Import Photos from iPhone to Your Computer When the original iPhone came out and long before iCloud, most people had to connect the iPhone to iTunes. That’s the way you did updates and installs. Now your iPhone doesn’t need a computer to operate. If you have a Mac or PC with Photostream installed, those pictures should automatically go into your computer. You should be able to safely delete them from your Camera Roll and off your iPhone....
LastPass Hacked In a blog post, LastPass gave some limited details about what happened: The company also said, “We are requiring that all users who are logging in from a new device or IP address first verify their account by email, unless you have multifactor authentication enabled. As an added precaution, we will also be prompting users to update their master password.” We are confident that our encryption measures are sufficient to protect the vast majority of users....
Reset Advertising ID on Android The steps for resetting your ad ID and turning off ad personalization are essentially the same for all versions of Android, though things may vary slightly. Head to Settings > Google > Ads > Reset advertising ID and click OK when the confirmation screen appears. It would be best if you also wanted to make sure to opt-out of ads personalization. Or, on other versions of Android, it might say “Opt-out of interest-based ads,” and you may find a toggle switch or checkbox to enable it....
What Is It? Like Blek, this game gives you a pattern, and you need to find it among the chaos. It reminds me of the retro game, Simon. Your job is to see the color arrangement and swipe across the shapes to create the pattern. As you move up in levels, the shapes start moving around and changing. It’s not just patterned recognition but a bit of timing and reflexes. There’s no time limit, score, or penalty....
For example, here, I copied some text from groovyPost and hit Ctrl + V to paste it in, and it brings the site formatting over – bolding, font style, font size. It’s set to bring over links automatically too. Make Word Keep Plain Text Only In Word 2010 or 2013, go to File > Options > Advanced or in Office 2007 click the Office button > Word Options > Advanced....
Enable Screen Time To enable it on your iPhone or iPad head to Settings > Screen Time > Turn on Screen Time. You will see an introductory screen that briefly describes what you can do with it such as weekly activity reports, limit apps, set content restrictions, and more. Tap the Continue button and on the next screen tap whether it’s your device or for your child. You can immediately configure Downtime and App Limits or skip for now and configure things later....
Microsoft Office Insider Program The Windows Insider program works so well that the company is offering something similar to Microsoft Office called the Office Insider program. Early this year, Microsoft launched a public preview program for the latest version of its productivity suite Office 365/Office 2016. It allowed users the opportunity to test run some of the new features included in the suite, such as Tell Me, Realtime Collaboration, Colorful Theme, Outlook Attachments and Groups, Skype for Business, and enhanced BI Tools....
On Monday, Microsoft announced it launched a handy interactive website that will help you choose your next PC based on your specific needs. The site is aptly named Windows Help Me Choose. Here’s a look. Windows Help Me Choose The site walks you through a series of questions asking what your computing needs are and the features you want. After answering a series of questions, you get a list of suggested systems based on your answers....
Microsoft also brought new privacy settings to the Creators Update (version 1703), released last Spring. The company revealed it is taking more steps to enhance privacy even more in Fall Creators Update, which is set to be released on October 17, 2017. The announcement of new privacy enhancements was made this week. “Continuing with our commitment to privacy and data control, today we’re announcing privacy enhancements coming to the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update for consumers and commercial customers that further increase your access to information and provides you more control over what information is collected....
Microsoft Provides Same Day Upgrade Service for Windows 10 For users experiencing difficulty upgrading to Windows 10, Microsoft is providing its Answers Desk experts to help you through the process. All you need to do is head on over to the Windows 10 Upgrade Challenge page and register your device at a participating retail store before 12 noon. There is a lot of fine print with this offer, so be sure to review the details before ya get too excited…...
However, it’s no longer available via the Media Creation Tool (MCT) which Microsoft encouraged users to use if you didn’t want to wait for it to appear via Windows Update. We covered how to use the MCT to update manually. But the last statement we’ve seen from Microsoft is that the November Update has not been pulled from Windows Update, only from the MCT. Continue reading to see how things played out....
Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4343909 Provides protections against a new speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) that affects Intel® Core® processors and Intel® Xeon® processors (CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646). Make sure previous OS protections against Spectre Variant 2 and Meltdown vulnerabilities are enabled using the registry settings outlined in the Windows Client and Windows Server guidance KB articles. (These registry settings are enabled by default for Windows Client OS editions, but disabled by default for Windows Server OS editions....
Windows 10 Build 20215 A new feature included in today’s build is Windows 10 Search supports the dark theme. “For Insiders who have their system theme set to dark, we are introducing dark theme search results for the Windows 10 search experience on the taskbar. This server-side change is rolling out to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. This change will make the transition between Start and search results easier on the eyes now that both support dark theme,” writes Microsoft exec Brandon LeBlanc....
Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19587 Here is a list of general changes and improvements in this latest preview build: Based on feedback, when you have muted your volume, the volume will now not unmute when using the hardware keyboard volume keys until you raise the volume (or manually unmute).We made a couple of improvements to Narrator and how it works with some of the controls in Windows:Narrator now uses a more friendly string to describe the audio output in the Select playback device dropdown menu in the volume flyout....
Windows 10 Preview Build 19559 Here is the list of general changes, fixes and system improvements contained in this recent Insider build: We fixed an issue with the IME candidate window for East Asian IMEs (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and the Japanese IME) not opening sometimes on recent builds.We fixed an issue that could result in explorer.exe crashing when backing out of folders containing .heic or RAW files.We fixed an issue that could result in explorer....
To-Do is an entirely new app from the same developers behind Wunderlist, an app/service Microsoft purchased a couple of years ago and will now retire once all its features have been ported over to To-Do. In this first launch/preview, To-Do is available in a Web client as well as iPhone and Android. Let’s check it out. Microsoft To-Do for iPhone, Android, Windows and Web The interface features a clean design focusing on your tasks list, which includes completed and upcoming tasks....
Note: If you don’t want to wait for the update to come to your computer, check out our articles on how to remove Flash today: How to Manually Remove Adobe Flash from Windows 10How to Manually Remove Adobe Flash from Your Mac Microsoft Removing Adobe Flash this July Microsoft notes that it is getting ready to remove the Adobe Flash component this summer. This will make sure that everyone will have the vulnerable and security-ridden component removed whether they manually do it or not....
New Office 365 App Launcher The first thing you will notice is how slick the new app launcher looks; its behavior is more like a desktop app, too. Users will appreciate the improvements to search and quicker access to recently used apps. Previous customizations introduced last year are still there and work better. The menu has three tabs called Home, New, and All. Home is where you find all your favorite apps, which you can customize by making them large or small or move around....
Some of the new features include a new Dark mode, Cortana cross-device features, Virtual Desktop improvements, and much more. There are also new updates to Microsoft Edge which will help complete the browser and make it more of a contender to Chrome and Firefox down the road. New Microsoft Edge Features Windows 10 Build 14316 Here’s a list of the new features (sans developer features) according to the Microsoft Edge Team:...
OnLive Desktop Standard Last night I launched OnLive Desktop Standard on my iPad. I noticed two new icons…Internet Explorer 9 and Adobe Reader. The ability to work on MS Office Files with your iPad OnLive Desktop has always been available. Now Standard account users can sync PDF files among your computer systems and read them. The Standard version includes Internet Explorer 9, but not Adobe Flash.Since free Standard accounts don’t have Flash, general web browsing isn’t supported....
