Windows 8 represents the most radical change to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 95 was released 17 years ago. With its new Start screen and interface, the latest version of Windows is an attempt to create a single operating system designed to run on both traditional PCs and tablets.
The way we interact with machines is always changing. As technology evolves, new
ways of interacting with computers become available to us, one innovative breakthrough
after the next. If we go back 10 years, RIM was just starting to implement
phone capabilities into their line of Blackberry mobile devices. Now we...
Mobile user experience is a new frontier. Untethered from a keyboard and mouse, this rich design space is lush with opportunity to invent new and more human ways for people to interact with information. Invention requires casting off many anchors and conventions inherited from the last 50 years of computer science and traditional design and...
Everyone you know has a smart mobile device of some kind. You probably own several!
The general idea of having utility applications on a phone is not new, and even cell phone and PDA games have existed for years, but the way that the iPhone used touch instead of
a stylus or keyboard, and gestures to reduce the number of steps to do...
TextMate is a highly extensible Mac OS X GUI text editor that has gained quite a bit of
developer notoriety through the years. Created in 2004 by Allan Odgaard, TextMate 1
started out as a simple editor. By 2006, when TextMate 1.5 was released, it won the
Apple Design Award for Best Developer Tool, and has gained a vast community...
Get a real feel for Windows 8 with a wealth of tips in this step-by-step guide. After using Windows 7 or XP, learning Microsoft’s latest operating system takes some adjustment. Never fear. Windows expert Mike Halsey starts with the basics and then takes you through the trickier parts of Microsoft’s latest operating...
There’s an old story about blind men examining
an elephant. Based on what they feel, each
man concludes that the elephant is something
completely different—one man believes the
elephant is a tree, another man a snake, the
third a wall. When you first share your iPad with
your family and...
Windows 8 is the most important change to the Windows operating system since
Windows
95. While almost everything you’ve come to love about earlier versions
of Windows is still available, Windows 8 provides an infrastructure on which the
next generation of PCs and apps will be built. These new PCs and...
Thousands of small companies and nonprofit organizations turn to QuickBooks to keep their finances on track. And over the years, Intuit has introduced various editions of the program to satisfy the needs of different types of companies. Back when milk was simply milk, you either used QuickBooks or you didn’t. But now, when you...
Tips, tricks, treats, and secrets revealed on Windows 8
Microsoft is introducing a major new release of its Windows operating system, Windows 8, and what better way for you to learn all the ins and outs than from two internationally recognized Windows experts and Microsoft insiders, authors Paul Thurrott and Rafael...
Welcome to Windows Server 2012 Inside Out. As the author of many popular technology books, I’ve been writing professionally about Windows and Windows Server since 1994. Over the years, I’ve gained a unique perspective—the kind of perspective you can gain only after working with technologies for many years. The...
