Senior editor for @MSpoweruser. Writes about all Windows 10, Skype, Surface, Edge. Also covers social media stuff. Contact: [email protected]
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Microsoft’s Outlook Web app is a well designed and powerful email app that could be all light email users need. The firm has recently given it an overhaul in the past year, adding a dark theme, a fluent inspired design overh...
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Progressive Web Apps are the next big thing in desktop computing, with Microsoft, Google and Firefox among others reworking their browsers so that they support PWAs. Microsoft for one has promised that it’ll be allowing users of...
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Foldable devices are the new tech hardware trend, with anticipation for what the potential they could have been built up among techies. Samsung this week just announced its own take on foldables, and Microsoft has been rumoured to...
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With Windows 10, Microsoft made it easier to turn your operating system dark. With the Windows 10 October Update, the firm brought the dark theme to the File Explorer, and now it appears to be extending that to the Windows 10 OneD...
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Samsung’s earlier debuted a continuum-like feature known as DeX. DeX is a feature exclusive to certain flagship Samsung devices which allowed them to drive a desktop-like experience once plugged into a larger screen so users...
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Samsung today revealed its new user interface for its Android phones going forward. Dubbed One UI, this new interface is aimed at making phones — many of which have now ballooned in sizes — easier to use. “Find a...
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Facebook announced yesterday that it would be taking own even more accounts as it sought to prevent election interference by disinformation agents on its platforms. This included Facebook proper, and Instagram. The firm was made a...
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Microsoft and Google are making it easier for US Citizens to go out and vote this Tuesday. In the US, Microsoft’s Bing Homepage is adorned with an “It’s Election Day. Vote!” message. The firm also has a qu...
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Google launched an ad blocking experience in Chrome earlier this year, and now the firm is expanding on those efforts with Chrome 71. “Starting in December 2018, Chrome 71 will remove all ads on the small number of sites wi...
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella reaffirmed his firm’s commitment to privacy this weekend in an interview with the UK’s Times after its Future Decoded conference. The firm spoke about how it would be using data derived...
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Apple this past Friday left the trillion dollar club, albeit briefly, as the firm reported it would no longer be reporting sales figures for its hardware, eschewing the numerical breakdowns it used to provide for its iPhones, iPa...
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Google launched a Material Design variant of its Contacts web app in 2015, and now the firm has refreshed it with its new Google theme and is moving it out of preview shortly. In a blog post (and an email sent to G Suite subscribe...
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Most modern phones now — thankfully– ship with gG LTE support, which is no longer the novelty it used to be years ago. Now, Apple might be getting set to launch the next stage of this technology into the limelight in...
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Early last month, Google announced the Google Pixel 3, Pixel 3 Xl, Home Hub and Pixel Slate at its hardware launch event in New York. Three out of four of these devices are on sale, with the Pixel Slate being the outlier. Now, And...
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Twitter this week took down 10, 000 accounts encouraging voter suppression, Reuters revealed this week. The firm took down 10, 000 accounts which appeared to be run by individuals who were previously voters of the US Democratic p...
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Samsung’s Galaxy Book2 recently became available at the Microsoft Store in the US yesterday. Now, it is being sold at other online stores like AT&T and Samsung. As per Windows Central, it will also become available from...
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Mozilla is working in changes to Firefox’s control centre as part of its initiative to make it easier to disable ad tracking. Starting with Version 65, the control centre located in the URL bar will ditch the off/on toggle ...
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Microsoft wants you to use Edge over Chrome in Windows, the firm has made that clear in more ways than one, but users have a continually rejected Redmond’s homemade browser for Google’s generally superior offering. No...
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Microsoft and the NFL have debuted a new set of four videos, showing how NFL stars use Microsoft’s Surface devices to pursue their “side hustles.” Melvin Ingram’s video enlightens users about how he uses Su...
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Microsoft is preparing to launch the Windows 10 October Update in a matter of weeks, if not days. Unlike the initial Windows 10 Update, this is not some feature-packed revamp. This release resembles the Windows 10 April Update and...
