Sure, the Windows lock screen greets you with a stunning vista when you turn on your PC or open your laptop. It doesn’t serve any security purpose, however, and you have likely stopped appreciating the grandeur of its scene long ago. To my eyes, the lock screen is just an annoyance that I must tap …
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A joint project among former Microsoft engineers Dave Amenta, Rafael Rivera and David Golden, EarTrumpet is a volume control app with an exceptionally clean and friendly UI. It makes navigating your various audio devices on a Windows 10 machine much simpler. In the space of only a couple of clicks, EarTrumpet allows you to manage default audio devices and change …
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Mac users may be excited by the addition of a dark mode to MacOS Mojave but did you know this is something Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon) could already do? When the Windows 10 Anniversary Update arrived a few years back it brought the ability to put your device into Dark Mode, which offers black windows instead of white ones. Whether you’re …
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Is it better to have a self-contained pair of smart glasses, or something that simply uses your phone to do the heavy lifting and battery power? Kopin, a manufacturer of microdisplays and smart glasses components, is betting on the latter. The Kopin Golden-i Infinity isn’t really an AR device, so much as it is a smart screen that plugs into …
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A dual-screen mobile device project from Microsoft thought to be abandoned may have been snatched up by Dell, reports Winfuture.de. The device, which resembles Microsoft’s Courier and Andromeda projects, was seen in documents by Winfuture.de and details a Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 on Arm device codenamed ‘Januss’. The site also suggests it would be the first device to use an unannounced Snapdragon …
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By lunchtime each day, open window upon open window litters my desktop workspace. I’m sure you feel my pain. Thankfully, there is a way to get rid of the clutter and focus on the task (and window) at hand that doesn’t involve going around and clicking the tiny minimize button on each and every window you want to clear from …
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Acer’s quick to grab the credit for shipping out Alexa-enabled laptops, but the reality is more complicated. The manufacturer sent out a press release Monday morning declaring “First!” on shipping laptops with Amazon’s voice assistant preinstalled. That’s fine, but the first notebook to ship with it installed will be the Acer Nitro 5 Spin, which won’t be shipping until next month. …
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In addition to introducing a number of fresh features, hidden gems and new and useful privacy settings, Windows 10 April 2018 Update now offers to fix blurry apps for you, an annoying problem you can run into when you pair a classic Windows app with a high-resolution display. I’ll cover this new display setting along with some old standbys so …
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Microsoft could soon be making good old copy-and-paste a lot more versatile. On the heels of its Build developers conference earlier this week, Microsoft VP of Operating Systems Joe Belfiore tweeted out: Well, what a coincidence! I got some questions about Cloud Clipboard yesterday– and this showed up sooner than I expected! 🙂 Take a look at what’s coming for …
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At the Microsoft Build 2018 developers conference, the software giant talked a lot about the integration of Windows 10 PCs with iOS and Android devices. One part of this is Timeline, a feature in Windows 10 that gives you a snapshot of everything you’ve done on your PC in a reverse-chronological order. This will allow you to, for example, go …
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