Windows, Security & Privacy, Open Source and more
Turning Bluetooth off for two hours, enabling Dark Mode at eight in the evening, or setting the volume to 0 percent in the morning. These are all examples what a new PowerToys tool might offer in the future. The main idea is simple: let users create schedules for certain system settings. Besides what is been…
DISM-GUI is a free app for Windows 10 and 11 that gives you access to various commands to check and repair Windows. Good to know: DISM stands for Deployment Image Servicing and Management. It is a command line tool that, among other features, may be used to find and repair Windows issues related to missing…
Fastfetch is an open source cross-platform application that is command line driven. It collects system information and displays the info in the terminal window next to an Ascii art image of the used operating system. The information that it collects is useful, but the main purpose of the tool seems to be to share a…
Will it disallow access to the Windows kernel by security products? Not right now, but the path could lead there. Microsoft held a security conference earlier this week at its Redmond headquarters. It invited business partners, especially those in the security field, to participate. The hot topic during the conference was the Crowdstrike disaster that…
If you use the official YouTube TV app without a premium subscription, then you are in for another ad-treat. Google has been testing Pause-Ads on YouTube since April of this year. These ads show up when you hit the pause button, e.g., to get something to drink or go to the bathroom. Now, pausing will…
MetaGer is a privacy-focused search engine that is run by a German non-profit organization. One of its appeals, apart from its focus on privacy, was that you could run searches across multiple search engines. It also included an interesting feature to search within search results, and to maintain a personal blacklist. Up until now, you…
Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro officially today on YouTube during a tech reveal. It pretty much offers what leakers revealed weeks and months ago already. It is a system that is more powerful than the regular PlayStation 5 and supports AI upscaling. I have to admit that I had plans to buy it. I’m…
Super Microsoft Configuration is a new tool by “built by Bel”. It is an “advanced and fully automated alternative to the traditional MSConfig tool” according to the developer. Key Details: The current version of the app has the title Super System Configuration. Whether that is going to be the new name or not is unclear….
Many Windows devices will ship with a new hardware key. The Copilot key is a new key on the keyboard that activates the core AI feature of the operating system when pressed. If that is all it does, it is probably the most useless key on the keyboard. Yes, it is worse than Scroll Lock….
Microsoft OneDrive is a popular file cloud hosting, sharing, and to a degree editing service. This is especially true on Windows, as Windows users who sign in with a Microsoft account have OneDrive automatically. Like any other file hosting service, OneDrive supports the sharing of files. You have a few options there. Notable options include…