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Microsoft Surface gets Apple-d!

Karan Israni — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:47:13 +0000

Remember Microsoft's multi-touch table called 'Surface' unveiled at CES 2010? Yep the same 'Surface' whose 2nd rendition at CES 2011 was even more awesome. While CES 2012 was aloof of a 3rd attempt from Microsoft on 'Surface', designer Adam Bentor has carved out something quite amazing, alleged as Apple's own Surface and aptly named iDesk. [ Read More ]

Mac OSX Lion Keyboard Shortcuts

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:18:02 +0000

New to Mac and need the keyboard shortcut? A list below gives you all the shortcuts you would require on a daily basis. ⇧ shift ⌃ control ⌥ option ⌘ command ⇥ tab ↩ return ⌫ delete ⏏ eject ⎋ esc 1. ⌘E - Eject selected volume 2. ⌘ space - Spotlight Menu 3. ⌘ F - Find [ Read More ]

Apple seeds OS X 10.7.3 build 11D42 to devs

Karan Israni — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:52:17 +0000

Stepping aside for a moment from the extravagant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Apple has put developers to work by seeding the latest build (11D42) of OS X 10.7.3, bringing along the usual bug fixes and much more. Weighing in at 989.75 MB (for those updating from 10.7.2 and 1.26 GB for those updating from [ Read More ]

HP Spectre might just be HP's own MacBook Air (video)

Karan Israni — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:59:30 +0000

Ever since Apple released the MacBook Air in January of 2008, touting it as the World's Thinnest Notebook, many companies have tried to ape Apple's invention but kept failing miserably with each attempt. Today the Air, the best of the lot when you talk about UltraBooks, finds an unlikely competitor in HP's mysterious device, dubbed [ Read More ]

Facebook Messenger for Windows!

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:38:25 +0000

Facebook messenger is now available for Windows.You can now chat with your Facebook buddies using Facebook Messenger for Windows. You can download Facebook Messenger for windows here. For more details on the Facebook Messenger for Windows check this out

Flipkart offering some good Christmas and New Year deals!

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:09:28 +0000

Flipkart.com,a wonderful e-commerce website,has some good discounts on most products during this festive season of Christmas and New year. You could check out their entire holiday special catalog here. Enjoy shopping!!

How to:Hide any Files and Folders in Mac OS X

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:47:27 +0000

Ever wanted to hide anything in your mac os x and could not do it.Well,now there's a simple way you can do it. Just download the free app- hide folders. As the name suggests it helps you to hide files and folders. All you have to do is drag all the files and folders you [ Read More ]

Microsoft to Launch the Windows Store in february 2012

Aman Milwani — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:24:27 +0000

Microsoft is all set for one of its biggest launch-The Windows 8.With Apple eating up the computer market every year,Windows is expected to get back it's market share via it's completely new Windows 8. The windows 8 will have a windows store which will be quite similar to the mac app store. The windows store [ Read More ]

Safari 5.1.2 out now with bug fixes

Karan Israni — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:04:09 +0000

Apple has updated Safari to version 5.1.2, bringing along some minor bug fixes which previously affected users' browsing experience on the browser. The fix enhances your Safari with: Improved stability Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage Address issues that could cause webpages to flash white Allow PDFs to be displayed within [ Read More ]

Run Windows Apps on Mac OS without Bootcamp!

Aman Milwani — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:41:05 +0000

The Mac OS is an awesome OS but the true fact is that many games and applications are solely available for Windows and as Mac users we always wanted to use those applications as well.To use those applications we used bootcamp but this was an expensive and complicated affair. To solve the above problem without [ Read More ]

Apple updates US Store with Black Friday deals

Karan Israni — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:24:22 +0000

Apple's US online store is back up again and features plenty of deals to ponder over this Black Friday. There are discounts available for iPads, iPods, Macs, and several other products. So lets get started: Apple is offering a huge discount on the Macs, cutting off as much as $101 from its regular price. The [ Read More ]

Some news icons in iTunes.Understand what they mean.

Aman Milwani — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:00:57 +0000

Apple recently launched its iTunes Match service which lets users store their music in the cloud at a cheap price of $24.99 p.a. Below are some of the new icons which you need to understand once you use the iTunes Match service.