April 26, 2013 9:46 AM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsAs I look back over this blog, I see that I've written numerous entries that are either focused on, or make mention of, Tel Aviv-based Soluto's offerings for optimizing PCs, remote management, and troubleshooting (run this
April 24, 2013 10:46 AM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsI've only got one desktop PC with a built-in Bluetooth interface: it comes with the Asus P8Z68-V PRO Gen3 motherboard that serves as the basis for my Windows 8 desktop test machine (which also features an i7 2600K CPU, 32 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX-560 graphics, and a 240 GB OCZ Vertex4 SSD). I use...
April 22, 2013 10:26 AM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsI'm always researching and writing. And for me, that means looking up stuff on one screen and writing about what I'm researching on the other. The following photo doesn't really do justice to my actual set-up's usability because the lighting is different from my normal working set-up to enable a...
April 19, 2013 1:52 PM
Posted by: Diana Hwang
DesktopsMicrosoft is a company in transition.
The company posted a 19% increase in profits for the third quarter and stressed the future for Windows lies in the shift to new form factor devices and touch-enabled products.
“We are working on suite of small devices powered by Windows,” said Peter...
April 19, 2013 1:28 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsI'm starting a new occasional series of blog posts called "MyFaves," to highlight some of the hardware items that I find absolutely indispensable in working on -- that is installing, managing, repairing, and backing up -- Windows systems. I'm going to kick this series off with a hardware accessory...
April 17, 2013 4:09 PM
Posted by: Diana Hwang
DesktopsIntel's quarterly earnings declined in Q1 thanks to sluggish PC sales, but the sky is not falling on the chip maker. The drop is simply a sign of the long-term transition toward mobile devices.
Intel Corp. posted $12.6 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2013, down 7% from the prior...
April 17, 2013 2:15 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsThanks to testing of some leaked images for the upcoming "refresh" for Windows 8 -- codenamed "Blue" or "Windows Blue" at present -- numerous sources have now confirmed that it may be possible to boot the next major Windows 8 release directly to the desktop. Likewise, the Start button and its...
April 13, 2013 8:35 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsIn recent days, IDC has reported that PC sales fell in the aggregate by a whopping 14% for the final quarter...
April 12, 2013 3:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsHere's one for the record books -- though perhaps not, when you pause to think about it further. This New Yorker headline from The Borowitz Report kind of says it all: "
