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It’s A Stylus
Today Apple announced the Apple Pencil accessory for the iPad. [Read more…] about It’s A Stylus
Time To Run Windows Update
Updates available for all currently supported versions of Windows, IE and Edge too.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2015
My Printer Setup
I still do freelance computer setups for individuals and small businesses on occasion. With that comes questions about printers and recommendations for printers.
I recommend networked HP printers. That means it has Ethernet and/or wifi.
Why HP? IMHO easy setup, good drivers, full Linux support. My printer is over 8 years old and they have Windows 10 drivers for it.
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Random Weekend Stuff…
It’s a holiday weekend here in U.S. Not much going on in the tech world.
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Bruce Dickinson’s Perfect Answers
I tried social media. There are a number of reasons why I left it but it’s kinda hard to explain well.
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson was interviewed and gave what IMHO are the perfect answers (about 2/3 of the way down).
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Report: Windows 10 Threshold 2 Pushed Back To November
Winbeta is reporting that Win10 TH2 will be released in November and not October as expected.
This is good news / bad news.
It is good news because TH2 is incredibly buggy which I attribute to the new Memory Compression feature. This is simply IMHO. This will give MS time to sort things out.
It is bad news because as I stated before, I will not release thw Win10 tweak guide until TH2. I just don’t want to continually rewrite the guide. Win10 is a perpetually ungraded OS and TH2 is being followed by Redstone in 2016.
Google Chrome 45
“The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 45 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Chrome 45.0.2454.85 contains a number of fixes and improvements.”
Download or update from within the program.
Random Tuesday Stuff…
Free PCmover Express
“Microsoft has partnered with Laplink to provide you with data transfer tools that transfer selected files, folders, and more from an old Windows PC to a new Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 PC.
To get started, download PCmover Express —free for a limited time.”
Never used it. Maybe You or someone you know would find it useful.
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Windows 7 and 8 Spying On You Too?
Ars Technica – Microsoft accused of adding spy features to Windows 7, 8
By now we are all aware that by default Win10 sends a lot of info to Microsoft. Folks have found Windows 7 & 8 are doing it too.
Well, kinda. Let me explain. Microsoft added 2 updates that collect more info.
1 – KB3022345 superseded by KB3068708 superseded by KB3080149 adds the Diagnostics Tracking Service.
2 – KB3075249 seems to monitor UAC prompts (hopefully to make it less annoying)
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