Category: software
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“The entire crypto fantasy…” according to Jon von Tetzchner
The Co-Founder and CEO of the company behind the Vivaldi browser, Jon von Tetzchner, in a post on the Vivaldi blog: The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else…
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Google Play Music App Getting Podcasts
Elias Roman: To that end, today we’re launching a portal for podcasters to start uploading their shows to Google Play Music before we open up the service to listeners. Translated from Google-speak: The Google Play Music app for Android (and iOS) is going to download podcasts to Google servers and rehost them on their own…
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Cmd-Number Shortcuts For Safari 9
Daniel Jalkut: If you’re a Safari user and you’ve updated to the Safari 9 or OS X 10.11 beta, you may have noticed a minor change in the default keyboard shortcuts for the app. In Safari 8 and earlier, keyboard shortcuts combining the Command key and a number, e.g. Cmd-1, Cmd-2, Cmd-3, would open the…
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Upgrading to Windows 10 Today
If you want to skip the waiting line to force the Windows 10 upgrade from 7 or 8 today, follow this link and click the buttons. I did this successfully on both a laptop that runs Windows 7, and one that runs Windows 8.
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Disabling Windows 10’s Built-in Spyware and P2P Update Sharing
Alec Meer: Windows 10‘s privacy settings very much need to be frowned at. Essentially: unless you pay close attention to the fluffy options offered when you first install Microsoft’s new operating system, it’s going to quietly track your behaviour and use it to fire targeted ads at you, as well as keeping tabs on your…