Sprint is joining the top three carriers in throttling unfair users exceeding 23 GB data per month. This they maintain is to maintain optimal usage of cell sites for all users. This is because (they maintain) the quality of service declines at particular sites – so, the throttling will involve connection speeds at these sites until congestion clears. The optimization will be calculated every 20 milliseconds. Sprint maintains that the 23 GB standard is one held across ...
I didn’t remember his name right off the bat…but I remember what he did. We all do, actually. Ken Taylor, a former Canadian diplomat who sheltered fugitive American Embassy staffers at his Tehran home at great personal risk during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, has died. He was 81. "As Canada’s ambassador to Iran, Taylor played a key role in the rescue mission carried out by the Canadian government and the CIA. Known as the "Canadian Caper," the miss...
The biggest update is that Yahoo Mail will now let you access email from other account providers through the Yahoo Mail app. Users will now be able to connect mail accounts from Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL to Yahoo Mail. BUT…not to Gmail. As for passwords, Yahoo vice president of product Dylan Casey says that passwords and even security questions are an antiquated solution for protecting Web users… “To rectify that broken authentication system, Yahoo is killing...
Infopackets has just published this: “Microsoft has released the next set of updates for Windows 10, including improvements for Skype and Cortana. It's also fixed a problem that was stopping some users from activating their copy as being legitimate. The new set of changes are known as Build 10565 and are now available to people in on the Fast Ring setting of the Insider Program - in other words, those who have signed up to be the first to test any new features or fixe...
My friends frequently post in foreign languages, and the meaning of the text often escapes me. It’s frustrating, because trying to copy the text can be time consuming or, in another alphabet. It’s especially frustrating when the text is part of an image. For that reason, when I saw this in one of my favorite places (gHacks), I jumped on it…it’s small and free, so why not? First off, it’ll appear like a fish on the right of the search box, and will be black if it works on th...
Turns out that during all those Apollo missions astronauts were clicking away like crazy…and a good thing too. After all, how else could we accuse NASA of Photoshopping everything? So, NASA’s uploaded the treasure trove…8,400 pics from Apollo 7-Apollo 17. You can see them here (organized by mission): https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/with/72157659052908231 or here: http://digg.com/2015/apollo-moon-pictures-space-photography or here: h...
“The connection leaks a unique identifier that can be used to retrieve the name and profile photo in plaintext.”- Annoyed MS User The blogger is located in Beijing…and his discovery has been confirmed by Ars Technica. according to Steven Parker at Neowin. “There are really two problems: one being that CIDs get unnecessarily disclosed—in host names, sharing links, etc.—and the other that there are important, potentially personally identifying information about a ...
gHacks published a review of this backup software at the end of September. An excellent review and worth your time if you intend to download the software. You’ll have to leave an email address to get a key to unlock the free version. Not unreasonable. No surprises during installation, according to M. Brinkmann of ghacks, and the free version has all the options available. So, why is there a ‘paid for’ version? From what I can gather from their website, the only diff...
It seems that trial users were positive about the translator preview app released in December 2014, so MS has decided to roll out Skype Translator Magic for Skype Desktop client. This will be happening in the very near future, and will be phased in over a period of weeks…probably not wanting to get swamped by bugs in multiple languages, with different alphabets as well. When it arrives on your desktop, the messenger will gain an icon in the upper right corner: This s...
These are the less expensive versions of Photoshop and Premiere ($99.99 each, bundle for $149.99) have been released (for Mac and Windows) with better selection tools (hair, fur selection much better than in 13) as well as dehaze and shake reduction have also been introduced. This merits a look see, as these are good tools for creating art and for processing your photos. Mac users should be looking at “Affinity” as well. These programs are not part of Adobe's Creativ...
For Cortana and other ‘services’ to work, W10 collects extensive data – personal, included. This is used in an ‘aggregated form’ (supposedly ‘depersonalized’). A user can (with extensive knowledge of W1o’s switches, and how to get at them) theoretically turn them off, but most won’t out of fear/ignorance of how to do it. Ashampoo AntiSpy collects all those settings in one manageable interface where you can configure them as yo...
Not a “I hate facebook” post. This only serves to warn those who after hearing that Mark Zuckerberg (CEO, Facebook) intends to implement a new ‘dislike’ button about a scam already claiming victims. This one offers you the new button, but: “Facebook posts promising users that they will get the 'dislike' button early have made the rounds on the site. The post further states that it is currently an 'invite only' system. The scam also contains links, that when cli...
Your browser isn’t “your” browser. You use it on the software company’s terms and conditions. The same for every piece of software on your computer. You don’t expect your security software to be spying on you, right? seems contradictory, no? Well, guess again. The name of the game is big data. MS, Apple, Banks…you name it. For some reason though, I never expected security software to do it. But it does. AVG has updated its EULA (something e...
Lots of good stuff if you’re interested in learning photography…or greatly improving skills in selected areas. Check out the schedule here: https://www.creativelive.com/conference/photo-week-2015#schedule there are reruns if you have to miss the live class, or if you like it and want to spend more time on things, buy it and you have anytime, anywhere access. Great instructors, great subjects…free. What’s not to like? Starts on Monday, 9/21...
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“Pale Moon is one of the most popular alternative browsers available. Having access to Firefox extensions, Firefox compatibility, and a pre-Australis interface without telemetry being transmitted in the background are just some of the reasons why people have chosen to use Pale Moon.” – Innuendo, donationcoder.com Well…bad news first: good old captainmoonlight sent me this as he’s a devoted Pale Moon user. Unfortunately, Mozilla has decided to ...