Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana. Voice assistants are more and more popular, though I personally don’t use any of them, maybe with little exception of Siri as I’m an Apple user. To be honest, Apple’s Siri is behind any of main voice assistants. While companies usually add feature after feature, Microsoft will remove some… Read More »
Wunderlist will be shutted down on May 6, 2020, as we informed HERE. This is sad news for all loyal Wunderlist users. I was using Wunderlist too. After acquisition by Microsoft, I was finding new task manager. I tried Omnifocus, Todoist and some others and I have finally chosen Things 3. Microsoft’s To-Do was evolving slowly and it… Read More »
If you want a smartphone, you have usually only two operating systems to choose from – Android and iOS. It’s shame what did Microsoft with its Windows 10 Mobile. I’m former user of Lumia smartphone and I liked Windows 10 Mobile. Though my heart belongs to Apple, Windows 10 Mobile was very good operating system, I liked it… Read More »
Windows 7 is still popular. One of the reason are bugs in Windows 10. Forced updates, that may break your PC or reset your settings or replace drivers are big issue. Also there was a bug which caused to remove your files from OneDrive if few conditions were met. Also, looking at “installing 13 of 37 updates” when… Read More »
I remember Wunderlist as my first third-party to-do manager. I’m former blogger writing for one slovak Apple blog and we were using Wunderlist there. Good design and team collaboration where just terrific. When Microsoft announced it has acquired Wunderlist, it was a warning sign. When big company acquires popular service, it usually means that company is working on… Read More »
Some users can’t learn from their own mistakes. Many users are using weak passwords and passcodes, often using common words or passwords like “12345” or year of birth as 4-numbered passcode on their mobile phone. Microsoft checked more than 3 000 000 000 leached login credentials from various sources, like public leaked databases or databases from criminal acts.… Read More »
As we informed HERE, Microsoft decided to distribute Notepad via Microsoft Store, outside of Windows 10 releases. It made sense, Notepad could be updated outside Windows 10’s release cycles and Microsoft could deal with bugs more swiftly. In August 2019, Microsoft described Notepad as “well-loved text editor in Windows for over 30 years”. But now, company pulled Notepad… Read More »
In short, ransomware is a malicious software, which installs itself on victim’s computer and then, or after some time to mask its presence, it begins to encrypt your files. Your files are then encrypted and unusable till you pay ransom to attackers via Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency – and sometimes, attackers won’t send decryption key to unlock your… Read More »
Probably the most known Windows software from Apple is iTunes. If you ever owned iPhone, iPad or any iPod and you were Windows user, iTunes software was must-have, because there were no other ways how to sync music (though iOS-based devices could bypass this by 3rd party music players) and to update your devices, when over-the-air updates were… Read More »
As you may know, if you are regular reader of this blog, I’m an Apple user, but as my office solution, I prefer solution from Microsoft. Unlike Office 2011, which is, by the way, no longer supported on macOS Catalina, the current apps from Office 365 for Mac are great. Mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint are… Read More »
I was fan of classic dumbphones, till before few years I got my first smartphone – Nokia Lumia 640. Before I definitely moved to iPhone, I was also using some Android smartphones. My Lumia was lucky model, because I got Windows Mobile 10 and all of its updates. Problem with Windows Phone based smartphones was fact, that many… Read More »
CCleaner is a legendary software. I was using it too on Windows XP and Windows 7, till I moved completely to macOS from Apple. This cleaning app includes many advanced features and in wrong or unexperienced hands it could cause serious damage to system. Also in the past, servers of CCleaner’s developers were hacked and it spread a… Read More »
