Today, Apple debuted Final Cut Pro X for the ridiculously low price of $299.99, along with Compressor 4 and Motion 5 -- $49.99 each. The previous version, available as a suite, sold for $999. The price cut reflects Apple passing savings onto customers through the Mac App Store. [......]
Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8 : Microsoft's Windows 8 demonstration at the D9 conference looked pretty, but carried a chilling message for developers: if they wanted to write for the new operating system, they'd have to use HTML5 and JavaScript. This might seem a crazy move from a company that prides itself on backwards compatibility, but the warning signs have been there for quite some time now[......]
I love Microsoft Outlook. I know a lot of people hate it, but I'm inclined to believe that they don't use Outlook well enough[......]
But don't crash your phone along the way. Microsoft is preparing the developer channel for release of Internet Explorer 9 Mobile, which is coming with Windows Phone "Mango" sometime in the Fall. [......]
As the weeks go by, we continue to learn more about the next major Windows release, Windows 8. We know, for example, that Windows 8 will integrate Xbox Live support , and that the new Start screen will look a lot like Windows Phone Live Tiles. [......]
In years past, Apple would dangle a free iPod touch in front of college kids shopping a computer. Combined with the 10 percent education pricing discount, it was a tantalizing offer that some students found too good to pass up, and as Fortune points out, may have served as "a gateway drug that left users craving for an iPhone." Unfortunately for the class of 2011, Apple has decided to tighten its belt this year. Instead of a free iPod touch, back-to-school shoppers get a $100 gift card that can be used at the Mac App Store, the iOS App Store, the iTunes Store, or Apple's iBookstore[......]
When it comes to driver updates, computer users typically fall into one of two categories. There are the conservative types who prefer to wait a few days to make sure the new drivers don't break anything, and there are those who can't install the new drivers fast enough to take advantage of the new features, performance boosts, and bug fixes[......]
It's tough out there for those concerned with ergonomics on a budget. Those two concepts don't often go hand-in-hand, or hand-in-wallet, as the case may be. But there are always exceptions to the rule, such as Microsoft's newly announced Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000, Redmond's second generation Comfort Curve plank that will only set typists back a couple of Hamiltons. [......]
Bill Gates has once again insisted that the next big thing is speech and voice recognition. [......]
A portion of Skype users found themselves without service Tuesday after a configuration problem caused the VoIP provider's systems to crash. [......]
If you administer Windows systems you must know about Microsoft's Sysinternals tools . [......]
After Microsoft's unveiling of Windows 8 at the D9 conference yesterday, we were a little perplexed. One OS for both PCs and mobile devices[......]
In an effort to avoid costly patent litigation, Microsoft has become the first company to sign up to a crowdsourcing service that seeks to find prior art and eliminate patents that should not have been awarded. The new Litigation Avoidance Program comes from Article One Partners , a startup that pays cash rewards to discoverers of prior art[......]
Being first isn't always something to brag about. [......]
Earlier today, Apple debuted iWork for iPhone and iPod touch. The iPad version has been available since the tablet launched 13 months ago[......]
