Screen sharing is still free with Skype, but you’d not know it from Microsoft’s weasel words. One of the best features in Skype is screen sharing – the ability to send some or your entire computer screen to your caller, instead of video from a webcam. This feature is still free in the latest version […]
Watch a hard drive at work, in slow motion and soaking wet. Here’s a clever video, showing the innards of a hard drive at work in slow motion. Hard drives work at very fast speeds as you’ll see. Also worth mentioning that the hard drive arm is passing over the high-speed platters with about 3 nanometers […]
Amazon Kindle’s get a software update to support a new file format and other goodies. A few weeks ago we talked about a new file format for Amazon Kindle devices- KF8 . Now the software has arrived to support the new formats on the devices. Go to Amazon and click on the image matching your […]
How some tablet, phone and reader screens look under the microscope. For some people it’s not enough to just use a new device, they have to check out the details. Lukas Mathis grabbed his USB microscope to check out the details of his new iPad compared to the older iPad 2. A good idea since […]
Reading the coverage of Windows 8 Consumer Preview is like deja vu all over again. Reading all the coverage of Windows 8 Consumer Preview is like deja vu all over again … the same headlines with a new date stamp: “New Windows 8 experience is confusing, confusing as hell.” “Fantastic breakthrough from Microsoft” “Windows 8 […]
