برچسب: Computing
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You Can Try Notepad’s New AI Summarizer in Windows 11 Now (If You Pay)
Microsoft is adding new AI features to Notepad and Snipping Tool in Windows 11, but there’s a catch: Some of these are locked behind a paywall. The company is rolling out an AI feature for Notepad that can summarize articles for you, while the Snipping Tool will let you draw shapes with ease. All of…
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Microsoft Just Uninstalled Copilot From Your PC
Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update is an important one, patching 57 security vulnerabilities (including seven zero-day flaws). It’s an update I’d encourage all Windows users to install as soon as possible, especially as those zero-day vulnerabilities pose a serious security risk to anyone using a PC. As it happens, this update comes with an extra…
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Why Microsoft Is Phasing Out Their Remote Desktop App (and What to Use Instead)
Microsoft has announced that it’s pulling the old Microsoft Remote Desktop tool that you could get in the Microsoft Store. The company is advising users to move over to the shiny new Windows App instead, which takes care of a lot of the same functions—including connecting to PCs remotely, and accessing Windows 365 computers in…
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You Can Use the Windows App to Acess Your PC Remotely or in the Cloud
There’s more than one way to use Windows now. As well as sitting down in front of a locally installed copy of Windows, running on a hard drive inside your desktop or laptop, you can also fire up the Microsoft Windows app—a one-stop central hub for managing connections to remote PCs and Windows in the…
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This Mac Screen Blurring App Actually Helped Me Focus
Study after study shows that humans can’t really multitask but we all keep trying to do it anyway. Why is that? In part, I blame our nice big computer monitors, which can fit lots of open windows at once. I have a habit of leaving a chat window open in the background when I should…
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Windows Has a Hidden Package Manager
Installing a bunch of applications at once on Windows can be annoying. You need to find the installer packages, download them, then run them all, one after another. It requires spending a bunch of time clicking though menus and checking boxes. But you don’t have to live this way. Linux users have long used package…
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This Simple Text Document Could Replace Your Calendar App
Gina Trapani, founder of the website you’re reading right now, popularized a plaintext format for to-do lists way back in 2006 (please excuse any weird formatting on that nearly 20-year-old article). Called Todo.txt , it is used by many people to this day, in part thanks to an ecosystem of applications built around the format.…
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I Tried Microsoft Copilot’s Mac App, and You Probably Shouldn't
There’s a lot of talk online these days about hiding Copilot in Windows and tools that can remove it entirely . There’s a reason for that: Some people are annoyed with AI and would prefer not to deal with it. Despite this trend, Microsoft recently launched Copilot for Mac , for some reason. While Windows…
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You Can Now Limit How Much RAM Microsoft Edge Eats Up While Gaming
Microsoft Edge continues to position itself as the sensible, performance-centric alternative to Chrome, free of the bloat that Google’s continual feature creep can sometimes result in. Now, it seems, the company is also coming after other browsers like Opera GX , as it’s just copied one of that browser’s most useful features. As reported by…