Two big name multimedia programs are making their way to the Android platform and recently released betas. MediaMonkey is music library manager similar to iTunes but in my opinion, much better. XBMC is a media center designed to make your computer into the ultimate entertainment hub. Starting off on the Xbox, it has found a special place in the heart of cordcutters, especially … [Read more...]
Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor adds 60 cores through a PCI-Express card
Intel is angling to get a piece of the pie that video cards are currently enjoying as the GPGPU trend continues to grow. GPGPU, or general processing on a graphics processing unit, uses the GPU on a computer's dedicated graphics card to do additional processing in parallel. GPUs are particularly well suited for floating point operations and their applications can range from … [Read more...]
How to “View Remote Printers” in Windows 8
The other day while troubleshooting our printer install script, I showed a co-worker how you could "view remote printers" on a computer from Windows 7 to see if the computer had successfully installed the printer. He mentioned it to another co-worker who was also interested in seeing how this could be done. I sat down to show the second co-worker at a Windows 8 computer and … [Read more...]
Microsoft announces pricing and details of Surface with Windows 8 Pro
Today, Microsoft announced further details of the Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro. The Surface with Windows RT has been out for a month now and seems to be getting pretty good reviews for its hardware construction. The details in today's announcement include the pricing, capacity options, and some hardware differences between the Surface RT and the Surface with Windows 8 … [Read more...]
Microsoft makes fun of IE-hating Trolls on the Internet
Microsoft is poking a little fun at all the people that love to hate on its browser, Internet Explorer. With a video released today, they show a man that just loves commenting on all the IE-related articles and videos that IE still sucks. You can watch video embedded after the jump. … [Read more...]