PDFs or Portable Document Format files are steadily gaining popularity among business and home users since format’s debut in 1993. Considering they are lightweight and can be displayed on almost any operating system and browser, PDFs became top choice for electronic document archives. The concept of “paperless office” relies heavily on PDF. Increased productivity and better workflows when dealing with a lot of documents has […]
Since the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has taking cue from most popular desktop and mobile operating systems such as Mac OS X, iOS and Android to requires signing into a cloud service account to take full advantage of the features. Likewise in Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and future versions of Windows OS, users is prominently asked to sign into their Microsoft account to easily […]
In CentOS or RedHat Linux operating system, upgrading to latest version of kernel is important to ensure that all security vulnerabilities or loopholes are patches and new features are applied. In addition, as Linux specially CentOS is one of the most popular Linux flavor that hosts the cPanel web hosting control panel, the leading control panel which manages the websites in the web hosting industry, […]
Popcorn Time is a multi-platform, free and open source BitTorrent media app that downloads or streams and plays movies and TV series. Popcorn Time has been widely popular as it’s free yet provides the ease-of-use and functionality of paid subscription-based video streaming service such as Netflix.
Android users have been able to enjoy free flow of movies and TV shows streaming service through special BitTorrent client apps that uses sequential downloading in order to stream media called Show Box and Popcorn Time. For iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users, an alternative is available, which is Movie Box. The catch is that officially to install Movie Box on iOS device, you need […]
The ISO images for Windows 10 Technical Preview has gone live for free public download via Windows Insider Program as scheduled at 9am PST on October 1st, 2014. Windows 10 was announced by Microsoft in an event in San Francisco a day before.
Microsoft OneDrive (previously known as Windows Live SkyDrive) has been offering free 15GB storage space since June 2014, an increase from free 7GB disk space offered when the service was first launched. However, if the default free storage available is not enough for you, Microsoft is offering you a chance to double the OneDrive free storage to 30GB, without cost.
Microsoft has launched Windows Insider Program to allow PC experts and IT Pros to gain access to a technical preview of Windows 10 (previously known as Windows 9) for desktops and laptops, with technical previews of Windows Server and our management tools coming soon after. The Windows Insider Program is expected to go live on October 1st, 2014, where Windows enthusiasts will get to download […]
So, the real name for the “Windows 9”, codenamed Windows Threshold, has been revealed by Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Operating Systems, to be called Windows 10 officially in a Windows 10 event held in San Francisco on September 30th, 2014.
In Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft Outlook 2013 or older Outlook versions, the Inbox displays the count of unread email messages, but the count may be wrong or incorrect. For example, Outlook may indicate that there is a count of 1 unread email message, but in fact there is none in the Inbox; or there is a 3 count of unread emails when actually there is […]
Microsoft hasn’t officially talked about upcoming major version of Windows operating system, codenamed Windows Threshold but widely expected to be named as Windows 9, yet. Not only that, Microsoft seems to be very strict, tight-lipped and secretive about the development of Windows 9, and thus far no leak of any kind on Windows 9 been found yet.
The latest version of Google Chrome, Chrome 37, included the support of DirectWrite in order to improve text rendering and the looking of the fonts. Hardware-accelerated capable DirectWrite was designed by Microsoft as the text layout and glyph rendering API for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and future versions to replace GDI/GDI+ and Uniscribe for screen-oriented rendering.
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