Seems Windows in its 8th iteration will raise from the dead in terms of boot time. If you believe – are you a believer?- the below video, you should jump to the roof with the new up to 70% boot speed gain. Sounds cool as Windows 8 comes in two flavors (light tiles layer for [...]
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Windows 8 = Your PC Under Windows Phone 7!
Windows 8 is the perfect copycat of the Windows Phone 7 Interface. The shell (HTML5 based) becomes an extra layer of the OS and is supposed to make things easier when it comes to media browsing on a vertical touchscreen. Microsoft claims this 8th iteration won’t need any extra hardware resources. If your machine runs [...]
Google Chrome Books Ready To Rock’n’Roll?
Samsung Chrome Book in white, due this June 2011. Google announced the launch of the Chrome Books build to support and spread the Chrome OS software and cloud usage. 100% classic hardware. The notebooks have no special killer specs, 11/12” inch screens, 1.3/1.4 kg for 6/8 hours battery life, +/- $400. Nothing to stare at. [...]
Goggle WebP to Shrink Images !
As you know Google is at war when it comes to Internet speed. They now release a beta of a new high compression image standard called WebP. This one is supposed to deliver an average 30% extra compression to lossy formats like jpg, even more on gif or png lossless formats. Right now, no browser [...]
iTunes 10 Logo : What Apple Missed ?
As you know, Apple revealed the brand new iTunes 10 Logo yesterday. A good thing is they removed the CD icon from it as of course it dosen’t make any sense to keep it. But I guess Steve missed a chance to do it even better. For example why still name it iTUNES (and thus [...]
Photoshop Turns 20 !
Sounds incredible but Adobe Photoshop is just turned 20 ! A real grown up now ! :-)
Charles Dickens Manuscript !
Imagine what the world was before word processors. Here a sample of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” manuscript, 1843.
iPhone App to Cover Farts !
Sometimes you want to be discreet !
More about Google Chrome OS !
Google announced today a few things about it’s forthcoming open source OS : Chrome OS. Chrome OS is Linux based (Debian) and ment to be above all the instant on OS. 7 seconds boot time, which meaning that you’ll never have to wait again for ages until the OS allows you to use your PC. [...]