Category: PC & Tech

Microsofts going to announce some more official details about Windows 8 from now on, but until then we will just give some interesting titbits from leaked version of the OS. The batch includes a most conclusive evidence yet of Windows 8 app store, including logo in the picture, the other references at the code level…

Adobes demos of iPad compatibility, interacting with Photoshop for some time and now it looks that is finally be able to take the whole thing for a spin. As said the company today released the Creative Suite5.5, features the ability to use tablets and smartphones to interact with companys flagship image editing software. While there…

The 14-inch P430 and 15.6-inch P530 mark the start of its new Blade Series of laptops, which are the result of slimming work at LG labs. The display thickness is 4.5mm and 4.7mm respectively. The bazel on 14inch model is so narrow as to fit its screen within the dimensions of a traditional 13.3 inch…

Japan always provides us with new innovations, the latest one is being a kiss transmission device, it will record, relay and if you wish it, it will replay your finest tongue. It got a plastic implement taking input from one persons mouth and conveying it to a second box, intended to be gobbled up by…

The Researchers from Tufts University have built a robot that is able to mimic the way a caterpillar balls itself up to bounce away from predators. As you see the videos we had given, while the robot is quite bigger than the actual bug, is does indeed to do a good caterpillar intimation. The researchers…

Ubuntu 11.04 or Natty Narwhal, is now here and packing the significant changes from earlier editions of the Linux distro. The most obvious is arrival of Unity desktop environment, which was relegated to netbooks. It got integrated search, a combination launcher and taskbar, and app menus that have been moved to the top of the…

When Google unveiled its WebM open source media format and declared it to be the one codec to rule all others, there were those who decried its usefulness and felt that H.264 should inherit the earth. WebMs power converted some of those, and rally to more to the VP8 / Vorbis cause, 17 companies have…

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Club has birthed vibration, a Robotic Vibraphone. Vibratrons Ardunio Mega controls 30 solenoid gates that drop steel balls onto the vibration keys, producing a note; an Archimedes screw recycles the bearings, turning them once more into sweet, sweet music. We should also note the vibration doesnt put decent salt-of-the-earth vibraphonists out of…

According to Wrap, Googles YouTube has finally locked up all the studio deals to get itself fully into the online movie rental game. It indicates that YouTube could launch this as soon as this week with movies from majors including Sony, Warner and Universal, as well smaller entities like Lionsgate, Kino Lorber and other independents.

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 has reached 100 million downloads, Mozillas community coordinator for Firefox marketing revealed it on his personal blog last weekend. While this is quite a achievement , a web analytics company showed that Firefox 4 has done nothing to boost Mozillas overall share of the browser market. Most of the 100 million downloads…

18 months after Windows 7 was released, Microsoft is boasting that it had sold 350 million licenses of its operating system. Windows 7, is flourishing both at home and at work. Microsoft cites and IDC estimate that 90 percent of corporations are currently in the process of migrating to Windows 7, and Redmond claims that…

Researchers in France have found a way to double the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives by constructing 3D Towers on information. The persons from SPINTEC created these pillars out of bit-patterned media separated magnetic nanodots, each of which carries one bit of data. By layering the dots in specific formations, the team created a…

Today April 22nd, is the day we celebrate our planet and its resources that should be preserved, and it is Earth Day. Many popular websites are raising awareness about this day; this year Google is celebrating animated, interactive Doodle on its home page and Yahoo also sports an animated logo.

The Texas-based Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) has sent its SARbot to Rikuzentakata. This can shoot video as it swims under houses and other crippled structures, but it also sports a limb grasping mechanism, designed to retrieve drowning victims and assist in other search and rescue operations. Dont forget to check the video…

In this article we will see how to completely rename an Oracle database and the four different methods to do it.