Not being
a Harry Potter fan, I really don’t care that I can now get those books for free
with my Amazon Prime membership. But some of you just might be interested. I
was actually more interested in the two stories about tablets…what to expect
from the three big names in tablets in the next few months…and the story the
Microsoft will ban Firefox from its ARM-based tablets running Windows 8.
Now that
is just dumb! I guess that means you will be forced to use IE when using a Windows
8 tablet. To me that is just another nail in the coffin of Windows 8 computers.
Why would I upgrade to an operating system that gives me less than what I have
now? As I said in the last edition, Microsoft seems to have lost its way. Of
course, time will tell if I am right or wrong…but whatever happens, I am
sticking with my Windows 7 computer and my Apple iPad tablet.
Of course,
there is more to this edition than those two stories, so let’s get to it. - JRC
Raising the specter of last-generation browser battles, Mozilla launches
a publicity campaign to seek a place for browsers besides IE on Windows devices
using ARM chips.
Do you have
an Amazon Prime account? Then you have all seven books of the Harry Potter
adolescent warfare odyssey. Amazon just told us the entire series will be made
free as part of its Kindle Lending Library.
Over the
next few weeks, Microsoft will roll out a brand new three-column version of
Bing that incorporates a social sidebar filled with related info from your
social networks and a new center column with supplemental information related
to your search.
Just about
every tablet maker, including Apple, is rumored (or expected) to announce (or
launch) a new tablet version within roughly the next four months. The devices
are likely to be smaller in the case of Apple and bigger in the case of Amazon.
Facebook on Wednesday announced it will be launching a new App Center in
the coming weeks on the Web, iOS and Android. The company hopes the center will
give developers a way to more effectively distribute apps and create new
opportunities for more types of apps to be successful.
It's time
to forget megapixels as the measure of smartphone camera performance and pick a
new yardstick.
In this
week’s webinar, you’ll learn about nifty keyboard shortcuts in Excel,
PowerPoint, and Word. There’s a lot more than Ctrl+X for Cut and Ctrl+V for
Paste. A 16 minute video
Windows has
a long and honorable history of including advanced tools and options that help
unlock the operating system’s full potential. In this first installment of a
series of articles on these tools, you’ll see how a few easy tweaks can give
you two-click access to hundreds of Windows’ most powerful features.
There's a
tool for just about anything you can think of in Windows. And if you look hard
enough, you'll find a freebie is more than capable of doing the job you want –
in some cases, free tools outclass their shareware or commercial rivals.
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