Novac’s Skype TV
Novac plans on making sure people don’t just think of phone calls when they think of Skype. Using the video conferencing functionality of Skype, Novac has come up with a piece of software that lets you transmit TV over Skype. By plugging in a USB TV tuner into your PC (yes, PC. Apparently, Novac hates…
MS Dumping WinFS
Oh, WinFS, we hardly knew ye! Sure, I was always a FAT32 guy, but WinFS promised to be… umm… a filesystem for Windows Vista. It was supposed to be great because like each file would be an object and that would make things so cool like allowing you to use inheritance and like meta-data and……
Apple To Show Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard at WWDC This August
Yeah, this is a little early, but we’re Apple zealots, remember? Apple has confirmed that Steve Jobs will once again keynote the Worldwide Developers Conference this August, where he will unveil the next major update to Mac OS X, Leopard. As of yet, hard details on how Leopard will improve all of our lives are…
The Poor Man’s Windows Vista: No Upgrading Necessary
Windows Vista’s not due for a few more months—the BETA notwithstanding— but that doesn’t mean that you can’t add all those spiffy, new age visual effects to your current Windows XP system. With a combination of several software tools, some elbow grease and a little bit of luck, your XP box can look just like…
Vista Torrent Site Closed
We talked about VistaTorrent last week and lo and behold MS has shut it down. The owners of the site were understandably miffed. https://gizmodo.com/get-yourself-some-vista-beta-180100 Chris and Jack write, “We were only trying to help Microsoft by doing this, assuming the costs and responsibilities associated with serving and seeding larger files. We did not alter, crack,…