While Adobe Flash’s domination has been waning over the past couple of months, it’s still a very popular technology for displaying full-screen, high definition (HD), video streams, games, and effect-heavy websites. Despite this, Flash has gained a reputation for being a very CPU-heavy technology that slows down PCs and decreases desktop battery life. However, Adobe [...]
Since it was first invented by Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web (not to be confused with the Internet) has come a long way. Today websites provide users with a more immersive experience, increased interactivity, complex designs as well as real-time collaboration and community tools, mostly free of cost. Obviously, the technologies used to achieve [...]
How would you like to have a taste of the future today? In this week’s blog post, we’ll show you a very unique way to transform your entire Windows desktop into the more modern and intuitive Metro interface, which is already being used with Windows Phone 7 and will likely be a part of 2012′s [...]
Looking ahead to what the New Year will bring, we here at TuneUp are excited to see the launch of the new Internet Explorer (IE9), as well as Microsoft Office 2010, which should be released sometime in June. With its new cloud-based functionality and added features, we’re anxious to see how Office 2010 rivals other [...]
Here we go again, it’s Day 3 and it looks like a much quieter day. Today I‘m skipping sessions in order to walk around the PDC 2009 Expo Hall a little bit, where Microsoft and its Partners show the latest and greatest in software and hardware technology. So don’t expect a technical deep-dive, but rather [...]
Welcome back! Day 2 of Microsoft’s PDC 2009 has begun! Today the event kicked off with a keynote session by a very special guest, Steven Sinosky, president of the Windows and Windows Live divisions. Steven hit the stage and immediately started sharing details on what the Windows 7 development experience was like and what Microsoft [...]
