1byone enters the gaming headphone fray with an impressive sounding pair of virtual 7.1 surround headphones.
If you’ve left your Mac laying around for a very long time or if you bought a used one, the system date may be out of whack. Often times the system date on neglected Macs gets reset to the year 2001 which prevents you from reinstalling OS X. More often than not you’ll get an … Read more
Mail clients are a difficult thing for people to decide on. They all have features you love and features you wish they had. Some people are very satisfied with Gmail while others prefer a desktop client like Apple Mail. Others want a mixture of both worlds with some added functionality. That’s where Polymail comes in. … Read more
The hit survival crafting game 7 Days To Die for consoles now has a release date and will arrive on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on June 28th. The game will be published by Telltale Publishing, in conjunction with The Fun Pimps, a Dallas based independent developer. Set in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the … Read more
Google Chromebooks have overtaken Apple laptops in sales selling over 2 million while Apple fell behind selling 1.76 million Mac laptops. It is important to note that these numbers are a combination of hardware manufactures like Lenovo, HP and Dell. Google also makes its own higher end Chromebook Pixel which is included in these sales … Read more
Telltale Publishing has announced that they’ll be bringing the survival-horror crafting game 7 Days To Die in collaboration with the developer, The Fun Pimps, to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this June. Currently available on Steam for $24.99, the game has a 9/10 rating from nearly 30,000 reviews. 7 Days To Die is set in … Read more
Some days we have issues with the computers, PCs, or phones we use and unfortunately have to call that manufacturer’s tech support to get any kind of assistance. The wait time can feel like ages before you finally get a human, and if you do end up getting someone, they’ll ask you to go through … Read more
Apple has always been ahead of the curve by removing certain features it deems irrelevant. It did this with the floppy disk way back when and more recently, the company has done away with the Ethernet port on the newer MacBooks. Unfortunately, a recent update pushed by the company broke the Ethernet functionality on some … Read more
All eyes are on Apple to see what they will announce at their keynote some time in March — March 15th from what the rumor mill is saying, as there will be a few new devices being announced such as a new iPhone reportedly dubbed iPhone 5se, supposedly iPhone 6 specs inside an iPhone 5s … Read more
After being released in June as part of Xbox One’s new Xbox Game Preview program, Frontier has released the massively multiplayer space epic Elite Dangerous (check out our First Impressions) for the console. Elite Dangerous spans over 400 billion stars of the Milky Way galaxy, all recreated to their full galactic proportions in an evolving player-driven story and multiplayer experience. Starting … Read more
Google Hangouts has become my preferred method of communication with online friends, family and Techaeris related discussion. If you’re a Chrome user on Mac it’s pretty easy to use the Chrome extension for Hangouts to have a separate place for Hangouts to exist on your desktop. For Safari users it’s not that simple.I prefer to … Read more
Earlier last week we announced that Boot Camp 6 was available to Mac users to install Windows 10 on their precious Apple hardware. But many of you expressed concern and nervousness about installing Windows 10 on Mac. Our YouTube friend Damir Franc read our article and that give him the push to give Boot Camp … Read more
Windows 10 on Mac is now here with Apple updating its Boot Camp software to Boot Camp version 6. Boot Camp has been around for a long while now and it allows Mac users to run Windows on their computers without having to buy a PC. Boot Camp runs in a virtual window, which emulates … Read more
With mobile apps and tools, gone are the days of having to scan page after page manually through a cumbersome scanner for optical character recognition (OCR) and translation. While there are quite a few apps that will allow you to take a picture of a block of text and convert it via OCR technology into … Read more
Microsoft Office is so ingrained in the way we work today. It has made its presence in the mobile market, with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote applications for iOS as well as Android. Today Microsoft released a free preview of Microsoft Office for Mac. The preview can be downloaded from the Microsoft Office Mac Preview … Read more
When Rebel Galaxy was announced back in October, it was announced for Steam and the PlayStation 4. Developer Double Damage Games has upped the ante and announced that their “swashbuckling space adventure” will also launch on the Xbox One and Mac systems. Travis Baldree, Co-Founder of Double Damage Games, explained why the Xbox One and Mac weren’t … Read more
Research site Palo Alto Networks published information about an iOS malware family they are dubbing WireLurker. According to their research, the malware has been targeting Mac OS and iOS systems for at least the past six months through the Maiyadi App Store, a third-party app store in China. Claud Xiao of Palo Alto Networks posts … Read more
RealPlayer Cloud, RealNetworks cloud video sharing app, was launched in September 2013. The service allows users to watch, save, and share videos across devices and operating systems. As video streaming becomes more and more popular, companies are trying to find ways to entice users to use their service. RealPlayer Cloud will be offering 365GB of … Read more
Steve Jobs is both hated and loved, so it goes with people of fame or popular name. For those who loved Steve Jobs, his work, his life and his words, you can now find one of his most famous speeches hidden inside of your Macintosh computer. OSX Daily ran across it and it’s pretty darned … Read more
Welcome to the eighth installment of Tech History Thursday! If you’re keeping up to date with tech news by reading Techaeris, you’re just as interested in the origins of our high-tech world as we are. This weekly snapshot will give you a look at what happened throughout history as it relates to tech. Keep reading for … Read more
The original creators behind Night Trap, a 1992 full motion video game (FMV) released for the SEGA CD, are attempting a remake of the classic game via Kickstarter titled Night Trap ReVamped. Co-creators James Riley and Rob Fulop stated in a Kickstarter video that their goal is to release the game as it was originally intended, … Read more
If you’re like me you use a Mac at home and Windows at work, and for most of us that can’t be helped, we use what our employer gives us to use and we like it! But that doesn’t mean you’re at the mercy of the PC keyboard. It can be a challenge moving from … Read more
Redmond Pie is reporting that Twitter user @FredericJacobs found an unannounced feature in iOS8 that randomizes your MAC address when scanning for Wi-Fi networks. His Tweet is below.
Biggest Developer Release Ever Includes Extensibility Features, HealthKit, HomeKit & Swift SAN FRANCISCO―June 2, 2014―Apple® today released its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new APIs, giving developers the ability to create amazing new apps like never before. iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with … Read more
When Facebook acquired popular messaging platform WhatsApp on February 19, 2014, for US$19 billion in shares, stock, and cash, two things happened: The Internet went crazy trying to figure out Facebook’s angle on the purchase, and millions of users began flocking to Telegram.
Founded in 2013 by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, Telegram is a free, open source messaging app that focuses on maintaining maximum security for its users. It is available on both Android and iOS officially and Windows Phone, Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX unofficially for free; indeed, the company makes it plain on their website that “Telegram is free forever.
One of my passions in life has always been music. I grew up around a family of musicians…uncles, aunts, cousins, dad, and my brothers were all musicians. So, naturally, I followed that path. I started playing drums when I was seven years old and graduated when I was 11 to the king-of-the-hill (in my eyes), the guitar. If you would have told me twenty-eight years ago that I would be playing my guitar through a small TV-like device that emulated the sounds of The Eagles, Pink Floyd, and Aerosmith, I would have called you insane.
By now we all know that Apple is celebrating their 30th anniversary and the celebration just keeps going. This morning they released a video that they shot entirely on iPhones and edited entirely on Macs. Here’s a bit of what their celebration campaign had to say. On January 24, 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh. And … Read more
Well this is something I sure would have loved to have seen at CES 2014. But with so much floor space it is impossible to see it all. The Kanex Multi-Sync Keyboard is a full sized Bluetooth Keyboard that allows you to connect to your iPhone, iPad and Mac all at once. Just use the … Read more