This week, a program you can use to turn your iPad into a second (or third) screen, OneDrive changes limits to your cloud storage, and what’s going on at CES.

Put your iPad to work during the day with Duet

If you typically only use your iPad in the evening, or while commuting, you need to check out Duet, an app which turns the tablet into a screen you can use with your OS X or Windows 10 computer.

The app for your iPad (it also works with iPhones) is currently discounted by 40% and costs $12, but the computer client is a free download.

Once you’ve got it running on both your computer and your iPad, you simply connect your tablet to your computer, run Duet, and the software automatically transforms your tablet into a computer screen that you can either set up to mirror what’s on your desktop, or run as a separate screen.

So here’s another reason to favour the iPad Pro over the iPad Air 2, because the bigger screen of the Pro means I’ve got even more real estate. So now, I run all my calendars and iTunes off the iPad screen, and leave my other two monitors for primary research and writing, and communications.

Cloud storage limits at OneDrive have changed

Microsoft was very liberal about giving away storage space on its OneDrive cloud storage service. They’ve since changed the storage limits.

It’s a controversial decision, because Microsoft had been offering people 15 GB of storage, and they are clawing that back to 5 GB of free storage.

Subscribers to Office 365 get 1 TB of storage with their plan.

One customer commented on the blog post announcing the change complaining about having storage already being used that was to be taken away.

It resulted in Microsoft program manager Douglas Pearce issuing a retraction of sorts

If you’ve been using OneDrive, and you want to keep the storage space you’ve already been using, you can do so by registering.

What happens in Vegas at CES is broadcast to the world

The annual tech conference, International Consumer Electronics Show, opened today in Las Vegas, but the pre-event press briefings and announcements have been going on since Monday:

• Taiwan tech company HTC has made some clever strategic partnerships recently. It’s working with Valve on the Vive VR headset, which is expected to be released in April, and announced on Tuesday that a new kit was being shipped out to developers right now. The company also announced a partnership with Under Armour on a line of connected health products: a band, a heart-rate monitor, and a scale. The three items can be purchased together in a “HealthBox”.
• To go along with the HTC products, Under Armour is also releasing a “smart” shoe and wireless headphones (with JBL).
• If you live in the U.S. and have a 4K HDTV, you can now turn your living room into a sports bar with the Hopper 3 DVR. The new device, from Dish Network, can split a 4K screen into quadrants, and show a 1080p stream of four different channels. The Hopper 3 has 16 tuners, so you can record or watch 16 programs at once. Only in America, though. Pity.
• Blu-ray players with the ability to output 4K video are coming to market this year. Both Panasonic and Samsung announced models yesterday.
• Kodak is releasing a new Super 8 camera that actually records onto film. Knowing how difficult it is to find and develop film stock, the company says it will send digital versions to people who send film in for processing.
• Volkswagen revealed the modern-day version of its popular Microbus van of yore. The electric Budd-e is only a concept, but shows off the German auto manufacturers plan for electric vehicles. The steering wheel, for example, is designed to respond to swipes and gestures.
• Faraday Future is a new vehicle manufacturer that promises to out-Tesla Elon Musk. On Monday night, the company unveiled its FFZero1 concept car, which looks like some kind of spaceship, both inside and out. This company was founded only 18 months ago, and they already have a vehicle in play. A 1,000 horsepower vehicle. They expect to deliver production vehicles within a couple of years. That’s ridiculously fast for an auto manufacturer, but with all digital production, they can iterate quickly. Faraday Future is still really vague about what they’re really doing, because a promotional video makes claims about like this: “What if you didn’t so much own a car as use one whenever you needed.” But they’ve got lots of money, have been hiring top talent from all over the world, and plan on building their vehicles in Nevada, where they say they will be breaking ground on the first plant within a few weeks. Faraday Future is something to watch.