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"Clever tabs" will be hitting the Insider Program soon... but not for everybody.  (Microsoft Video) The basics of window management in Windows haven't really changed a whole lot since the days of Windows 3. You can maximize windows to make them take up a whole monitor or you can have them free-floating and arbitrarily sized—that's about it. macOS gives maximized windows a slight twist with its full-screen view, and Windows 7 introduced Aero Snap, a way to get two windows side by side, each occupying exactly half the screen (later extended to divide the screen into quadrants, for four windows at a time). While these are both compelling features, the basics still haven't really changed for decades. But one kind of application has long stood out as an exception: the browser. Browsers add a second dimension to window management through their use of tabs. While browsers probably weren't the first, and certainly aren't the only, apps to have tabs, they&#

The latest version of Apple’s software has a glaring hole in it: You can log in with just the username "root." It turns out you don't need a password to log in to a locked Apple device using MacOS High Sierra -- just the username "root." By heading to your device's System Preferences, under Users & Groups, you can click on the lock and get hit with a prompt asking for a username and password to change settings. Then, instead of entering a password, you can type in "root" for the username and leave the password field empty. Demonstration After clicking unlock several times, it should eventually open up, no passwords necessary. Lemi Orhan Ergin, the founder of Software Craftsmanship Turkey, discovered the security flaw and tweeted it out to Apple Support on Tuesday. "We are working on a software update to address this issue," an Apple spokesperson said. "In the meantime, setting a root password prevents unauth

Say, you want to test your anti-virus program on your PC. Using real viruses for testing in the real world is rather like setting fire to the dustbin in your office to see whether the smoke detector is working. Such a test will give meaningful results, but with unappealing, unacceptable risks. Since it is unacceptable for you to send out real viruses for test or demonstration purposes, you need a file that can safely be passed around and which is obviously non-viral, but which your anti-virus software will react to as if it were a virus. The good news is that such a test file already exists. A number of anti-virus researchers have already worked together to produce a file that their (and many other) products "detect" as if it were a virus. It's called EICAR.COM anti malware testfile. It is also short and simple - in fact, it consists entirely of printable ASCII characters, so that it can easily be created with a regular text editor. So, without any further ado,

A message telling users to "upgrade their services" has gone viral on popular social instant messaging platform WhatsApp. As you can clearly see the actual URL of the site is http://upgrademyjioservice.blogspot.in/, just a blog , which is not associated with Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited in anyway. And at the bottom of the message, you can see the hood-winker has used URL shortening service TINYCC  to beguile people. On clicking the link you will land on the blog Looking at the address bar, it's a Blogspot site. It will tell you to download an app (in APK) and install it. And mark the unnecessary permissions required for the app too. Think about it. If it's really from Jio and an official offer, then why wouldn't it be in Play Store? Why wouldn't it not be advertised on MyJio app? MyJio is the self-care application by Jio facilitating  users to manage their Jio Account and Digital Services associated with it. Why wouldn't it be

Gaming Laptops are no joke. They pack some serious performance under the hood that even some mid-range desktops cannot match. They’re often considered as huge, heavy and fat machines with red and blue paint all over their chassis, but that’s not the case at present. Over the past few years, manufacturers have introduced laptops packing more and more power in a thinner and lighter chassis. If you take a look at a gaming laptop from ten years ago and compare to anything from the present, I can guarantee that your jaw will drop and you’ll start wondering how technology has improved over the decade. Here are the top 10 performance grade laptops to make your selection from. 1. ASUS ROG G701VI Gaming Laptop  Unlocked Intel i7-7820HK processor 64GB of DDR4 RAM (yes, you read that right!) 1 TB NVMe SSD Overclockable GTX 1080 desktop class graphics card 17.3-inch 120Hz Full HD IPS panel with NVIDIA G-Sync 2. Alienware 17 R4 Intel i7-7820HK processor (overclocked up t

Gaming peripheral outfit Razer is launching a smartphone. Yep, just when you thought the year was winding down and tech reviewers could finally take a breather, this newcomer to the smartphone race has thrown its hat into the ring for the first time: hello, Razer Phone. Razer Inc. (stylized as RΛZΞR), is a Singaporean gaming hardware company founded by Min-Liang Tan and Robert Krakoff, with headquarters in Singapore and San Francisco. You must have heard about its Razer Blade Pro or Stealth Ultrabook. What you need to know : The Razer Phone's core specifications are quietly impressive. There's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor inside, complete with 8GB of RAM and 64GB of storage that’s expandable by up to 1TB via microSD. Keeping things running is a massive 4,000mAh battery. It comes with Nougat 7.1.1. On the front is a 5.7in 120Hz 1,440 x 2,560 IGZO LCD display, complete with a pair of 12-megapixel cameras on the back. One is an f/1.7 wide-angle unit; t

The  OnePlus   5 is a  great   smartphone . It's one of my favourite phones in  2017. But it's far from perfect in 2017. when the world is moving to bezel less design. Seeing the OnePlus 5T coming , looking at it it seems the perfect phone for this year. Wondering how? Let me tell you.. The upcoming oneplus falgship is the perfect smartphone. There a many great phones out there.  But each of them has at least one flaw. The OnePlus 5 doesn't have a bezel less display,  Galaxy S8 doesn't have a dual camera, S8 note is too big. the iPhone 8 and Pixel 2 have huge bezels. Pixel 2 XL has display issues. The iPhone X comes at a price which is out of reach for many. im not knit picking. theres are the some of the bt phones out there. and chjossing one , you will compromise something//. and here comes the perfect phone, the OnePlus 5T seems to have ALL OF 'EM. The one thing OnePlus 5 was missing the bezel less display is coming to the 5T. With 18:9 aspect rati

First of all let me tell you that the title of this article should be "How to download files from Dropbox  and Google Drive using IDM or any other download manager ?" Ever wondered if you could download gigantic files with pause and resume support with your favorite download manager. Generally, download managers can't do that because they have not cookies, unlike browsers. But as you know, there's always a way. Downloading drom Dropbox: 1. Mark the address bar. 2.Copy the URL to the clipboard. 3. Add the URL to your download manager (Here I'm using Tonec IDM). You should seethe link starting with " https://www.. ." 4. Replace that with "dl", viz. your link " https://www .dropbox.com/s/3fo8409jtcfz1nh/Adobe%20Dreamweaver%20CC%202015_x64bit.rar?dl=0" will be now  " dl ..dropbox.com/s/3fo8409jtcfz1nh/Adobe%20Dreamweaver%20CC%202015_x64bit.rar?dl=0" 5. Finally start the download and

After a plethora of strange bugs found in iOS 11 like making media playback stutter , breaking audio control on the lock screen , and  autocorrecting the word "I" to an unrecognizable character , now the Calculator app has come with its super weirdo embarrassing bugs. For many users, the Calculator app on iOS 11.1 is so slow that it doesn't take button presses properly. For example, as tech blog Select All points out , if you type 1+2+3=, your answer will be 24, not 6. That's because the calculator doesn't register the + fast enough, so it reads your input as 1+23. To avoid this in Calculator, you have to type very slowly. So, dont use it. Until Apple fixes this, try other calculator apps instead.

After a brief trial, Twitter is officially rolling out 280-character tweets to everyone starting today. You should be able to tweet out double the amount starting now using both Twitter's website as well as its mobile app. Twitter originally test-drove the feature with a small group of users this September. During the trial, it was looking to see how the longer tweet length affected how and when people tweeted. In a blog post announcing the update , Product Manager Aliza Rosen commented that the goal was to give people more characters to tweet with while ensuring that it kept the "speed and brevity that makes Twitter, Twitter." After looking at the data, it found that even people who had the 280-character limit more often than not still tweeted under 140 characters. The longer length was only used when it was needed, and according to Twitter, made people tweet more easily and more often. "Only 5% of Tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only 2% w

There are ads everywhere. The Internet is not the same as it was some years ago. AdChoices is a self-regulatory program for online internet-based advertising that exists in the United States, Canada and across Europe. The program calls for advertising companies to establish and enforce responsible privacy practices for interest-based advertising, aimed to give consumers enhanced transparency and control. Companies adhere to a set of principles that are enforced by accountability programs. So, there we go. Let's dig into it. When you're seeing any ad just click on the AdChoices icon to get to your settings. Or alternatively you can directly goto the site of YourAdChoices . AdChoices Logo On the home page, head over to Control. Now select  Visit the Consumer Choice Page It will redirect you to WebChoices . Then follow the steps in the wizard. It will take some time and show you the results. Then hit Continue. Opt-out the ones you want or