Microsoft just launched its new search engine, Bing. I’m going to test it for a few days, because the opinions I have read in the Net are rather good.
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The new search engine from Microsoft, Bing, is available
Monday, June 1st, 2009PC games system requirements
Monday, December 1st, 2008I play games PC games very seldom, but I have to admit that I’m fascinated by gaming, and I’m very interested on everything related to gaming benchmarks, because most laptop graphics cards are not upgradeable and it is very important to compare the performance offered by a laptop with the performance demanded by games. I recently found a very useful tool: the Yougamers’ Game-o-meter.
This tool, that is donwloaded and executed from the browser, makes a fast assessment of your computer based on its Virtualmark score (based on 3DMark) and compares it to the one of the minimum and recommended components according to the game’s developer. It is not as informative as benchmarks for the same card, that show you the playable settings, but it is much better that a comparison with older graphics cards: is my Radeon HD 3450 faster or slower than a GeForce 6800 GT? Humm…
It looks like my PC is borderline to run Fallout 3…
The list of games is not huge, but it does include the most popular games. In my opinion, it is very useful.
Adobe Photoshop Express: online apps keep spreading
Friday, November 9th, 2007That Adobe is developing an online version of Photoshop is old news, but News.com tells us about some features of this software, that has been shown in the 6sight digital imaging conference.
While it’s still a pre-beta version (Adobe has committed to release the beta later this year), it is now clear that Photoshop Express is much less powerful than the local versions, and seems to be aimed to provide additional photo editing features to several online photo hosting services. But it’s going to be free.
The final version of Photoshop Express is expected to be released in 2008.
Think about it: the first time I heard about “software as a service” and it being run through Internet, I thought that it was a concept without future. But almost 10 years have past, and Internet has changed a lot, and now we can be online everywhere, at any time. E-mail clients did seem so much better than webmail… But the last time I sent an e-mail in Thunderbird was many months ago. Now, I think it’s possible that, in a future, most of our programs are online apps, but the world still has to change a lot.
