Dr. Bill.TV #382 – Audio – “The Better Late Than Never Edition!”

A late show, but, May the Forth be with you! A $9 computer rivals Raspberry Pi. Five year old kid does Bruce Lee! Melodysheep’s tribute to Bruce Lee. Windows 10, the final version? GSotW: Driver Toolkit, more information on the Edge Browser released.

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Driver Toolkit 8


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More Info on the New Edge Browser Released!

It will be SO good to get rid of Internet Explorer!

All about Edge: Extensions, high performance asm.js, and no more ActiveX

Ars Technica – By: Peter Bright – “Microsoft has spent the past few days talking about the new browser formerly known as Project Spartan: what it will do, what it won’t do, and what it won’t do yet but will do soon.

We already knew that Microsoft Edge would remove much of the legacy technology that’s found in Internet Explorer. Microsoft has given perhaps the fullest rundown of what’s not in Edge this week. The two traditional ways of extending Internet Explorer, ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects, are both gone. This means no plugins, no toolbars, no Java, no Silverlight. It doesn’t, however, mean no Flash; that’s a built-in capability. PDF rendering is also built-in.

In their place are Chrome-like extensions built in HTML and JavaScript. However, these aren’t coming immediately. Although Microsoft has demonstrated the popular Reddit Enhancement Suite running in Edge with (the company says) minimal changes from its Chrome version, the initial release of Edge won’t support these extensions. There’s no specific timeline on when they’ll be added.

The new extensibility support will be quite broad. Internet Explorer currently has lots of extension points for developers; they can add, for example, custom download managers, custom protocol handlers, context menu entries, sidebars, and security filters. All of these and more will be handled by the new extensibility system when it’s available.

The company has also said that it has a ‘long-term goal’ of bringing extension support to its mobile browser, though initial support will be for PC only. More specifically, it will be for Windows 10 only. There are ‘no plans’ to make the browser (or its core engine) open source, and doing so would apparently come at ‘massive cost.’

Unlike Internet Explorer, Edge won’t try to mimic older browsers in order to work around page bugs and glitches. This means that document modes and layout quirks are both gone. Edge will always be at the cutting edge, offering Microsoft’s newest take on Web standards. This commitment to standards also means that various non-standard technologies are being removed: Edge won’t support VML vector graphics, VBScript scripts, DirectX filters and transitions, or non-standard scripting techniques for responding to events or accessing CSS styling.

In Edge, Microsoft is also committing to not adding new proprietary stuff in the future. Significantly, this means that it’s no longer going to use the vendor prefix system for providing early access to features that are still experimental or in the process of being standardized. Instead, developers will have to enable experimental features using configuration flags. Microsoft has also proposed development of a system in which browser developers could, in a limited way, enable trial usage of experimental features so that new capabilities can be tested ‘in the wild,’ but in such a way that doesn’t allow experimental or non-standard features to become entrenched.

Joining extensions in the ‘planned for some time after the Windows 10 release’ timeframe are support for the Object RTC specification, used to build realtime voice and video communications in the browser; Pointer Lock, used to constrain pointer movement (important for gaming); and a greater variety of Cortana scenarios.

As for a final feature that should make it in the first version, Microsoft announced back in February that it was investigating adding support for asm.js, the high performance JavaScript subset, to its Chakra JavaScript engine. The Edge build released in Windows 10 build 10074 last week includes experimental asm.js support (though it has to be enabled manually), and some benchmark scores published by Microsoft suggest that it can provide some huge performance boosts.

In a WebGL benchmark using the Unity 3D engine, Edge without asm.js support is about 50 percent faster than Internet Explorer 11. Turn on the asm.js feature, and performance doubles, making it three times faster than the old browser. Physics simulations and artificial intelligence showed the biggest gains.

All told, Edge is shaping up to be a very different browser from Internet Explorer 11. Microsoft says that in total, some 220,000 lines of code, and 300 old APIs, have been removed from Edge. 300,000 new lines of code have been added, with more than 4,200 fixes made to improve Edge’s interoperability and compatibility with other browsers. Soon the only thing it’ll have in common with its ancestral predecessor will be its blue ‘e’ icon.”

Geek Software of the Week: Driver Toolkit!

DriverToolkitThis one DOES cost you a small fee, but if you have an old PC to rebuild, and you don’t have the driver disk, and don’t even know what motherboard is in the system, this is REALLY worth it! Only $29.90 for a lifetime license, or, you can buy only a month’s worth, just to build one PC for less than $7.00! Definitely worth not having to fool around discovering drivers on your own!

Driver Toolkit 8

  • The Ultimate Solution for PC Drivers
  • Download & Update the latest drivers for your PC
  • Quick fix unknown, outdated or corrupted drivers
  • Features including driver backup, restore & uninstall
  • 8,000,000+ database of hardware & drivers
  • Designed for Windows 8, 7, vista & xp (32 & 64-bit)

“Scan your PC Devices
DriverToolkit scans PC devices and detect the best drivers for your PC with our Superlink Driver-Match Technology.

Download Drivers
You may specify the driver package to download, or download all recommended driver packages with one-click.

Install Devices
When download is finished, just click the ‘Install’ button to start driver installation. Can’t you see? It’s quick and easy!

Download official drivers & fix driver issues.
DriverToolkit automatically delivers the latest official drivers to your PC. Searching drivers on CD or on the website is frustrating and time-consuming; Why not end all frustration right now sit back relax and watch DriverToolkit solve the painful driver issues for you. All drivers we offer are official versions or WHQL versions, you can use them without any security or compatibility concerns.

Keeping installed drivers up-to-date.
Most of the cases when hardware devices is not working or malfunctioning are caused by incorrect driver installations or outdated driver versions. DriverToolkit has more than 8,000,000 driver entities in the database, including Motherboard, Sound card, Video card, Network adaptor, Modem, Mouse, Keyboard, Scanner, Printer, and Digital devices etc. You can easily update all these drivers with DriverToolkit.

Backup your important drivers.
It’s always a wise decision to backup all important documents, emails, photos, etc. But have you ever thought about backing up your PC drivers?
It happens that for some reasons you want to reinstall your operating system and that no driver CD are available or for some devices, it can be very difficult to find the proper drivers. While using DriverToolkit you can easily make a copy of all drivers currently installed on your PC with one click.

Restore your driver backups.
No longer need to install drivers by hand after reinstalling your operating system or under similar circumstances. Just backup all drivers and you can restore all your drivers whenever you want. This feature can be very useful when you need install drivers on multiple PC with the same hardware configuration. With DriverToolkit, you can save a lot of time when installing your operating system.

Remove unwanted drivers.
To avoid unpredictable driver conflicts, old driver files should always be removed before updating to newer drivers or when removing an older hardware and replacing it with a newer one.
DriverToolkit has the ability to find hidden drivers which are no longer in use and help you quickly get rid of them.”

Windows 10 – The Final Version of Windows?

They are betting the farm on Windows 10!

Windows 10 will be final version of Windows

Telegraph.co.uk – By: Rhiannon Williams – “Windows 10 will be the last major Windows release, with all subsequent updates issued as regular instalments, Microsoft has confirmed.

Developer Jerry Nixon told a crowd at Microsoft’s Ignite conference that ‘Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10’.

The company confirmed Mr Nixon’s comments in a statement issued to the Verge, emphasising there would continue to be a ‘long future of Windows innovations’.

‘Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers,’ a spokesperson said.

The company’s comments suggest Windows 10 will receive small free incremental updates in the vein of Apple’s Mac OS X.

The newest version of Microsoft’s operating system is due for release around the end of July, according to chip maker AMD. Though designed to be used universally across all Windows platforms, including HoloLens and Xbox, the PC version will be the first made available, while Windows Phones users will have to wait.

New feature Continuum has been designed so individuals using Windows 10 with a mouse and keyboard will see the new system in classic desktop mode, but switching to a tablet or smartphone will transform it into touchscreen mode.”

Dr. Bill.TV #381 – Video – “The Virtual Brain Edition”

Mighty No. 9 due in September, Microsoft cracks down on misleading ad sites, Microsoft’s Build has a Hololens demo, Microsoft HoloLens hardware, GSotW: Antibody Software Wizmouse, Apple confirms the tattoo issue with the Apple Watch, how-old.net site.
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Dr. Bill.TV #381 – Audio – “The Virtual Brain Edition”

Mighty No. 9 due in September, Microsoft cracks down on misleading ad sites, Microsoft’s Build has a Hololens demo, Microsoft HoloLens hardware, GSotW: Antibody Software Wizmouse, Apple confirms the tattoo issue with the Apple Watch, how-old.net site.
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TechPodcasts Network

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Blubrry Network

Dr. Bill Bailey.NET

Antibody Software Wizmouse


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