by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, ENTERTIANMENT, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The iPhone and iPad are fantastic gaming devices, but unfortunately a lot of games still try to emulate gamepads with onscreen buttons on the touch screen and it just doesn’t work that well. Thankfully, a jailbreak app called Blutrol lets you turn a handful of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the take-note-managers dept. The number of IT professionals considering leaving their job due to workplace stress has jumped from 69% last year to 73%. One-third of those surveyed cited dealing with managers as their most stressful job requirement, particularly...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
Expion wins our test of eight enterprise-grade social media monitoring tools As businesses make more use of social networks, the number of engagement, analysis and monitoring tools has exploded. Enterprises are trying to understand their return on social media...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the cool-sunglasses dept. Yesterday, Sony gave a presentation explaining a bit about the new PS4 hardware, the development environment (Windows 7 based IDE), and the changes to the Dual Shock controller. From the article: “The system is also set up to run...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
An early build of Microsoft’s big Windows 8 update has hit the web After an abundance of rumors, whispers, and slip-ups in job postings, we now have more concrete evidence of Microsoft’s secretive Windows Blue operating system: An honest-to-goodness leak...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the what’s-to-blame dept. Despite the headlines, the big denial of service attack may not have slowed the Internet after all. The argument against the original claim include the fact that reports of Internet users seeing slowdowns came not from service...