Good ole’ Notch from Mojang has decided that Minecraft has been confined to a PC for far too long. Minecraft is now available as an app from the Android Market. Here’s our groovy first look. To find it in the Android Market, search “minecraft pocket” or just click on this link. Minecraft Pocket sports the groovy little 3D grass square that we all know and love, and is made by the original Minecraft developer, Mojang....
Using Advanced Search Features in Windows 10 Update: Windows Search was decoupled from Cortana and is now its own field (or button) on the taskbar. You can use similar functions to the ones shown below with Windows Search. One of the first places you can start searching for files in Windows 10 is the Search box on the taskbar. We’ve already covered some of the power search features in Windows 10....
First of all, you need to know that you needn’t be worried. Skype will continue to work on your computer just as it did before. It’s just the Firefox add-on that gets soft blocked (meaning it’s blocked, but you have the option to re-enable it). The Firefox extension is used by Skype to turn phone numbers in websites into buttons that offer the possibility to make a Skype call. The extension has been responsible for roughly 40,000 Firefox crashes last week, so Mozilla felt the need to do something about it....
Long story short: it works. While it’s not quite as slick as I imagine NeatReceipts to be, it’s got two big advantages: Here’s how the entire NeatReceipts free alternative Google Docs OCR digital receipt filing system works: (Note: As a reminder, OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and essentially means that Google Docs can read text from a PDF or image and put it into editable and searchable format in Google Docs....
New Netflix Navigation Sidebar Today’s update incorporates a new sidebar on the left side of the screen that makes it easier for you to get to the content you want. The new sidebar features shortcuts to things like “Movies” and “TV” to filter through its enormous catalog by films and shows. It also includes “Search” and “My List” as well as a “New” button to see what’s been added. Instead of endlessly scrolling up and down to find movies, TV shows, and other options like Search and Settings, you can get there directly from the sidebar....
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier The all-new two-minute trailer for the series provides a more in-depth look into what we can expect. Disney says: “Marvel Studios’ “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier” stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson aka The Falcon, and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes aka The Winter Soldier. The pair, who came together in the final moments of “Avengers: Endgame,” team up on a global adventure that tests their abilities—and their patience....
*Photo via apple.com The new iPhone is made entirely out of glass and aluminum and looks just like it did in the leaked photos. No real surprise there. The iPhone 5 is essentially the same width as the iPhone 4S, but taller. It’s 7.6 mm thick, which means it’s 18% thinner than the iPhone 4S and weighs 112 grams. It comes in two colors, White and Black with an aluminum and anodized back....
Nokia CEO Steven Elop announced bringing its HERE maps to iOS pending Apple approval earlier this month. The app includes what you’d expect including search, map view, live traffic, public transportation and satellite view. You can share places with a tap, including location, how to get there via SMS or social networks. Another unique feature is voice-guided step by step walking navigations through parks and other pedestrian routes. Until Google gets its map app on iOS, this might be a good alternative....
OhLife.com Screenshot Tour Like all great ideas, OhLife is elegantly simple. Every day, OhLife will send you an email that asks: How did your day go? (They change it up for your first OhLife entry, but the concept is the same.) All you have to do is reply and it’ll be recorded as a private journal entry. To view old entries, just log in to OhLife.com. Or, every now and then, OhLife will reminisce with you by including a random journal entry form the past in its daily email....
PDFelement 8 brings you useful new features, functional improvements, and performance enhancements you’ll appreciate. You can create and edit, annotate and comment, and sign and secure your PDF documents using this all-inclusive application. Let’s walk through all that’s new with PDFelement 8. PDFelement 8 Features Before we delve into what’s new in the latest version, let’s dive into the basics of what you can do with PDFelement. Create PDFs and Forms With PDFelement 8, you can create a PDF from an existing file, a scanned document, or a blank PDF....
Free Ad-Supported Movies and TV Shows on Plex In addition to using Plex to view your local media collection, this partnership increases the amount of free digital content that Plex delivers. You can use Plex to subscribe to your favorite podcasts, and the service includes Plex Web shows that feature free and on-demand streaming videos on topics including sports, news, music, cooking, and more. “Our mission is to tame the growing chaos in the media landscape,” said Keith Valory, CEO of Plex....
Set Up Quiet Hours in Windows 8.1 Bring up the Charms bar and select Settings > Change PC Settings. Then click Search and Apps from the left menu then Notifications. Then scroll down to Quiet Hours and turn the switch on. Then select the hours of the day when you don’t want app notifications bothering you during the day. To have even more control over app notifications, scroll further down and turn individual app notification on or off....
This isn’t too surprising considering it’s still in beta. We also don’t know how many users will latch on to the Windows 8 tablets when they arrive on the market. What is surprising, according to the report, is there are still more users of Windows 2000 and NT than Windows 8 – though only by a small margin. According to our own poll on February 15th, out of 890 votes, 82% of you said you were counting down the days until the February 29th release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview....
Note: This process works the same in Windows 7 and 8. You just need to install Windows Media Center on Windows 8 first. First, make sure you have Windows Media Center set up. Then you’ll need an internal or external TV Tuner card installed in your computer. You’ll also need Satellite, Cable or an over the air antenna. Configure Windows Media Center for Live TV Launch WMC and scroll down to TV then Live TV Setup....
The app is meant to replace large, bulky desktop scanners with your mobile device. Its primary features include: Scan Documents and receipts to PDFsProcess Images with auto edge detectionReal-time border detection (whatever that means…)Email or print scanned documents (I used the email feature below. Very slick).Upload scans to online storage including Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive or iCloud which syncs across all your iDevices. Today I downloaded and tested out the scanning and email features on a receipt I always seem to lose track of right before tax season… Looks like I might have found my new favorite app thanks to Apple....
The idea behind RunPee is that every movie out there has a few scenes that aren’t valuable enough to hold off a bathroom break. However if you’ve never seen the movie before, you’ll never know when these are coming up. So before before going to the movie, or during the movie on your smartphone (shame on you; you annoying screen-glower), just log in to RunPee to get the lowdown on the best time to Run for Pee!...
Why is this so important? Just imagine you lose your phone or leave it at a friends house by accident. What kind of information is just sitting there waiting for someone start reading or abusing? Email? TXT’s? WiFi Access? Calendar information? Facebook? Naked pictures of Paris Hilton? (sorry… couldn’t resist). Shall I go on? No, I think you get the point. Let’s get started and setup that Passcode lock on your phone!...
It’s amazing to me how popular “texting” or Text Messaging has become over the last few years. Additionally, what’s even more amazing to me is the fact that a new language and possibly even a new culture appears to have spawned from this new technology! OMG, IMO it’s crzy LOL! ;) As fantastic as this all may be, I’ve found that if I want to send someone a text (especially a long one) while I’m working on my computer, it’s much easier to use Outlook rather than pull out my phone....
This allows you to shutdown Windows 8.1 on a Surface or other touch enabled device similarly to how you can with Windows Phone 8. Shutdown Windows 8.1 the Secret Way First go the the desktop and System32 folder. That’s located in This PC\Windows(C:)\Windows\System32. Now in the Search field, type: slideto. Or if that that doesn’t work for some reason you can type in the full name of the file we’re looking for which is “SlideToShutDown....
It also says that the service will be available for users of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, 3rd generation iPod touch, 4th generation iPod touch or the iPad, running Skype 3.0 or newer. Calls will be made over a 3G or WiFi connection and, if your device has a front and a rear camera, you will be able to switch between the two during the call. Camera pictures will also rotate when the device is rotated and the image will be zoomed when the screen is tapped in a certain area....
