One Year Later: Did Microsoft Listen to Windows 10 Complaints?

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What I've Learned About the Brokers Who Trade Passwords by the Millions The guy behind the security website "Have I Been Pwned?" shares his experiences in getting the password databaes he uses to alert people their accounts have been compromised. [Motherboard] The Babysitters Club Apps like Seamless and Yelp listen in on our adult lives, then speak to us like children [Real Life] Deep Space Radiation May Cause Heart Problems In Future Mars Explorers An unwelcome lesson from the Apollo missions. [Popular Science] Dark Patterns are designed to trick you (and they're all over the Web) No, it's not only you—some user interfaces today intentionally want to confuse and enroll. [ArsTechnica] How to Share a Google Calendar with Other People We all lead busy lives, and keeping track of appointments and events is key to maintaining your sanity. Lots of people use Google Calendar to manage their schedules, which means it’s very useful to share some of your calendars with other people, like co-workers or family members. Read This Article → How to Change Themes on Samsung Galaxy Devices With its modern handsets, Samsung has done a lot to remove the "ugly" stigma that has been attached to its Touchwiz user interface since…well, the dawn of Touchwiz. But if you still don’t like it, you can change it. Read This Article → One Year Later: Did Microsoft Listen to Windows 10 Complaints? Windows 10 is an odd beast. It’s a worthy upgrade to Windows 7, and a big improvement from Windows 8. But Microsoft made quite a few decisions people weren’t happy about. So, a year into Windows 10, with a new update on the way, we ask: Did Microsoft listen to the complaints? Read This Article → How to Remove the Optical Drive from an Older 2007-2009 iMac Whether you need to replace your optical drive or swap it out with a solid-state drive, here’s how to remove the DVD drive from an older iMac. Read This Article → How to Create Time-Saving “Hot Corner” Shortcuts on Your Mac Hot Corners are one of macOS’s unheralded features. You may use a Mac every day and not even know hot corners exist, but they’re handy: with them, you can mouse over any corner of your screen to instantly activate routine functions, like the screensaver, launchpad, or showing the desktop. Read This Article → How to Save Searches in Windows for Quick Access Later If you regularly search for certain files in Windows, saving searches is a great way to access them more quickly than retyping the search every time. Saving searches is especially useful if you often perform more advanced searches, or search by combinations of date range, file type, or keywords. Read This Article → How to Enable Offline Browsing in Firefox To make your browsing experience faster, your web browser downloads the resources needed to display webpages, such as images, JavaScript files, and style sheets, into the browser's cache. When you visit a webpage again, the browser uses the downloaded resources to display the page instead of downloading them again. Read This Article → How to Use Android's Built-In Tethering When Your Carrier Blocks It Tethering your phone’s internet connection, which allows users to share their phone’s data connection with other devices, is really useful if you’re out and about with no Wi-Fi–but some carriers will block the feature from your phone. If you get an error message when you try to tether (“Account not set up for tethering”), here’s a fix. Read This Article → How to Recover Your Files From a BitLocker-Encrypted Drive Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption always forces you to create a recovery key when you set it up. You may have printed that recovery key, written it down, saved it to a file, or stored it online with a Microsoft account. If your BitLocker drive isn’t unlocking normally, the recovery key is your only option. Read This Article → Download.com Has Finally Stopped Bundling Crapware SourceForge and Tucows aren’t the only download sites cleaning up their act. We can finally confirm that Download.com, also known as CNET Download, has ended the installer program that they were so often criticized for. Read This Article → Advertisement Download JavaScript: Novice to Ninja (FREE for a limited time!) The aim of this book is to introduce you to programming using the JavaScript language, eventually helping you to develop into a JavaScript ninja. Click here to download