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Skyrim PC Interface Gets Drastically Improved With New Mod

Another day, another brilliant mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as a clever user has managed to completely overhaul the interface of the massive role playing game made by Bethesda.While Skyrim’s user interface works pretty well with console controllers, it’s a clunky mess to operate on the PC, with a ...

22 December 2011
10:21 GMT

How to Block Ads in the New Xbox 360 Dashboard

Microsoft has just released a brand new dashboard update for its Xbox 360 console and, while it certainly brings an interface reminiscent of Windows Phone 7 or Windows 8, it has plenty of ads that some users find annoying.Thankfully, a few clever owners have found a couple of workarounds that prevent the console from...

9 December 2011
08:01 GMT

New Xbox 360 Dashboard Goes Live on December 6

According to a brand new report, Microsoft is expected to finally deploy the new dashboard update for its Xbox 360 console on December 6.Microsoft presented the upgraded user interface for its Xbox 360 back at E3 2011 earlier this year and, since then, has confirmed that quite a lot of things will be packed alongside...

22 November 2011
05:18 GMT

AIS Develops 12.1 and 15-Inch Operator Interface Touchscreens

AIS is here to offer followers of the mass media something to look at besides the myriad of consumer products constantly streaming forth, namely a pair of interface touch panels. If anything can be said about touchscreens, it is that they have enabled a far higher level of interactivity between man and machine. ...

10 October 2011
08:10 GMT

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Story Details Revealed

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is the most high profile video game that will be launched for the Nintendo Wii home console during this fall and a title that the publisher hopes will further boost the fortunes of the lately much troubled platform.The first few hours of the game will include a section which hints a...

30 September 2011
05:31 GMT

Street Fighter II Is the Ideal Fighting Game

Street Fighter is one of the most successful franchises in the world of video gaming and at least one of the producers working on the game believes that this is mainly because the team working on it at Capcom has always stuck by a set of fundamental concepts established early in the series.Speaking to Gamasutra as pa...

6 September 2011
13:51 GMT

New PlayStation Store Interface Coming Soon

Sony is reported to be preparing a brand new user interface for its PlayStation Store, which should make the online marketplace more user friendly and simpler to navigate by all sorts of gamers. Sony was recently forced to rebuild its PlayStation Network online service, together with the PlayStation Store, in orde...

6 July 2011
15:51 GMT

Windows Phone Mango Brings Music + Videos Hub UI Changes

Windows Phone Mango, the next flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system, is expected to bring into the mix a wide range of changes, including some related to the Music + Videos Hub. The multimedia capabilities of future Windows Phone devices would be affected too, with the addition of on-phone podcasts and ...

6 June 2011
09:51 GMT

New Nokia Concept Device Sports Futuristic 3D UI Elements

3D-capable smartphones are new to the market, but they are already there, and more and more mobile phone makers are expected to bring to shelves their own capable of delivering 3D content, with Nokia being one of them. The company hasn't yet confirmed any plans on this direction, but that doesn't meant tha...

18 May 2011
15:41 GMT

SourceForge Revamps Interface, Gets on the HTML5 & CSS3 Bandwagon

SourceForge is the latest big name to adopt and use HTML5 and CSS3 for their user interface. Even if the official HTML5 and CSS3 standards have not been completed, large websites are making the crucial step toward this new technology.Developers and users alike have been pleasantly surprised on February 9th 2011 when ...

10 February 2011
09:28 GMT

NEC's LSI Technology Three Times Faster than USB 3.0

With the appearance of high-definition (HD) TV and 3D video content, there has been a growth in the volume of data being processed for personal use. As such, greater demand has arisen for fast transmission of data between various equipments. NEC Corporation (NEC) and NEC Electronics Corporation (NECEL) have revealed ...

18 February 2010
03:17 GMT

Justin.TV Simplifies the Broadcasting Process to Three Easy Steps

The broadcasting process has just gotten ridiculously simple on Justin.TV. The new method walks users through an easy and intuitive three-step interface, during which they register (login) on Justin.Tv, import friends (optional) and start broadcasting from their local video device.During the last weeks, users and adm...

27 January 2010
10:16 GMT

Computers Need More Advanced Interaction, NVIDIA Says

All aspects of computing have been evolving and today's machines completely dwarf those that were considered top-end a few years ago. Central processors are reaching new computing heights, while becoming increasingly efficient and graphics have reached a stage where they can almost perfectly mimic real life. Hav...

16 January 2010
03:37 GMT

Gigabyte Creates Microsite Dedicated to USB 3.0

Although there has been much talk about the USB 3.0 technology and its significant advantages over previous versions, many end-users are likely still in the dark as to their exact options when trying to acquire a product using such a connection. To illuminate those interested in such things with the answers to how an...

23 December 2009
09:19 GMT

The App Store Has Been Redesigned

In what is a very welcome change to the iTunes App Store, Apple has modified the layout of its online distribution system for iPhone and iPod touch applications. Changes include at-a-glance descriptions (with the option to see the full scoop as well), new pop-up menus, a more relevant display of example-screenshots, ...

14 December 2009
03:05 GMT

PCI Express 3.0 Delayed to 2010, Supporting Products Coming in 2011

The PCI Special Interest Group (SIG) has recently announced that the release of the specifications for the PCI Express 3.0 interface will be delayed until the second quarter of 2010. The delay is reportedly related to issues that have been encountered with enabling backward compatibility on the new interface. PCI Exp...

21 August 2009
09:18 GMT

Fully Customize Your Mac

By default, Mac OS X has an interface that will always offer its users very high degrees of usability and eye candy. Although it is already a standard that users of other OSes still dream of, Mac users will always try to give it a little more bang. If you do not think that the OS X GUI is one of the best-looking OS...

3 April 2009
12:01 GMT

Microsoft Says New Xbox Experience Has Reinvented the 360

The Xbox 360 is a console that, during the last months, has really gained a massive amount of popularity. This is largely due to the fact that it has seen a lot of exclusive games being launched for it, like Gears of War 2 or Fable II, but most of all thanks to the price cut it has received before fall, which made it...

19 January 2009
11:01 GMT

Google Changes the User Interface for Its Reader

The new Google Reader, although pretty much the same as before on the inside, received a few updates mostly in matters regarding its look and function reorganizing. The old colors are gone, as are the shadows on the menus, which made for a rougher navigation. Now, everything is squared out, and the whole thing moves ...

5 December 2008
09:30 GMT

Customize Your Dock and the Leopard Interface

Are you already tired of the Leopard look and feel? There are many software solutions available that allow you to change the dock style and theme, but the main disadvantage they present is that you usually have to pay in order to use them. SuperDocker, developed by Michael Aubigny, is a very useful software applicati...

31 July 2008
12:34 GMT

The Seven Most Important Leopard Interface Tweaks

Do you remember the day when you first got to play with Apple's new cat? The day when you all went "aaaawww!" after clicking on a stack or using the 3D dock? I certainly do and I have to say that, albeit enjoying most of the changes Apple has introduced in Leopard, like many other people that are using a Mac, I ...

30 June 2008
05:47 GMT

AGP Almost at the End of the Road

The accelerated graphics port, better known as AGP, is slowly but surely seeing the last days of its existence. For those who are not in the know, the AGP is a hardware standard that has been used as the primary video graphics cards interface, since 1997 (when it was created and released by Intel) until 2004. Year 20...

5 June 2008
04:39 GMT

Guess What: Windows Can Also Look Great, Too!

Some people say that Windows XP doesn't look too great and use all kinds of applications to change the way it does, customizing the window interface, the interface, the start menu or any other element of the operating system. In an article published a few weeks ago, Marius Nestor, our Linux Editor, made Ubuntu l...

28 May 2008
10:56 GMT

Google Gets Ready to Launch Gmail Themes

The Mountain View-based company may prepare a new Gmail feature requested by numerous users but there's no official confirmation on this. The rumor was launched by Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped who wrote that "a source is telling me that Gmail will get themes - custom layouts to personalize Google's...

20 May 2008
05:40 GMT

Yahoo Messenger to Allow Users to Design Their Own Themes

Yahoo Messenger for Mac has just received a brand new feature which allows its users to simplify the look of the message windows by applying a new message format. Rumors concerning such a feature were released a long time ago and were talking about a potential integration of new message formats into the main version ...

7 May 2008
02:44 GMT

YouTube Debuts New Functions, Users Disappointed with Them

A few weeks ago, Google's video sharing service YouTube presented a beta version of the Inbox and the My Contacts sections, which were supposed to bring improved functionality to all its users. Yesterday, the YouTube Team proudly announced that these features had grown up and are now stepping into the battle as ...

5 May 2008
02:52 GMT

Google's Users: the Latest Update "Stinks"!

Yesterday, the Mountain View-based company Google rolled out what was supposed to be one of the most important Google Finance updates but, unfortunately for the search giant, consumers had quite an unexpected reaction following this improvement. Google proudly announced on the official Google Finance Blog that the se...

25 April 2008
01:59 GMT

YouTube Debuts Beta Interface

YouTube has just rolled out a couple of beta interfaces for three of its functions, all the new appearances being supposed to provide better functionality and faster loading times. The lucky features which have received it are inbox, My Contacts and My Videos, sections which now provide a series of new functions to t...

21 April 2008
10:33 GMT

YouTube Updates Interface

YouTube has just made a new update to its interface, implementing a few minor changes to the clip page appearance. Although the online video sharing service didn't make any official announcement, users who accessed YouTube today were able to see the new interface which seems to be a permanent update since it...

10 April 2008
10:29 GMT

Austrian Chemist Finds Application for Infrared Technique in Nanotechnology

The study conducted by Thomas Lummerstorfer represents a review of one of his earlier papers into the study of solid-solid interfaces with the help of infrared spectroscopy techniques, which could not be tested experimentally until now. He previously predicted that with the help of a sandwich-like optical configurati...

13 February 2008
06:57 GMT

Google Improves Apple's iPhone

Yes, I know, when you see this kind of title you must think something fishy's going on. I mean, why would Google make an improvement for the upcoming Google phone direct competitor? Well, first of all, there's nothing fishy going on. And second, Google does indeed improve the iPhone, not literally, but with...

5 December 2007
07:03 GMT

Apple Multi-Touch Interface Patent - Second Edition

We have all seen what the iPhone multi-touch interface is capable of and now the time has come to see this technology applied on a larger scale. That is if we are to believe and credit Apple with the ability to implement a patent discovered by pcjoint.com on the US Patent and Trademark Office's website.As the pa...

28 November 2007
17:27 GMT

ZenZui Renamed Zumobi for December Beta

The award-winning Zooming User Interface and mobile platform business, ZenZui will be called from now on Zumobi. The change looks to make the software even more appealing now that it prepares for going beta this December. Microsoft's ZenZui interface has been presented at this year's CTIA. Zumobi takes one ...

14 November 2007
09:57 GMT

Simple Tricks to Get the Old Gmail Back

A few days ago, the Mountain View company rolled out some new features of Gmail which practically represented a new version of the mail technology. But there are several reasons for using the old Gmail and avoiding migrating to the new version of the mail service. For example, you could choose to use the previous ver...

5 November 2007
03:57 GMT

Users About YouTube's New Interface: 'It Looks Like Crap!'

Following the recent preview of the new YouTube interface rolled out by the video sharing service, the fans of the product sent out some interesting feedback messages which underlined the good and the bad parts of the new feature. Certainly, YouTube read all these comments and today it officially rolled out a new pre...

2 November 2007
04:04 GMT

YouTube's Buggy New Interface

Following the recent improvements rolled out for the YouTube video watch page, the online video sharing service is now working on a brand new interface for the entire website. Yesterday, the YouTube Team presented a preview page of the new appearance, revealing several elements which might appear in the final version...

26 October 2007
05:11 GMT

YouTube Gets Major Facelift

Do you remember the beta YouTube interface released in June which brought several new attractive elements for the fans of the online video sharing service? The beta appearance came with lots of interface and functionality improvements, being accessible through a 'Try the Beta interface'-like button. Today, ...

24 October 2007
04:15 GMT

New YouTube Player Interface. Test or Final Version?

YouTube quietly introduced a new interface for the embeddable videos published on its page which is pretty different from the one used before. As you can see in the photo attached to the article, the embedded videos are now silver with bigger icons and a time counter which shows the length of the video as well as the...

19 October 2007
03:40 GMT

Still Thinking Google Is The Best Search Engine? Read This!

This time it's serious. Google is now challenged by the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo with pretty amazing features which make its search engine extremely powerful. But let me describe the impressive update package rolled out by Yahoo today. First of all, Yahoo officially released the suggestions feature, codename ...

2 October 2007
04:36 GMT

Connect Your Computer to a Wireless Network, The D-Link Way

As the wireless approach to networking is becoming more and more popular and widely used, a number of companies are trying to capitalize on this trend with products aimed at providing wireless capabilities to desktop and mobile computer systems. While most modern day notebooks and laptops are coming with integrated w...

27 September 2007
04:45 GMT

Google Changes Its Webpage's Design. Once Again!

Although the Mountain View company recently updated the interface of its official website, it seems like Google is now interested in reverting the appearance to the old design used before. Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped reports that some of the users are now seeing the old interface of the search engine inst...

28 August 2007
04:07 GMT

Samsung's New 30 Inch LCD

At the second plugtest organized by the Video Electronics Standards Association, VESA for short, for the new DisplayPort version 1.1 which tested the interoperability of hardware parts made by different manufacturers, among the companies that presented product featuring the new interface there was also Samsung.Just l...

15 August 2007
11:23 GMT

Google Cooks Interface Update

Back in 2005, when the Mountain View company released Google Reader, the web-based feed reader came with a simple interface that remained active until now. However, things are going to change soon, as the search giant is now informing the users that the original interface of Google Reader will be soon retired and you...

13 August 2007
09:56 GMT

Hidden Trick to Modify the YouTube Player Interface

Well, it's not quite a hidden trick since it is published on the official page of YouTube but only a few Internet users heard about it. If you didn't know, you can customize the appearance of a YouTube clip straight from an official page hosted by the famous online video platform. Basically, you can choose ...

20 July 2007
06:22 GMT

Google's Office Gets Brand New Facelift

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is the web-based service that is described as the Microsoft Office rival that will represent the main solution included in the Google suite. Because it is so important, the Google employees avoid neglecting the product and are trying to improve it periodically to make it more powerful. The ...

28 June 2007
03:24 GMT

Image Version of Google News Rolled Out

A new version of the well-known news service Google News is now available to some of the users but there is no official announcement yet. The new version is entirely based on images and shows a thumbnail of a headline while an introductory text is displayed in the right part of the screen. Once you move your mouse cu...

26 June 2007
08:40 GMT

Test The YouTube Hidden Interface Now!

Following the recent improvements released by the online video sharing service YouTube for the interface of the video player, the parent company Google is now preparing a brand new appearance for the official page of the product. As blogger Ionut Alex reported, the new layout is available using a simple trick that re...

14 June 2007
09:31 GMT

Tips to Configure Your Embedded YouTube Clips

Last week, the online video sharing service YouTube rolled out a new interface for the embedded clips that adds more functionality to the videos. For example, you're now able to view the related clips straight into the embedded video without having to visit the official YouTube page. In addition, the movie is no...

11 June 2007
09:56 GMT

YouTube's New Interface Finally Rolled Out!

YouTube debuted a major update today, improving the interface of the video player with related links placed straight inside the embedded clip. This new appearance was discovered last week when some of the YouTube appeared in several embedded clips published on the Internet. Today, the YouTube representatives announce...

7 June 2007
03:56 GMT

Simple Trick to Change Your Gmail Skin!

Gmail is the mail solution provided by the Mountain View company that is currently available as a free public beta for all the Internet users. Since April 2004, when the product was released as a private beta version, Gmail received several major improvements such as the huge storage size or the recently introduced f...

1 June 2007
16:46 GMT


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