There are many iPhone quiz apps available, but nothing to the level of the newest and best iPhone Quiz app - Kwizzly. Kwizzly takes the idea of testing your brain to a a whole other level.                 Instead of the traditional brain busting questions, Kwizzly takes it to a whole other level by taking an image of something that may be familiar, and blurring it com ...

Via.Me, the First App to Offer Photo, Video, Audio Filtering and Sharing to Multiple Social Networks, Is Now Available on Android Via.me is a social media publishing platform created by RadiumOne Labs that has been available on iTunes for Apple iPhone users for over 5 months which has proved very popular by its 1 millions users. And now on September the 4th RadiumOne introduced Via.me for Android on Google ...

Microsoft is truly going all mobile with their release of Windows 8. The operating system sports tiles and a new interface that is made for touch devices. This was clear when the first consumer preview was released, but Microsoft made it even more clear by manufacturing their own personally branded tablet with their own operating system. Never in the history of Microsoft have they developed their own hardwa ...

I recently started a new podcast here at Paul Shirey Tech called Tech Roundup Weekly, but this isn't my first time working with audio. I've edited a total of around 40 full-length podcasts, and I've also done several concert recordings. I do all my audio editing in a free program called Audacity. If you've ever done audio editing, you've probably heard of it. Here are some tips to make sure you get the most ...

Microsoft is entering the tablet market again, this time manufacturing the device as a Microsoft branded device. There's an interesting catch though. [audio:http://paulshireytech.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Microsoft-Surface-Flashes-Microsoft.mp3] Remember those big laptops people would carry around with the screens swiveled around? This was the first attempt from Microsoft at what they called a ...

Listen to blog post [BETA] If you've ever bought a factory Windows computer, you know the collection of extra software that they come with. Dell machines usually come with a DVD playing program and a CD burning utility. Chances are you already have picked out open source programs to do these tasks, so you will just uninstall these programs within the first 5 minutes of turning on the computer. Anyways, thes ...

Windows Vista was a complete fail for Microsoft and is dubbed "the Windows 7 beta" by some today. When Windows Vista was released there were over 1000 written and automatically generated bug reports regarding problems that would affect most of the users. Stores began seeing insane amounts of returns, and people either went back to Windows XP or switched to Mac. Every now again I run into someone who hasn't ...

Adobe has announced that a special version of Photoshop called Photoshop Touch will soon be coming to the iPad. Photoshop Express is already available for free on iOS devices, but now they are making a more high-end dedicated version for the iPad that should hopefully be more like the Photoshop for Mac and PC. This is great for those of you who have an iPad and love doing graphic design or even photo editin ...

If you're a photographer, you may or may not edit your pictures. Some photographers have gained the skill to be able to take amazing raw photography simply by working with their cameras, but that all takes time. There's nothing wrong with using some software to make your pictures better if that's what you want to do. Here are the two programs I use, and a brief overview of them. Abobe Lightroom Adobe Lightr ...

We all use software, whether we love it or not. The wars between open source and closed source have been around for a long time. It's a debate over whether or not software should be available for everyone to use and make modifications to and how much power they should have over the software. The two big examples of open vs. closed source are Windows vs. Mac OS and iOS vs. Android. If you didn't guess which ...