It’s Windows 10 day! Again . This time though, Microsoft had a ton of in depth announcements about free upgrades, the future of Windows Phones, playing Xbox games on PC, and putting holodeck goggles on your face. Here are the highlights. Read more…
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Everything Microsoft Announced About Windows 10 Today
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 35 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Major additions to the browser include room-based Firefox Hello conversations, H.264 (MP4 files) playback on OS X, and integration with the Android download manager. Mozilla has opened up the Firefox Marketplace for the desktop, currently in beta. While Firefox Marketplace is already available on Firefox OS and Firefox for Android, the company is now asking users to help test apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Full changelogs: desktop and Android.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support
An anonymous reader writes An Indiana court has ruled that a hard drive that was sent to recycling was not destruction of evidence. The ruling stems from a BitTorrent file-sharing case filed by Malibu Media where a defendant claimed that his hard drive had failed thanks to heavy use. Malibu claimed that the act was destruction of evidence and filed a motion demanding a default judgement. The court denied this motion suggesting that because the hard drive failed, there was no evidence to destroy in the first place. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Indiana Court Rules Melted Down Hard Drive Not Destruction of Evidence
Command line utilities are often reserved for only the geekiest amongst us, but many of them are actually a lot better than desktop alternatives. In fact, many are easier to use, waste less resources, and often have more keyboard shortcuts. Let’s take a look at a few of the best. Read more…
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The Best Command Line Replacements for Bloated Desktop Apps
Amazon’s celebrating Christmas Eve by giving away 40 premium Android apps via the Amazon App Store. The full list is below, and a lot of them are actually really popular apps, including Terraria , djay 2 , and Plex . Read more…
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Amazon’s Giving Away 40 Premium Android Apps and Games for Christmas
You’ve likely heard before that you should never defragment your SSD. Conventional wisdom says not only do solid state drives not need defragging, doing so would cause unnecessary writes to the drive. This is only partially true. In fact, Windows does sometimes defragment SSDs—on purpose. Read more…
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Windows Does Defragment SSDs, But It’s Okay
VLC is easily one of our favorite media players (and yours too ). However, it’s not just a one-trick pony. Under the surface, there’s a wide range of features that you might not have known it could do. Read more…
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The Best Hidden Features of VLC
An anonymous reader writes Everyone is well-aware by now that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have not seen the impressive adoption rate of their predecessor. Yet the duo had a particularly good run last month, finally passing 15 percent market share together. Together, they owned 16.80 percent of the market at the end of October, up from 12.26 percent at the end of September. Windows XP meanwhile dropped a whopping 6.69 points to 17.18 percent. The biggest catalyst for these changes was most likely back to school sales in September, which are better reflected in the data after students use their new machines for a full month. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Windows 8 and 8.1 Pass 15% Market Share, Windows XP Drops Below 20% Mark
Windows: With the release of Yosemite , even the most diehard fans of Microsoft’s OS at least once thought about moving to Mac OS X. Reasons may be different, but in case they are the appearance and style, then there is a nice solution that you can try out. Read more…
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Yosemite Transformation Pack Makes Your Windows Desktop Look Like OS X
It’s been a long time, but the Mac Mini just got an update. It now has Intel’s Haswell processor which brings more computing power, better integrated graphics, and improved power efficiency. And now it starts at just $500. Read more…
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The Mac Mini Is Back with Speedy New Guts