Simply Draw, a guided drawing app from the makers of Simply Piano and Simply Guitar, is designed to change that and right now, you can try it for free with a 7-day trial. What is Simply Draw?

Wacom is tempting iPad illustrators with its first Android-powered portable drawing tablet.

After that, the Windows 8.1 start button simply disappears and the Pokki "start button" sits in its place. Pokki also has other features I like.

Patrick Marshall answers your tech questions. This week's topics cover the Start button on monitor screens failing to function and an alert sound on a PC that's becoming more frequent.

Windows Blue could restore the Start button, boot straight to the desktop "Windows 8.1" may let you pretend that the Start screen never happened.

He means that when you sit down at your computer, you typically use the Start button to begin your computing session, but in the future, you'll sit down and open Copilot instead.

Modern architectural drawing is usually computer-generated. The resulting hyper-realistic digital renderings often trick the eye and make it difficult to discern the imagined from the real.