MAN Friends app as the Free app of the week for the iPhone, iPod and iPad. The free app has tilt control, retina support and 95 levels of play. Despite being the free app of the week, dozens of reviews I browsed through complain of in-app purchases as well as ads in between levels. Sounded a bit sketch to me so I skipped on downloading it for my devices....
There are a couple of different ways you can do it, including using the pinning wizard. It lets you pin multiple suggested websites to the taskbar. Here’s a look at how to use it or pin individual sites. Use the Taskbar Pinning Wizard in Edge To get started, launch Microsoft Edge. Then click the Options button (three dots) in the upper-right corner of the toolbar. From the menu, choose the More tools > Launch Taskbar pinning wizard option....
To play, go to cuttherope.ie in Internet Explorer 9. Just use your mouse to cut the ropes in each level. With IE 9 in Windows 7, you can pin the game to the Taskbar. You can play it in any modern web browser – Firefox 9 or the latest version of Google Chrome. But it’s designed to play best in IE 9 on Windows 7 through its hardware acceleration feature....
Back Up your Apple iOS Device Before Installing the New Apple File System We previously covered how to back up your iOS device, so be sure to check our guide for details. So, what’s the big deal about APFS? Well, the last time Apple released a file system for use on a system drive was in 1998. That was HFS+, which was an incremental upgrade to the Hierarchal File System (HFS) introduced in 1985....
Personally, I figured around $10.00 was a fair price however my guess is only die-hard fans will pay something using this new “Honor System.” Who knows? I’d be curious to see how much they make off this? Anyway, after the online payment, a link was provided, and I downloaded the CD in just a few minutes: The Music? VERY Groovy! Great tunes, unique and should please both old and new Radiohead fans....
Having the ability to remotely access your Windows PC is a convenient way to access files and programs. It’s also a good way to troubleshoot and remotely support a workstation – provided the network isn’t the issue. Being able to do it from a tablet or smartphone is even better. When Windows 8 and Surface with Windows RT came out, there was already a nice Modern style app for Remote Desktop....
7:11 PM: Samsung exec is bringing up Android chief Andy Rubin. To help announce the Android 4.0 next generation Nexus phone — “we want people to put their (phone) back in their pocket, feeling satisfied. So it’s like your cell phone is acting on your behalf because of cloud services.” 7:13 Rubin: Rolling a video. 7:14 “everyone, we are proud to announce the Galaxy Nexus.” It is a Super AMOLED display phone....
The first Samsung Galaxy Note has been quite successful – over 5 million units had been sold since late spring, contradicting those saying that it was difficult to operate with one hand. It has solid specs and a large battery, as well as a huge 5.3 inch size screen with 1280 x 800 resolution. Samsung is planning to release the second Galaxy Note in an event taking place on August 29 in Berlin, Germany, according to Reuters quoting a Samsung spokesperson....
Start by connecting Yahoo Mail and your Dropbox account. Create a new account if you need one, or sign in if you already have an account. If you have 2-Step Verification enabled for your Dropbox account – which we highly recommend – you’ll need to enter in the extra security code sent to your phone. After you’ve connected your Yahoo Mail with Dropbox, sending files from Dropbox is easy. Compose a new message, and click the attachment dropdown in the message body, and select Share from Dropbox....
Stream Your Locally Stored Music and Video The device isn’t intended to be used as a WiFi receiver for sending content to your TV like a Roku or Xbox 360. But it does work, just follow my guide on how to stream your own media files to Chromecast. Send Websites to Chromecast In fact you can stream a webpage to your TV with the Google Cast extension. Just navigate to the page you want to show on your big screen and click Cast this Tab....
Foscam FI9821P WiFi Camera I bought this in Nov. 2012 for $69.00 from Groupon. I think it was my wife’s idea. She had read a blog post about turning one of these into a video baby monitor, and that’s what we did. We ended up using it a ton. In fact, when we had another kid, we bought another one of these for $64.99 off Newegg. The first kid is too big to need a baby monitor anymore, so we moved his camera into a playroom in the basement....
This is intended to help minimize the amount of bandwidth that’s consumed for updates and save time. For example, instead of each PC downloading updates individually from Microsoft, it gets pieces of the updates from other PCs that have already downloaded them. Here is how Microsoft explains the feature: Now, while this makes sense on a local network, you might not like the idea of using your bandwidth to help random PCs on the Internet....
First, for best results, make sure you have the latest version of iTunes (at the time of this writing is 10.5.3). Also, make sure you have the latest version of iOS 5 running on your iDevice. You’ll also need to have your computer and device on the same network. Now, plug your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into your Mac or PC. Here I’m using iTunes for Windows. Click your iDevices name under Devices in the the left panel....
SCOM 2007 is a huge release for SCOM (formerly known as MOM – Microsoft Operations Manager) with many new features and upgrades, including improved performance, support for NON-Windows Servers such as Linux and Unix, integration with their new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 line, and a whole bunch of other stuff… Ok, gotta grab a copy and start playing. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post....
