If you haven’t heard WebP is a new image file format designed for the web and developed by Google. It is also an open-source royalty-free compression technology that derivates from the video format VP8 that will help to make the web better and faster in desktop computers, but mobile devices are the ones that will [...]
If you still running Windows 7, Vista or Windows XP, Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel is the tool you need to mount disk image files. Virtual CD-ROM is a tool just released by Microsoft and is very useful to get inside of disk image files (.udf, .cdfs, .jo, .iso, or .rock) to recover a file and [...]
Remember BitTorrent? The controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application. Well, things have dramatically changed since those days, and the company is developing new interesting products today. BitTorrent Labs, just released “BitTorrent Sync”, a free application that continues using P2P technology and it can well be your next favorite “remote backup”/”private cloud” solution, you’ve been waiting for. BitTorrent Sync [...]
Stardock ModernMix changes the way we interact with Windows 8 apps by bringing them to the Desktop in the traditional windowed environment. As you may already have experienced the new Windows 8 apps (also often referred to as “Modern apps”, “Windows Store Apps” or “Metro style apps”) only run full-screen or snapped on either side of the [...]
It’s been a few weeks since the release of Office 2013 and the response is somewhat mixed because Microsoft is trying something new, that is, a subscription-based model with Office 365 to get access to one of the most popular office suite of applications in the world, instead of continue licensing the software with the same [...]
Microsoft has been working for a while getting ready Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7, and for millions of users today the wait is over. IE10 for Windows 7 ditches the “Release Preview” label and becomes available for everyone to download in 95 languages, bringing better JavaScript performance and improved battery life on portable devices. [...]
Since Microsoft revealed back in 2012 that Aero Glass would not be part of Windows 8, many enthusiasts took upon themselves to come up with clever solutions for the now gone feature that was introduced in Vista and it lasted until Windows 7. This is the case of Aero Glass for Win8, which is a new [...]
For users wanting to enjoy Android OS and apps on Windows, options were limited. The only good stable alternative until recently was Bluestack, but that is about to change with WindowsAndroid. The guys at Socketeq successfully made it possible to natively run Google’s mobile OS into the Windows kernel. This means that now Android can run inside of [...]
Use the skills you already know about building websites and start coding amazing Windows 8 apps. Everything you need is in this Microsoft’s free eBook offer titled “Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript” by Kraig Brockschmidt, member of the Windows Ecosystem team. This free book is over 800 pages long with 17 chapters [...]
StartW8 for Windows 8: Since Microsoft decided to remove for good the Start menu from its operating system, users have looked for ways to re-enable this iconic menu, but because there isn’t a way within Windows 8 to bring it back, many developers took upon themselves to create alternative replacements; now we have an array of Start menus [...]