ShareBy David Johnston
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
The Paint.NET team, which offers a free replacement for Microsoft’s lacking MS Paint program that rivals much more advanced (and expensive!) programs, released a major update today. Many features were added or improved including a better interface, more language support, more effects, and better performance and disk usage. My [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
This hasn’t hit any major news outlets, probably because it looks like the photographer simply sent the picture to PSPHome.com, but it’s amusing, as well as disconcerting. I mean, yes, a police officer’s life is a stressful one, and relaxation is important, but not while you’re watching a wall [...]

ShareBy Kyle Reasons
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Rumors sure are fun, especially rumors surrounding Apple. Apple has always been the type of company to keep their new products on a “hush-hush” basis, which is part of the reason why there always so many rumors floating around about Apple. Since Apple switched [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Ever heard of Bella keyboards? Unless you are in the video editing industry chances are slim that you would have come across the exciting range of digital video editing keyboards that Bella makes.
We chose to review the Bella DV 3.0 Video Keyboard and [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
This is a definite no-no. Microsoft apparently was trying to commission a blogger to make some edits in articles it was “sure had technical errors”. Jimmy Wales and company are not amused.
“We were very disappointed to hear that Microsoft was taking that approach,” Wales said Tuesday.
Spokeswoman Catherine Brooker [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
OK, here’s your date, sorta. Microsoft has targeted the second half of 2007 as the date for the Service Pack. That only gives us a 6 month window, and most likely means December.
The company has put out a call for “customers and partners (to) actively [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.
While at CES, you couldn’t help overhear or be part of conversations discussing the coolest or most popular gadgets and/or announcements. So I wondered if there was a more structured way to determine what indeed were the most popular products/topics, and I hit upon using YouTube to give [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Ever get cut off by a driver who seemed to think a turn signal mandates entry into your lane … even without any space? Nowadays a honk generally gets a response, but generally not the kind my mother would have gotten … an apologetic wave or something. Nope, [...]