Splatter your digital fluid all OVER than screen
Google has mashed the Processing graphics language into its Cast software, letting visual artists and others with a bent for graphics point their creations at the nearest big-screen TV.…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Run Windows 10 on your existing PC you say, Microsoft? Hmmm.
Believe it or not, torching existing stock and starting over may work out cheaper
Throughout my career I have seen many Windows releases with minimum requirements that were a little bit deceiving. Sure, the machines would boot, but you would sometimes have enough time to brew a fresh pot of coffee before the computer was in a usable state.…
Mozilla’s ‘Great or Dead’ philosophy may save bloated blimp Firefox
Moz shop’s rebuild-the-fox plan begins to take shape
For some time now Firefox, the once mighty web browser, has been bleeding market share and – perhaps more importantly – developer mind share.…
Security fears drive Apple HomeKit delays, industry tells El Reg
iGiant expands control-freak tendencies into smarthomes, forcing hardware redesigns
Wondering where all the Apple HomeKit products are? Well, here’s an explanation: Apple is forcing internet-of-things companies to fit Apple-certified chips and firmware in their gadgets if they are to work with the HomeKit platform.…
Q. Why did Nintendo force GitHub to take down an emulator? A. It was stuffed with ROMs
Shocker: Games company not so big on piracy
Nintendo has demanded GitHub take down a JavaScript-powered Game Boy Advance emulator. An outrage against perfectly legal software? No. The emulator was apparently bundled with more than three dozen copies of copyright-protected game titles.…
Linux Foundation serves up a tasty dish of BUGS
Lots of important tools get no developer love, which makes Linux a bit more risky
The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative has completed its first-pass survey of the Linux toolset, and is highlighting which tools are most at risk.…
DEATH TO FLASH says Facebook security chief
Flash is bad, but not so bad devs will bother with HTML5, so send in the killbits
Newly-minted Facebook security chief Alex Stamos has called for Adobe Flash to be taken out behind the shed by a shotgun-wielding world.…
HP won’t ship PCs with Windows 10 preinstalled until mid-August
Better plan on downloading it … or just skip it
The big picture of how Microsoft plans to debut Windows 10 for its customers remains murky, but more details are starting to emerge, courtesy of the software giant’s hardware partners.…
Police, firefighters, ambulances, hospitals: 20 per cent still rely on Win Server 2003
End of support today. Try not to get ill
Exclusive One in every five public-sector health and emergency services organisations in the UK will still be running Windows Server 2003 after Microsoft ends extended support today.…
Microsoft suspends Windows 10 new-build downloads ahead of launch
Temporary measure to ‘stress and validate’ delivery system
Microsoft’s closed the tap on fresh builds of Windows 10 in preparation for final launch.…