Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn has said that the iPad has halved sales of laptops at the popular store in an interview with the Wall St Journal. As a result shoppers at the chain will find more tablets, e-readers and smartphones in stores and fewer desktop PCs. The news doesn’t come as a major surprise [...]
Bing Maps Gets Transit Directions
Bing Maps until recently only offered driving and walking directions for users of the maps service. Today the team announced that they have expanded this by adding transit information for 11 US American and Canadian cities to the information already displayed. While eleven may not sound like much, it is a solid start and the [...]
Email Client Thunderbird 3.1.4 Released
We have already seen lots of updates this week; From the first beta of Internet Explorer 9, to updates for the Firefox web browser and Google Chrome updates. Lots of downloading, updating and testing for a week. An update for the desktop email client Thunderbird was just released, raising the version of the email software [...]
Troubleshoot Internet Explorer With SF IE Restorator
The tight integration of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the Windows operating system means that problems with the browser can have an impact on the functionality of the operating system, even if the browser itself is used scarcely or not at all. Our Repair Internet Explorer troubleshooting guide dealt with many problems that Internet Explorer users [...]
Radeon Drivers Now Distributed On Steam Platform
Especially gamers need to make sure that their video card drivers are up to date. Why? Because those drivers may add new features, improve compatibility of games or the overall performance while gaming or performing other gpu intensive tasks on the PC. Up until now, this had to be done manually. Gamers had to check [...]
Halo Reach makes $200m in 24 hours
Microsoft’s latest game for the XBox 360 console, Halo: Reach has made $200 million in its first 24 hours after launch according to data released by Microsoft and reported by TechFlash. The previous Halo game topped the all time games sales chart until it was dethroned by Call of Duty 2: Modern Warfare. Now the [...]
Firefox 3.6.10 Is Out, Update Now
A short period between updates often indicates a pressing matter that needed to be addressed as quickly as possible. For web browsers, it usually means either a security or stability update that fixes a problem that at least a percentage of users are experiencing. In this case, Firefox 3.6.10 fixes a single highly critical stability [...]
Screen Markers, Add Marker Lines On The Screen
Markers on the screen can sometimes be very handy, for instance when designing or trying to place objects in an exact spot on the computer desktop. The free software Screen Markers has been designed to provide exactly that functionality. It can be used an unlimited amount of marker lines on the computer screen. Here is [...]
Flash Player Square Preview, 64-bit Support Included
Adobe yesterday has released a preview version of Flash Player Square, a new version of the popular browser plugin. This preview version adds two core new features to Adobe’s Flash Player, namely enhanced support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Beta which was also released yesterday, and native 64-bit support for all supported operating systems including [...]