Microsoft made a lot of changes with Windows 8, and a large portion of its user base did not agree with, well.. a large portion of them. But as the world begins to settle down and adjust to the predominantly tiled appearance of the user interface, one element that many desktop users have never gotten over is the Start menu, or lack of it, and the post-BUILD news that it would be making a dramatic return was met with a collective sigh of relief. Now, some new 'Windows 9' screenshots have emerged, and as well as offering an insight into what's from the software giant’s flagship OS, also gives us another look at that Start menu we all love so well.
It’s a new day and a new list of paid apps for your iPhone, iPod touch and/or iPad that you can obtain totally free if you hurry over to the iTunes App Store. For our regular readers, this regular feature needs no introduction, as they’re accustomed to us finding the best apps-gone-free deals for iOS and sharing them with our readers on a daily basis. Today, we have a total of 7 paid apps and games that you can get free right now. The list follows right after the break.
It's been a busy day for software-in-progress over at Apple today, and as well as rolling out OS X Yosemite 10.10 Developer Preview 4 and iOS 8 Beta 4, the Cupertino giant has also made iTunes 12 Beta available as part of Yosemite. As well as some serious design tweaks, there are also quite a few new features packed into this release, and as ever, you can check the details - as well as some first-hand screenshots - right here.
Saving links to be read later may seem like a simple, forgettable feature but as apps like Instapaper and Pinboard have already proven that there's plenty of use for such a feature. Now, two years after buying Instapaper competitor Spool, Facebook has launched its very own read-it-later service.
The MacBook range is iconic for a number of reasons, but the most differentiator between an Apple-made notebook and that of a rivaling brand is the famous, glowing logo on the rear of the case. For quite a while, iOS device users have wondered if something similar would ever grace the likes of the iPhone or iPad, and with the rumor mill currently awash with reports regarding the next-gen Apple smartphone, a new leak suggests that we may finally be getting our wish of an backlit logo with the iPhone 6.
Apple has just seeded the fourth developer preview of OS X 10.10 Yosemite for those subbed to its Mac Developer Program, and therein, you're likely to find general performance enhancements and bug fixes along with a shiny new release of iTunes 12 beta. Details, can be found after the break.
Concepts are a double-edged sword in that while they often dazzle, leaving us wishing that they were real, it's often the case that these products are unrealistic, infeasible, or simply impossible to create in the real world. With the smartwatch market currently experiencing something of a boom, we've seen a fair few wondrous concepts in this department already, yet the new, innovative design you see before you is not only extremely creative in beaming notifications using its projector, but it's also something that you can, quite literally, get your hands on.
Following the BUILD developers conference a few months back, Microsoft subsequently rolled out the minor-yet-eagerly-awaited Windows 8.1 Update 1. Therein, we found quite a few tweaks and performance enhancements as a part of the software giant’s mission to appease those running traditional PC rigs, and according to a new report, Update 2 is almost ready, and will arrive in three weeks' time.
It's only been a matter of days since Goophone introduced the world to its "iPhone 6" clone, but it seems the company is back with yet another attempt to capitalize on the excitement surrounding much-speculated Apple products. Not content with predicting and building what they believe represents the aesthetics of the next-generation iPhone, Goophone has pushed the boundaries even further by manufacturing and offering its own version of the purported "iWatch".
Spam text messages are nothing new, but security research firm Cloudmark is now warning people of a new approach being taken by those who previously relied on SMS to peddle their spam.
