Google quietly announced a new file-sharing feature for Google Drive. When you’re using Google Drive on a Mac or PC, you can now share with a right click from the Google Drive folder.
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013[Rumor] Boot To Desktop Option Will Be Added To Windows Blue
Thursday, April 18th, 2013One of the more controversial decisions in Windows 8 was how the OS forced users to boot into the new Start menu metro interface. You could get into the desktop from that, but then you would be without the iconic Start button. There are unofficial workarounds, but nothing official just yet.
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The Next Windows OS Will Not Be Called Blue
Thursday, March 28th, 2013For the past few months, it’s been rumored that the next operating system from Microsoft would be called WIndows Blue. It sounds like a code name, and Microsoft suggests that will remain the case.
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Amazon’s EC2 Gets High Memory Cluster Instances
Thursday, January 24th, 2013Amazon announced new High Memory Cluster instances for Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These are designed for memory-intensive applications, like in-memory analytics, databases, caching, and scientific computing, the company says.
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Recent Update Makes Chrome Even Faster
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012Speed might just be the most important element of any Web browser. Users expect to type in an address and get to a Web site with little to no delay. Out of all the browsers, Chrome is usually considered to be the speediest around, but now Google has some hard numbers to show that Chrome really is getting faster all the time.
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Is The Upgrade To Windows 8 Worth It?
Thursday, August 30th, 2012Windows 8 upgrades will be coming to current Windows users on October 26. The question now is whether or not you should take Microsoft up on their fantastic offer to upgrade to the new OSfor only $39.99. Some doomsayers claim that Windows 8 will be bad for everyone, but it’s true value will be determined by what you use a PC for. (more…)
Google Chrome Drops Support For H.264
Thursday, January 13th, 2011It has only been a few minutes since the news of Google removing support for the H.264 video codec from Chrome in favour of WebM, a codec that Google open-sourced after their acquisition of On2, has been making the rounds. Is this significant? I guess it depends who you ask, but Chrome is certainly a browser that’s quickly gaining traction, and rightly so.
Is Open-Source A Viable Solution To Financial Institutions?
Thursday, December 16th, 2010A recent news story published by the Bloomberg Businessweek claimed that an Ex-Goldman Sachs programmer was found guilty of stealing certain source codes to use it for his new employer’s benefit. During the trial an argument put across by the defendant was that most of the codes that he stole were open source in nature. But the matter that caught most people’s attention was the fact that a financial institution like Goldman Sachs is also one amongst a plethora of open source code users.
More IT Managers Turning To The Cloud
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Three-fourths of companies either currently use enterprise-grade cloud computing or plan to over the next five years, according to a new study commissioned by Savvis.
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Wave in a Box: Open Source Google Wave
Thursday, November 11th, 2010More than a year has passed since Google first introduced Google Wave to the public. With it’s initial offering being invite-only, those with accounts found little motivation to use the service in the beginning, but some people eventually co-opted the Google Wave collaboration paradigm with success. Though never considered a true threat to other well-established social networks. The collaboration aspect to Google Wave always held the promise of changing the way businesses communicate internally. (more…)