Apple’s apps for Windows PC, like iTunes, QuickTime or Safari, are trash. And the same applies to iCloud for Windows. Every big platform, like Apple, Microsoft and Google, requires its own bloated account. Do you want to use Word on your Android device? Then you need both bloated Google and bloated Microsoft account. And then to join Apple… Read More »
With upcoming macOS Catalita and iPadOS, a new feature was added – Sidecar. Essentially, you can connect an iPad to your Mac – by cable or wirelessly – and enjoy an additional space for your Mac. As I’m not developer and I don’t have a developer account, I can’t try it on myself yet, but reports say that… Read More »
Since May 7th, US city Baltimore is under ransomware attack, reports The Verge. It affected government services like its e-mail systems and systems for other government services. According to security experts, hackers used EternalBlue, a “technology” developed by NSA for high-profile cyberattacks, which was stolen from NSA in April 2017 by hacker group The ShadowBrokers. NSA was reportedly… Read More »
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is present everywhere, even if we don’t recognize it. Our smartphones feature smart assistants like Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri. Some of the high-end mobile SoCs already include neural network accelerator, like Neural Engine in A12 chip found in iPhone Xs (including Xs Max and Xr) or AI engine in Snapdragon… Read More »
Ransomware is a plague of computer systems. In short, it encrypts files on your computer, so you can no longer access them, and ransomware typically wants payment, usually in cryptocurrency, to decrypt your files. In a lot of cases, you have also limited time to do so – otherwise you lose all your data forever. Some ransomware attacks… Read More »
At annual Build developer conference, Microsoft provided sneak peek of Edge for Mac. Edge is converting from its own rendering engine to Chromium, a rendering engine used by Google Chrome. Similarity is not only in rendering engine, but also in the look. In the past, Microsoft was developing Internet Explorer for Mac, which was default web browser for… Read More »
Do you remember HD-ready TVs? And later Full HD resolution? In that times, it was something amazing. But time flies, we got 4K resolution, HDR technology, and the main “issue” – much increased bitrate, which is critical to use services like streaming movies via Internet provided by services like Netflix. High data demanding tasks like streaming 60 FPS… Read More »
Some people are wondering why some users prefer iPad Pro from Apple over Surface Pro from Microsoft. Surface Pro is powered by desktop-class Windows, while iPad Pro uses mobile iOS, which we can find in iPhone – yea, in a cellphone. Are iPad Pro users “Apple sheeps” or they prefer iPad, because… because it’s iPad? Or because it’s… Read More »
10s of models of laptops from HP got pre-installed software that can be considered as a keylogger. Keylogger is a software, which can record what are you typing on your keyboard. These datas may be sent back to developer, so keyloggers are often abused to gain passwords, logins and other sensitive datas. In case of HP, this keylogger… Read More »
Some games are legendary. Most of today’s games are just based on graphic effects, marketing and extremely hardware requirements, without soul. You need nVidia GTX 1080 to play at 4K resolution because of “stunning graphic”, which is still not photorealistic as it should be, but hardware requirements are higher, so task is done. And of course, it does… Read More »
Today story will be about my new computer. My laptop was gone after 5 years, so I decided to get a new computer. For now, it will be a desktop. I was building it by myself, because with this way you can get better PC for lower price, it just needs some skills and googling. I will cover… Read More »
I’m big fan of macOS, but I must to say, that I’m missing some features from Windows. Especially from bottom/left/right (varies by your personal settings) dock. I can choose in System Preferences if I want to minimize document into app’s icon in dock or at right side of dock. When you have open many documents from same app,… Read More »
