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Take A Tour Of Microsoft’s Flagship 5th Ave Store
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 just opened a brand new, flagship store at 677 5th Avenue, in New York City. And since we’re just a short drive away, and were already spending some time in Manhattan with the folks from Motorola and Verizon, we thought we’d pop in and take a look around. The store is comprised of multiple stories—an elevator has buttons for floors 1 – 4, but only the first three floors are open to the public.
The store was absolutely jammed when we arrived and customers appeared to be enamored with the latest Surface devices, especially the Surface Book...
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Web Browser Performance Comparison And Database
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The Internet is an ever changing congruous mass of standards, design, and interoperability challenges. Keeping on top of it all can be a daunting task. It's a delicate balance between features, security and performance. If you are considering swapping out your browser for something new and fresh, but uncertain over the real performance difference, this article should help with lots of insight.
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Graphics Cards For Linux Gaming With The Best Value
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"Last week I published The Best, Most Efficient Graphics Cards
For 1080p Linux Gamers while today are some complementary results with
an assortment of NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards while
running all tests at 2560 x 1440 as a more demanding scenario than last
week's results."
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F-Secure Freedome VPN Software Application Review
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Security and privacy is something we take for granted, however in todays online world it’s something that’s easily taken away from you. VPN applications and services have been around for a long time, but the F-Secure Freedome app states it’s a new kind of simple, but powerful, online privacy and security app. Let’s take a closer look.
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Shadow of Mordor Performance: Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux
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"Last week Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was released for
Linux after this AAA game premiered for Windows last year. Following its
release I ran some Shadow of Mordor Linux benchmarks (and part two).
Today are results on the same system when comparing the performance of
this game under Ubuntu 15.04 to that of Windows 10 x64 Pro."
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Razer Firefly Review
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The Razer Firefly comes in to complete the Chroma setup, through the Razer synapse software you can sync the colour and glow to your other Chroma enabled devices and through the Chroma SDK, developers can also create lighting effects to enhance in game actions and immersion. Coming in at quite a high price for 'just a mouse mat' this will undoubtedly draw attention for any enthusiasts looking to light up their desk.
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Microsoft Launches Skype For Business
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On Thursday, the 14th of May 2015, Microsoft Malaysia officially launched Skype for Business, giving businesses in Malaysia the familiar experience of Skype with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and control of Microsoft Lync.
Microsoft is convinced that this combination of Skype and Lync will deliver an incredibly useful and trusted communications and collaboration platform for people working together. Let's take a look!
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How To Integrate Cloud Storage Services With Microsoft Office 2013 Rev. 2.0.
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To avoid another antitrust case (remember Internet Explorer?), Microsoft Office 2013 comes with the ability to integrate with third-party cloud storage providers. However, they are not making it easy.
The integration option isn't even mentioned in the Help service. It's certainly not found in the Microsoft Support website. In fact, it lies buried in a Word document download in the Microsoft Download Center.
No shit. That's like keeping candy in the garage and expecting your kids to figure out where to find them. Okay, maybe that's the idea...
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How To Give Adobe Photoshop A Performance Boost With Your GPU
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The Mercury Graphics Engine (MGE) in Adobe Photoshop CS6, Photoshop CC and Photoshop CC 2014 will automatically use your computer's graphics card to accelerate filters, as well as other features like perspective warp, upscaling, focus mask, etc. All you need is a GPU that supports OpenGL or OpenCL with at least 512 MB of graphics memory, requirements which practically every graphics solution in the market meets.
If you are using a laptop with switchable graphics though, Photoshop will not automatically use your GPU to accelerate its functions. Instead, it will always use the integrated graphics solution, which is not only slower but saps some of the system memory for use as graphics memory. So even if we ignore the better performance of discrete GPUs, it's worth using them to free up system memory for Photoshop to use.
Let us show you how you can get Adobe Photoshop to use your discrete GPU, instead of the processor graphics or integrated graphics, for a boost in graphics and memory performance!
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How to install the PLEX Unofficial App Store
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Having been a long time fan of the home theater PC, I have many times experimented with different platforms. These range from XBMC (now KODI), MediaPortal, Windows Media Center, PLEX, and a few others. What always led me back to XMBC, now KODI, was the incredible list of available addons. These addons added a ton of functionality that I couldn't find anywhere else. Recently, I decided to give PLEX another go as some of my family moves towards portable devices and in the interest of preventing another mutiny, I figured I would proactively implement an additional, easy to use, portable streaming solution.
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littleBits Smart Home Kit Review
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Retrofitting an existing home with so-called "Internet of Things" gadgets isn’t cheap, but with the right tools you can hack cloud functionality into your dumb appliances. littleBits is an ever-growing library of small electronic modules that easily connect together. Created by Ayah Bdeir, it started as a tool to help designers incorporate electronics into the prototyping process. Today, it’s much more than that. Think of them as Legos for the iPad generation.
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Can the Nvidia GRID service make cloud gaming ?
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Several major gaming hardware makers are in the midst of making a big push for cloud gaming, with new services like the Nvidia GRID and PlayStation Now beginning to pop up with technological gains over tried and failed services, such as On Live. However, despite cloud technology coming as far as it has over the last couple of years, many are still skeptical and run for the hills when 'the cloud' is mentioned, which brings me to the question we are going to try and answer right now- Is cloud gaming viable today in its current form?
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Security expert: Regin is scary - be on alert
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"Cybersecurity companies are outlining additional details about the sophisticated Regin spyware malware, but no one has a complete picture just yet. End users don't need to be overly concerned about Regin, as it's not malware designed to snoop on them - and essentially is impossible to detect and prevent.
"Home users don't need to be overly concerned about this threat as their ability to identify an attack by it is very close to zero. However, it is even more important to take note - and respond accordingly - to any communications from their ISP indicating they have been compromised."
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New TrueCrypt - VeraCrypt Or CipherShed?
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There is a genuine need for TrueCrypt to be further developed, if only to support newer operating systems and to remove or mitigate the weaknesses identified by the TrueCrypt Audit. Thus, it was no big surprise when everyone started to call for a new team to develop TrueCrypt, or a fork of it.
In stepped TrueCryptNext (TCNext) - an attempt to kickstart a replacement for TrueCrypt. Despite considerable skepticism, they announced in September that their fledging effort, CipherShed, is now closer to alpha release, pending a security review. This is remarkable progress though, since they only started coding work mid-June.
In the meantime, a French cryptography and IT security company called IDRIX announced the release of VeraCrypt 1.0e. VeraCrypt is based on TrueCrypt's source code and looks very similar to TrueCrypt. Take a look...
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GPU-Accelerated Virtual Desktops
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While we've long moved away from the early days of the mainframe and thin clients, there are some areas of computing where we're seeing a push back to similar architectures. We'll take a look at some of the more common advantages and disadvantages of virtual desktops, offer our general impressions on using them, and make some educated guesses as to whether virtual desktops truly are the future of computing or if they will likely remain a niche technology.
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