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New site helps MacBook users make the switch to Surface Microsoft wasn’t so brazen as to post a website trying to lure MacBook users to its original Surface products, including the Surface RT, a particularly forgettable product. But with the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft has hit a groove and come out with a product that,…
North Korea’s Internet service resumes in spotty form Tension between the U.S. and North Korea could be growing if it’s discovered the former had anything to do with the latter’s recent Internet outage, which lasted nearly 10 hours. Links have since been restored though the reason for the outage is not yet known. U.S. officials…
Productive video editing in less than 60 minutes! We’re going to venture a guess that not all of Maximum PC’s readers will know the history behind Adobe Premiere, which was the first commonly available digital video editor when released in 1991. The best you could expect from it at the time was postage stamp–size videos…
Russell Wilson is no longer an Apple guy Microsoft’s deal with the National Football League to showcase Surface Pro 2 hardware during games got off to a rocky start when TV commentators and players alike repeatedly referred to the devices as iPads. That amounted to free advertising for the competition, for which Microsoft paid good…
Hackers may be targeting the Tor network The Tor Project put out a warning to its users that there may be an attempt to incapacitate its network through the seizure of specialized servers called directory authorities, which help Tor clients learn the list of relays that make up the Tor network. Project leader Roger Dingledine,…
Save 30 percent today on Amazon’s flagship tablet Kudos to you if you can make it to the end of the year without anything but a bare wallet and depleted PayPal account. Anything else is a tall order with all the holiday sales — it started with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, both of which…
External card helps to regulate voltages One reason to get into the hardcore overclocking scene is because you get to play with the latest gear. If you’re particularly good at your craft, companies will stumble over themselves trying to hook you up with high-end hardware as you chase world overclocking and benchmark records, as they…
Motherboard maker takes lightning storms seriously Here’s the thing, folks — if you want to protect your PC from lightning strikes and other electrical surges, plug it into a UPS backup power supply with built-in surge protection. For added caution, shut down and unplug your PC during lightning storms. And if you’re super paranoid about…
Top Deal: One way to cool your PC is to submerge it in oil — no joke! Of course, that’s a messy way to go about things, but if you’re still wanting to get away from air, you have options. Options like today’s top deal for a Corsair Hydro Series H60 High Performance Water/Liquid CPU…
Chides company and shareholders’ lawyers for ‘abdication of their responsibility’ We are sure Hewlett-Packard would like nothing more than to efface the memory of its disastrous 2011 acquisition of British software company Autonomy, but that is unlikely to happen anytime soon as right now it is struggling to get a federal judge to accept its…