YouTube celebrates 10 years of service this month since launching in May 2005. They made a video and image to go through the entire English alphabet to recap many of the things that have made YouTube great and the time just fly by. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoKkq685Hk From the YouTube blog, this picture was posted as well as a link to a YouTube trivia game: … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2015
Windows 8: “Windows Update needs your help!”
On Windows 8/8.1 and Server 2012/2012 R2, you might encounter the message popping up: "Windows Update needs your help: Windows Update hasn't been able to check for new updates for the last 30 days. Go to Windows Update to resolve this issue." You might receive this message for a variety of reasons, many of them intentional. You might have Windows Update automatic updates … [Read more...]
Western Digital redesigns the My Passport portable hard drive
WD introduced the 7th generation of their My Passport external hard drives today. They are available in 500 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB capacities with a 3 TB option coming next month. The drives are USB 3.0 to make adding and accessing files that much faster. The latest edition of the My Passport Ultra is available in 4 colors - Classic Black, Brilliant White, Wild Berry, and Noble … [Read more...]
Windows 10 will work with your smartphone, Cortana coming to Android and iPhone
In Microsoft's latest announcement about Windows 10, they focused on interacting with smartphones. A phone companion app on Windows 10 will allow better recognition between Windows Phone, Android, and iPhone/iPad. In addition to your computer working with your phone, Microsoft's digital personal assistant, Cortana, will be coming to Android and iOS. Move over Siri and Google … [Read more...]
a9t9, free, open-source OCR software
OCR software can save you a lot of typing when you only have a physical copy of a document. OCR stands for optical character recognition and such software can take an image such a scan of a document and provide an editable version of the text. Unless you are a particularly fast typist or only have a few pages that you need digitized, OCR software can be a lifesaver. Popular … [Read more...]