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New promotional offer from Microsoft lures students into buying a Surface Pro 4 in the United States and Canada. The company is currently offering a discount of $300 when students buy a Surface Pro 4 and Xbox One. Technically this means that you’re getting a free Xbox One. The new discount deal comes in celebration of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update arriving on August 2nd. “We’d like to make it easy for everyone to enjoy the great new features in the Anniversary Update....

Even though Adobe Photoshop is the standard for creating professional image, not everyone can afford or want to pay the high pay for it. If you are looking for a free online alternative to Photoshop, then SUMO Paint is the best that you can get. Sumo Paint is a free online image editor that looks like a complete clone of Adobe Photoshop. It is built with Adobe Flex and run completely from your browser....

The game, ‘Halo: Spartan Assault’, for Windows 8/RT and Windows Phone 8 is now available for download. In order to boost sales Microsoft for a limited time is offering Office 365 bundled with a 12 months of Xbox Live Gold for free. This week new rumor emerged about Microsoft testing smartwatch prototypes with transparent aluminum and interchangeable bands. Learn everything there is to know about the new version of SkyDrive in Windows 8....

This week on PUREinfoTech: At its education focus event in New York City, Microsoft announced “Windows 10 S,” a new version of the OS specifically designed for students and teachers, and they also unveiled the Surface Laptop, a traditional clamshell laptop featuring Intel’s latest Core i5/i7 processors. No clip-in keyboard, kickstand, or hybrid that turn into a tablet — just a good old fashion laptop. Surface Laptop is available for pre-order now at the Microsoft Store....

This week in tech we covered one of the biggest announcements from Microsoft yet. They official gave us the first look for the next generation of their operating system code-name Windows 8 — real name to be announced… –. Microsoft demonstrated Windows 8 at D9 and at Computex 2011 conferences showing many new features and a totally redesigned look and feel (optimized for touch). If you didn’t have the time, take a look at the videos....

Tencent has pulled PUBG a popular Battleroyale game from its users in China after failing to get regulatory approval to generate revenue. Tencent has rather replaced PUBG with another game “Game for Peace” which has a more patriotic theme behind it. Tencent kept the development of Game for Peace under wraps until recently. After failing to get approval to generate revenue, Chinese gaming giants have taken the game down from China which had a lot of users from a particular country....

Android devices are highly customizable and feature-packed, but some of the best time-saving shortcuts in Android are hidden. Here’s how to find these features to take quick pictures, send texts, and make calls without fumbling through a list of apps. You’ll also find tips to make your Android experience efficient with Google Assistant and voice commands. Launch Your Camera When you only have a split second to launch your smartphone’s camera and capture a photo, there’s a shortcut that will quickly open the camera....

There are countless note-taking apps available, but most of them tie you down in one way or another. Many of them use their own format for notes, making it tough to move notes between apps. Even worse, you never know when they might disappear, taking your data with them. There’s a simple alternative to these apps: plain text. You can be pretty sure you’ll be able to open a plain text file in twenty years, which is something you can’t say about many file types....

Instagram isn’t just a place where you can see what your friends are eating for lunch anymore. Big brands and famous celebrities have infiltrated the popular photo and video sharing app, and they’ve been racking up followers by the millions. Some only post occasionally, while others basically use the app to document their entire lives — never going more than a couple of days without posting and often posting multiple times a day....

The Linux “top” command is often the go to tool for system administrators who need to check on the health of a system. It displays essential system information like CPU load, memory usage, swap usage and a list of the top processes on one convenient, live screen. While “top” is good, there are also some other system monitoring tools which can supplement it and provide extra information for those monitoring the health of a Linux system....

TOOGE Pet Camera Swivel camera with 80-degree vertical rotation and 350-degree horizontal rotation Infrared night vision Multiple setup options Budget-friendly Motion-based mobile notifications Low-quality video feed HapSee App doesn’t support Mac devices The TOOGE is a good pet camera, despite lackluster video quality. The budget-friendly price makes it an excellent alternative to more expensive competitors. Design Setup Process App Support Video Quality Price Competition Final Verdict Specs We purchased the TOOGE Pet Camera so our expert reviewer could thoroughly test and assess it....

Football in person is sweet, but sometimes football on TV is sweeter because you can flip from game to game. Whether you watch over-the-air TV, use a streaming device like a Chromecast or a Roku, or just enjoy catching a game on your iPad or smartphone while you’re out, the 2022 media market guarantees that you’ll always be able to enjoy your gridiron fix. NFL Sunday Ticket In the United States, DirecTV enjoys exclusive rights to sell NFL Sunday Ticket....

Ever wish you could control your iTunes from across the room? Sure, sometimes desktop and laptop computers come with a small little remote, but it can be a hard thing to keep track of. The things you always have handy are your devices running iOS, such as iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. These can control iTunes on a desktop computer or laptop with the Remote app. This is something I never even considered until my son came home from college....

Are you looking for Vampire Fighters Codes to get freebies like coins and boosts? In this game, you can fulfill your fantasy of becoming a vampire. Fight against other vampires, fly around the map by turning into a bat, and become the best vampire in the game. You will get new skills by eliminating other players and drinking their blood. But stay out of the sunlight or you will meet your demise....

Voice over IP, also known as VoIP or Internet Telephony, uses the internet to carry voice and video calls. Many people and companies worldwide enjoy its numerous benefits, among them free or very inexpensive calls. Some of these advantages cost users in other ways, however. Voice Quality Quality of Service (QoS) in VoIP varies according to technology. What we call good QoS for VoIP is strict. This can allow you to make a decent call without experiencing delays, weird sounds, noise, and echo....

Packet sniffers or protocol analyzers are tools used by network technicians to diagnose network-related problems. Hackers use packet sniffers for less noble purposes, such as spying on network user traffic and collecting passwords. Packet sniffers come in several forms. Some packet sniffers used by network technicians are single-purpose hardware solutions. In contrast, other packet sniffers are software applications that run on standard consumer-grade computers, using the network hardware provided on the host device to perform packet capture and injection tasks....

If you are a fan of the Diablo series then Immortal has a treat for you by the name of Treasure Goblins. Yes, these enemies which were there in Diablo 3 are back in this game. And their return makes sense, as this game is about the story between the second and third iterations of the series. So without wasting any time let’s quickly check what Treasure Goblins are in Diablo Immortal and how to use them....

A data source (sometimes called a data file) is a place from which data is obtained. The source can be any data in any file format, as long as the program understands how to read it. Important Data Source Facts A data source, also called a data file, is a collection of records that store data. A data source can be any document organized to provide structure for the receiving program to pull data....

IDE, an acronym for Integrated Drive Electronics, is a standard type of connection for storage devices in a computer. Generally, IDE refers to the types of cables and ports used to connect some hard drives and optical drives to each other and to the motherboard. An IDE cable, then, is a cable that meets this specification. Some popular IDE implementations that you might come across in computers are PATA (Parallel ATA), the older IDE standard, and SATA (Serial ATA), the newer one....

Traveling on the road is a very challenging activity since it involves your safety and the safety of other travelers. While driving on the road, you should be extremely careful since you are responsible for the lives of many people traveling with you or who might have taken the same path. You should always try to be constant and steady most of the time though you might be getting late for your work or any other thing....