Windows 8 Hotmail integration succeeds where Gmail fails

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Stephen Pate

By integrating all your email accounts into one web client, Hotmail or Windows Mail makes managing email easy

Only Microsoft Office and Windows Live mail can combine all your mail accounts into one client and even one data file.

Download the Consumer Preview of Windows 8

Windows Live as a Microsoft brand will disappear when Windows 8 ships. Windows 8 Mail is a better product that integrates more smoothly with the operating system. Windows 8 will bring many new features for users that make it an upgrade to own.
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Sonnox and UAD team up on UAD-2 Plugin Development

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Stephen Pate

UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins Platform to Feature to Premium Mixing and Mastering Software from Sonnox

UAD-2 plugins with UAD-2 Quad and Duo (photo Universal Audio)

Universal Audio has inked a Direct Development Partner with Sonnox in the UK.

For audio recording enthusiasts it means they will be able to run the highly praised Sonnox Oxford plugins on their UAD-2 DSP processor cards.

Sonnox, formerly a division of Sony, is highly regarded for the quality of its Sonnox Oxford audio plugins, originally for Digidesign and ProTools. Oxford plugins are now available for most DAW platforms on VST and Audio Unit platforms. Continue reading →

Hello IT – Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Stephen Pate

Build your own $259 Intel i3 PC

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Stephen Pate

TigerDirect kit with Intel i3-22100 CPU 500 GB hard drive and 4 GB RAM for a low cost Intel computer

Intel i3-2100 Kit

Updated now $289 – Low priced computer kits don’t mean low performance or quality. Tiger Direct has two kits anyone with reasonable skills could make for less than $290 ~~$260~~.

Either kit would be fun to assemble and provide lots of computing power for desktop work and web surfing.

Windows 8 is more efficient than older versions of Windows. Either computer kit will be faster than many costlier computers if you use Windows 8. Continue reading →

Windows 8 consumer preview February 29 2012

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Stephen Pate

We’ve waited and it’s only a few days away for the next version of Microsoft’s popular operating system

Windows 8 Metro interface

Microsoft announced that the next step in releasing Windows 8 will occur with a Consumer Preview release of Windows 8.

Actually it didn’t announced the preview but did invite people to a special event in Barcelona, Spain after which consumers will be able to download the free consumer preview of Windows 8. Continue reading →

Finding the dream job with Microsoft

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Stephen Pate

The dream job has arrived – learning, testing and recommending Microsoft’s new SQL Server 2012

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is about to ship on March 7, 2012.

Don’t even think about getting a copy unless you are one of the elite Microsoft beta testers or have the Release Candidate which is available now.

That’s right. You have to be connected to Microsoft to qualify to install and test the new release of SQL server which is better than Oracle in some respects. Continue reading →

Windows 8 may have look and select

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Stephen Pate

Tobii gaze technology lets you pick what you see on the screen at CES 2012

A Swedish company is showing technology that makes it possible to select screen items simply by looking at them.
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Bell Aliant FiberOP is fastest game in town

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Stephen Pate

Blazing download speeds of 30 Mbps and upload 10 – 28 Mbps

BellAliant FiberOp speed test

Updated 8:36 PM – reconnect your set top box with HDMI if you want HD television. The Aliant techs leave it hooked at the lowest level, 480p, for testing purposes.

After months of watching those TV ads for 30 Mbps internet speeds, I made the jump back to BellAliant for the new FiberOP internet.

Actual performance what you’d expect from the tests – very fast.

The results are stunning and handily beat 30 Mbps service from Eastlink.

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Minority Report coming to Windows in 2012

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Stephen Pate

First the mouse and windows in the 1980s, then touch and swipe with iPhone and soon gesture and voice will control your computer

Kinect controlling medicine (photo Microsoft)

Apple won the latest round of the computer interface war but Microsoft is fast on Apple’s heels with Kinect for Windows. Kinect is a game changing technology.

As visualized in Minority Report, we won’t touch the mouse or screen but merely gesture with our bodies.
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Apple and Android Apps are headed to the computer museum

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Stephen Pate

44% of 800 million Facebook users go online with a smartphone and incompatible websites are losing customers

Image digitalbuzz

The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.

Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.

Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web. Continue reading →

Little Labs VOG the essential bass tool

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Stephen Pate

Universal Audio plug-in delivers Little Labs bass processing you’ll want to have

UAD has just released the $149 plug-in modeled on Little Labs 500-series lunchbox module. It makes mixing the low end of your recordings a breeze at a small price.
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