Customers all over the world are used to frequent price increases of subscriptions by now. Many online services that require a subscription increase prices regularly, often once per year or every second year. That is bad enough, especially if the service does not get any better because of it. While services argue that inflation and…
Author: Martin Brinkmann
Amazon is disabling apps on Fire TVs now
If you use a Fire TV device by Amazon, then you know that you may install third-party Android apps on the device that are not provided via Amazon’s official App Store. This is an excellent option to install apps that you may want to use, like streaming apps or YouTube frontend clients that get rid…
Brace yourself, OpenAI to introduce ads into its apps
The free AI ride is as good as over. Free meaning no ads in this case. The writing was on the wall: AI processing, infrastructure and upkeep are expensive and companies can only burn through a specific amount of money before investors demand a return on their investment or they run into payment issues. ChatGPT…
Gog is having a PC games sale: here are three recommendations
What used to be a once or twice a year occurrence has turned into the opposite. It seems that digital games sales happen every week nowadays, which has turned them from something exciting into something bland and interchangeable. It is the same with sweets for Christmas. They used to be special, but you get them…
Someone predicted that YouTube would show just a single video on its homepage and it became reality
How many videos do you get when you open the YouTube homepage on your device? When I do open YouTube in any browser I get zero, because I have turned off the YouTube history and Google decided it would push users into signing in to an account by disabling the generic feed of videos that…
Dell: 500 million Windows 10 PCs can’t upgrade to Windows 11
How is the last supported Windows operating system doing after Microsoft ended support for its predecessor Windows 10 a month ago? Not so good, at least according to Dell CEO Jeffrey Clarke. Clarke revealed several information during the company’s latest earnings call. One of them being that Dell believes that there are 500 million Windows…
Amazon may send you ads via WhatsApp: here is how to turn that off
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps out there. One reason why more and more businesses try to establish channels on WhatsApp. Most to reach customers and sell them something. Amazon is no exception to that. Maybe you have noticed already that you are getting ads from Amazon in WhatsApp. Even if not,…
How Windows 11’s Point-in-time Restore feature differs from System Restore
You may have heard that Microsoft is working on a new restore feature for Windows 11 called Point-in-time Restore. The backup feature in a sentence: It allows Windows admins to restore the exact previous state of a Windows PC. The main focus is to offer fast restores to a previous system state to allow the…
Gemini in Gmail may have been enabled by default, and turning it off takes other features with it
If you are using Google’s Gmail email service, you may have stumbled upon Smart Features already, especially if you are using the web-version of the service. Up until recently, Smart Features did not include AI, but this changed in 2025. Now, Google has baked its AI Gemini into the Smart Features of Gmail. Depending on…
Google is starting to show ads in AI Mode
The number one advertisin company on the Internet seems to have found another place to show you ads. Reports are coming in that more and more users are starting to see ads in AI Mode. AI Mode? It is a new option in Google Search that you may use to ask Google’s Gemini AI questions…









