The use of DVDs has indeed been declining over recent years, with content more readily available online and transmitted more often through flash drives. However, there are still a lot of us who would like to pop in a DVD at times and watch a movie. But this would no longer be possible with Windows 8’s default features which will be coming with absolutely no DVD playback.
Cloud storage services are increasingly becoming the new bone of contention between the major tech companies. From Apple to Google to Amazon and Microsoft, everyone wants to have a successful cloud offering. With the kickstart of Google Drive a few days ago, its natural to assume that all the other contenders in the arena may be feeling a little insecure.
Windows XP has been one of the most wildly popular operating systems around the globe. From developed nations to developing economies, it has been loved for its simplicity and user-friendliness and readily adopted. Recently, Microsoft announced that it will be relinquishing its support for Windows XP by April 8, 2014.
Microsoft is very ambitious, excited and hopeful with its Windows 8 launch which is due near the end of this year. More so, it has plans of launching ARM based tablets running Windows 8, which are officially named Windows RT tablets. These tablets will be able to offer a number of Windows-specific features which may help Microsoft compete with Apple in the tablet market. Some of these features are detailed below.
![Top 5 Front End Frameworks [Infographic]](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/frontend.webp)
Front end frameworks are very popular and widely used on the web. In more than one ways, these frameworks have made the lives of coders and web designers a lot easier. They include the likes of jQuery which is the most popular JavaScript library, Prototype, Struts, Bootstrap and and JavaScript. Now, a very interesting infographics furnishes the details about these front end frameworks.
A number of tablet vendors are lining up to roll out Windows 8 tablet as soon as Microsoft releases the much-touted OS. Needless to say, many iPad users wouldn’t mind getting a Windows-like interface on their tablets. While a true Windows 8 tablet may still be months away, you can still get a very real, smooth and awesome Windows experience on your iPad with a new tool in Cydia Store, called Quasar.
![[Tutorial] How To Add Dropbox, Google Drive Or SkyDrive to Windows Send-To Menu](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/add-code.webp)
To send your files at Google Drive, Dropbox or SkyDrive faster and much easier and easier without opening any additional windows you can simply add their shortcuts inside Send To menu. In this tutorial I will show you the entire procedure of adding all three shortcuts in Windows 7, and then with simple right mouse click you can upload your files to the cloud.
![[Complete Guide] Protecting Your Children In Windows 7](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/user-accounts-family.webp)
Windows 7 has a very effective tool called parental control which can help you to monitor and filter web sites your child visit, time they spend on the computer, software and video games they use, etc… Comprehensive and effective tool, but again fairly simple to implement, as you will see in this tutorial. One constraint however, you must have an account with administrative rights on your computer which will be protected by a password (to prevent one of your children does not change the protection settings). Also, to enable web filtering, you also must have a Windows Live (Messenger, Hotmail, etc…) which will be associated with your web filtering settings.