Posts Tagged ‘Apps’
Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Getting used to a new operating system is seldom a fun experience … and problems like this definitely don’t help.
Windows 10 ships with a truckload of system applications that are installed by default. Most of those are created and maintained by Microsoft. Some replace functionality of legacy programs of previous versions of Windows, others are unique to Windows 10. If you go through the listing of installed system apps, you may notice one or the other that you don’t use. 3D Builder is probably a prime example of this. Not only is the app only of use if you work with 3D models and 3D printing, it is also one of the first apps listed in the new Windows 10 start menu.
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Tags: Apps, re-install, update, Windows 10
Posted in General News | Comments Off on Windows 10 Annoyance: Apps get Re-Installed After Updates
Friday, April 29th, 2016
Dealing with unresponsive apps on a Windows 10 computer can be pretty frustrating, but fortunately there’s a (somewhat complicated,) trick for removing apps that refuse to respond.
I mentioned previously that stuck apps were being listed in the start menu on recent Windows 10 Insider Builds, and that I had yet to find a way to remove those from it. The applications are listed in the start menu just like any other application, and you can distinguish them easily as they show a “loading bar” underneath them indicating that something is not right.
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Tags: Apps, store cache, stuck, unresponsive, Windows 10
Posted in General News, tech tips | Comments Off on Remove Stuck Windows Apps from Your System
Thursday, February 18th, 2016
Apparently, many users have reported problems with one of the recent patches for Windows 10.
Reports are coming in that the recent patch for Windows 10 with the identifier KB3135173 may reset default applications on systems it is installed on. We have talked about Windows 10 resetting default applications before, the first time happening shortly after release of the operating system.
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Tags: Apps, default, patch, reset, update, Windows 10
Posted in General News, tech tips | Comments Off on Beware, KB3135173 for Windows 10 May Reset Default Apps (Again)
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
I only use a couple of extensions myself so I don’t really need Privacy Guard … but if I ever come to a point where I’m using more than two extensions, I’ll probably check it out.
It is quite difficult to keep an overview over extension and app permissions in the Chrome browser, especially if you have installed several. While you can look up permissions of individual extensions by opening chrome://extensions and clicking on the permissions link next to each extension, it is not really helpful if you want a quick overview of all apps or extensions installed in the browser.
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Tags: Apps, chrome, extensions, google, Privacy Guard
Posted in security, software evaluation | Comments Off on Privacy Guard for Chrome Assigns Risk Categories to Extensions and Apps
Monday, September 16th, 2013
Here’s an Android App that you might want to check out before downloading other Android Apps …
Apps are without doubt one of the core features that helped Google and Apple gain traction in the mobile phone market so quickly. When you browse the Android store nowadays, you get a selection of hundreds of thousands of applications for all kinds of purposes, from gaming to better navigation, social networking or Internet browsing.
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Tags: android, Apps, google, scan, virustotal
Posted in security, software evaluation | Comments Off on Virustotal for Android Scans All Apps for Malicious Contents
Friday, September 6th, 2013
This is surprising; I knew the Apps market was growing like crazy, but I didn’t realize that it was growing this much …
Trade body ACT’s report claims apps will be €11.2bn EU market in 2013, and calls for more support from policymakers for the industry to spur future growth. The growing apps economy has created nearly 800,000 jobs across Europe in the last five years, and will generate €11.2bn in revenues across the region in 2013, according to a report published by industry trade body ACT.
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Tags: Apps, Europe, smart phones, Tablet computers
Posted in General News | Comments Off on Report Claims Apps Economy Accounts for Nearly 800k New Jobs Across EU
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
This seems like it would be very useful for folks who simply want to be able to decide on their own when they need an update and when they don’t …
Automatic updates are convenient, as you do not have to handle the updating process of applications manually. Instead of having to stay in the loop, to know when updates become available, to download and install them when that happens, the process is handled by the software automatically instead.
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Tags: Apps, automatic updates, Update Freezer, windows
Posted in software evaluation | Comments Off on Update Freezer – Control Automatic Updates of Popular Apps on Windows
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
Here’s a handy trick for getting rid of unwanted apps in Windows 8 …
Apps are clearly a focus on Windows 8, not only because the operating system boots into the “apps-interface” on startup by default, but because most of the marketing for the operating system puts it in focus as well. That’s however just one side of Windows 8, and I’m not entirely sure if concentrating all efforts on those features is the smartest move by Microsoft.
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Tags: Apps, microsoft, PowerShell, windows 8
Posted in tech tips | Comments Off on How to Remove All Windows 8 Apps Using PowerShell
Friday, August 9th, 2013
It’s always seemed to me that Google could do a whole lot more with the New Tab page to make it more useful and accessible … unfortunately, this article makes it sounds like Google needs to try again.
Google popularized the “New Tab page” with its Chrome web browser, a feature that Firefox has also adopted. The Chrome version has many cool features, such as your most viewed web pages, a Google search box, access to the Chrome store, apps and the ability to customize the background from an array of images provided in the store. Customers can even use their own images to create a theme, though this requires an app called My Chrome Theme.
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Tags: Apps, chrome, google, My Chrome Theme, new tab page
Posted in software evaluation | Comments Off on Google Rolling Out New Features for New Tab Page
