Get touchy-feely with Office today Are you rocking a copy of the Windows 10 Technical Preview? If so, you can kick the tires on three of Microsoft’s Universal Office apps — Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. All three are immediately available to download in the new Windows Store beta, which you can gain access to if…
A big win for net neutrality advocates The war over net neutrality isn’t over, but it did just swing somewhat in favor of those who support a level playing field, one that’s devoid of paid fast lanes. Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), confirmed today that he wants to reclassify and regulate…
A mechanical plank with an aluminum faceplate Over the past few years, mechanical keyboards have surged in popularity, expanding a category that was once defined by just a handful of models to one that’s beginning to overflow with options. And we’re not complaining. An interesting side effect of this growing popularity is a desire by…
A number nerd’s wet storage dream If you’re a regular reader of Maximum PC, then a name you’re likely to remember is Backblaze, a cloud-based backup firm that routinely shares its data about hard drive failures and various operations. The level of openness is pretty rare, as not too many companies offer the same level…
Hey everyone! It’s so awesome to be able to share a bit of the background story behind Shiftlings with you, because, yeah, the game actually has one! The prototype for Shiftlings was born during a Game Jam competition here in Norway. Due to holiday, vacation and family (ahem…) interference, we only had five days instead…
G.Skill Ripjaws 4 memory kit hits 4355MHz You know that friend of yours that can’t help but to go over the speed limit at every opportunity? That’s G.Skill, a memory maker that’s heavily involved in the overclocking scene, and with DDR4 RAM being relatively new, there’s plenty of uncharted memory frequency territory to explore. A…
Small Radios Big Televisions is a game I’ve been working on since last summer. It’s built out of my love for games, analog mechanicals, and music. I’m also proud to tell you that it will be coming to PS4. The game is about exploration, finding old data cassettes strewn through the insides of old factories,…
Reinventing Wi-Fi If nobody ever bothered to reinvent he wheel, we’d all be riding around on four semi-circular stones with uneven surfaces and poor braking performance. Keeping that in mind, we won’t necessarily dismiss a startup’s attempt to reinvent Wi-Fi as you know it. In short, startup Eero wants to blanket your home in fast,…
Another bottleneck bites the dust Out with the old and in with the new, or in this case, MSI is anxious to bid a fond farewell to the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) and get cooking with Non-Volatile Media Express (NVMe). To get the party started, MSI issued a round of BIOS updates for a…
Top Deal: Not yet ready to invest in a 4K or 5K panel? Holding out for when 8K panels become mainstream? No problem, though that 15-year-old CRT is a bit of an eyesore, don’t you think? While you wait for whatever super-duper-ultra-high resolution monitor it is you’re after, a nice Full HD 1080p can the…