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Valve: Coming to the Mac is "biggest event in Steam’s history"
Mar 18th
Filed under: Gaming
The good folks at Joystiq got to sit down and talk with John Cook, the director of Steam at Valve, and he says there’s probably no comparison to the news Read more ...
Count The Beats: Learn to read and play sheet music with Etude on your iPhone / iPod Touch
Mar 17th
From t
he creators of
ShoveBox, Wonder Wrap Software has just launched their new iPhone / iPod Touch app
Etude.
Etude is a beautifully designed app that helps you learn to read and play sheet music on the piano.
While the built-in synthesizer plays through a piece of music, Etude will scroll through the sheet music being read (correlating each note heard to each note read). Read more ...
MIX 2010: What’s Up With IE9
Mar 16th
This week, during the MIX 10 conference, Microsoft will unveil many things regarding its new mobile platform, but on the desktop OS level there are many holding their breath for news about the next version of Internet Explorer. Will it be fast? Will it be compatible? Will it be safe? I’m in the small category of people who do not mind the slight difference in speed in my browser as long as it’s safe, and IE has always kept my machine safe.
Courtesy of ZDNet
Will it be fast?
For those craving more speed…good news. Microsoft seems to be working very hard to even the speed race Read more ...
MIX 2010: What’s Up With IE9
Mar 16th
This week, during the MIX 10 conference, Microsoft will unveil many things regarding its new mobile platform, but on the desktop OS level there are many holding their breath for news about the next version of Internet Explorer. Will it be fast? Will it be compatible? Will it be safe? I’m in the small category of people who do not mind the slight difference in speed in my browser as long as it’s safe, and IE has always kept my machine safe.
Courtesy of ZDNet
Will it be fast?
For those craving more speed…good news. Microsoft seems to be working very hard to even the speed race Read more ...
The Often Overlooked Context Menu Part 2
Mar 16th
Add Useful Commands to your Context Menu
This is the second part of my article on Context Menus.
I like to change my computer’s settings every so often. This includes the Desktop Background, the screen saver and so on.
This can be done by going into the Control Panel but wouldn’t it be quicker if I had the necessary tools at my finger tips. By this I mean available on my Desktop Context menu.
You may well say why not use the Personalization command that’s already there but I want something more. I want to have more direct control changing such thing as . . .
- Themes
- Desktop Background
- Screen Saver
- Appearance
- Display Settings
- Desktop Icons Settings
- DPI Scaling
- Window Read more ...
