Evolution of computing devices

The Scientific American India issue of December 2009 had an interesting article titled Decoding an Ancient Computer (preview it here). 

It spoke about an underwater discovery of a ship wreck which included, besides glassware, pottery & jewelry, a fragile device which later turned out to have within its innards gear wheels with teeth.

Virtual Private Network providers

A Virtual Private Network, known in short as VPN, enables you to use another network in e-space. It allows you to access content from a site which is banned in the region where you stay. This access can be done in a secure manner & will hide your location when you access the content of that site. Of course, your VPN provider could still block access to a site which is considered as dangerous.

How to record audio and video on a Skype call

To record the audio-video aspects of your conversation via Skype, you need to install EVAER. This is ‘Excellent Video and Audio Recorder’. It is a free software which is available only for Windows. You can record for free the first 5 minutes of audio as well as video calls. For calls longer than 5 minutes, you will need to register & pay $19.95.

Microsoft News Bento App

Microsoft's news app, called News Bento, is a single news consolidated app for Windows 8 for which it is free. It provides great news photo coverage and is fully interactive by all forms: whether by touch or with a mouse or with a keyboard. Presently this app is available in the English language (US English).

2013 Apple iPhone 5S or Apple iPhone 6: what's in a name?

When Apple Inc. designs something, everybody goes crazy.There are the buyers who line up overnight in serpentine queues to be the first to buy it off the shelf. There are the competitors who want to create something equally good without getting sued over patent rights. There are the  critics who want to dissect it every which way. Finally there are bloggers like me who want to let the whole world know about its launch & features. Well, as yet nobody is really sure when the next version of the iconic iPhone will be launched. However, there is already lots of buzz about it.

Compare top 5 best selling PC Tablets

The PC tablet market is really heated up right now, what with some of the best innovative products competing for the buyer’s attention. The Google Nexus 7 especially has made a stunning entry with an extremely competitive price, creating excitement for those who were up to now just merely dreaming of owning a top-notch Android computing device.

Should you wait to buy the Microsoft Surface?

Microsoft recently announced its entry into the contemporary computing devices world with the Surface Tablet. In fact, two Surface tablets: one (Surface) is meant for ordinary folks who do the usual stuff on a tablet, another (the Surface Pro) for those who do really serious business stuff. Quite obviously, what Microsoft is trying to achieve is not just establish itself as a brand to reckon with in the tablet market but to achieve this by toppling Apple from its perch. To be more precise, to give hot competition to the Apple iPad.