Microsoft has launched a public beta of a Windows utility called PC Manager that helps you free up storage space, choose which apps run when you first boot your computer, and offers some basic security features including virus scanning. It also has a “performance booster” that basically frees up RAM… something that Windows does automatically […]
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Lilbits: Intellivision Amico, Rock Pi X, and PinePhone KDE Community Edition
The Intellivision Amico is a new game console with an old name. First announced in 2018, the new console is scheduled to ship in April and gets its name from a classic game system that was first released in 1979. Rather than focus on bleeding edge graphics, the Amico is designed for casual and party […]
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Microsoft ports Sysinternals utilities to run on ARM PCs
Sysinternals has offered a suite of Windows utilities for power users for more than two decades. First developed as an independent suite of apps for managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting Windows, Sysinternals was eventually acquired by Microsoft, which has continued to update and support the tools. Recently the company has also started to expand them to […]
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Gnirehtet reverse tethering app lets your Android phone use your PC’s internet connection
4 Comments on Gnirehtet reverse tethering app lets your Android phone use your PC’s internet connectionMost recent Android smartphones have a built-in tethering feature that allows you to share your phone’s internet connection with a laptop, tablet, or other devices (although not all wireless carriers let you use this feature, and many charge extra for it). But what if you want to share your PC’s internet connection with your phone? That’s where reverse […]
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Microsoft’s all new PowerToys are here (and this time they’re open source)
As promised, Microsoft has revived PowerToys… sort of. The power-user utilities designed for Windows 95 and Windows XP are gone. But Microsoft has launched a new version of PowerToys for Windows 10 users. At launch, there are only two utilities included in the new PowerToys: a Windows key shortcut guide and “FancyZones,” which make it […]
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Microsoft reinvents PowerToys, coming this summer (source code and all)
Microsoft’s PowerToys set of utilities for Windows 95 and Windows XP made it easy users to tweak the operating system by doing things like adding feature to context menus, upgrading the Alt+Tab task switcher window, synchronizing files and folders, opening Command Prompts from Windows Explorer, and much, much more. Most of those features don’t work […]