Monday
Sep292014

Adobe is bringing Photoshop to Chromebooks for education

Looks like Adobe is open to throwing Google's Chromebooks a bone. Reports that Photoshop will be made available for Chromebooks geared towards education.

As part of Adobe's Creative Cloud software, which will soon be available for Chromebooks for education users who have a paid creative cloud membership.

The initial version of Photoshop will be a "streaming" version of Photoshop. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and whether it will entice more users to consider Chromebooks as a substitute personal computing platform.

Source: The Verge

Monday
Sep292014

Nokia's Lumia 830 to be launched next week, coming to Rogers

There's a new midrange Windows Phone model coming to Canada from Nokia. The Lumia 830, which is a Windows 8.1 device expected to come to Rogers, will feature a 5-inch 720p HD display,  7, a 1.2Ghz quad-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB storage and microSD expansion. A more modest 10MP PureView camera with OIS will serve as this device's camera.

Source: WPCentral

Monday
Sep292014

Review: Saeco Minuto offers tailored drinks at a touch

By Sonya Davidson
Since it's National Coffee Day, I figured it was perfect timing to review the new SAECO Minuto machine. 

When it comes to coffee and espresso machines there are no shortage of choices out there in the market these days. How do you determine what’s right for your lifestyle? It all boils down to convenience, or does it?

Our hard-core Italian friends’ house for dinner and when you wanted a cappuccino it seemed to be a real production. They are most faithful to the big machine that takes up much counterspace in their massive entertaining kitchen. 

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Monday
Sep292014

Sling launches Slingbox M1 and SlingTV in Canada, now with Chromecast support

Canadians will soon be able to get the Slingbox M1 and new SlingTV in stores. While we await official word from Sling on the new releases, pricing has been set at $179.99 CAD and $329.99 CAD for Slingbox M1 and SlingTV respectively. Find out more about the new TV Anywhere products here. Hit jump to get more info on Chromecast support.

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