Category: software

 No Sound in Gear VR movies

No Sound in Gear VR movies

We had multiple articles about VR technology development and VR goggle finally going into the mass. Now, it’s time to look closer at virtual reality and the problems you might face working with VR goggles.   Intro (you may skip it if you want and move to the section 2 where you find the solution.) […]
Sync Google Drive with your PC

Sync Google Drive with your PC

We have spoken about data safety in previous articles. It is fair to say that keeping files, or at least their backup copies, somewhere on the cloud would be a good idea. Another option that you have is to store documents directly on cloud and let cloud service take care of security and backups. One […]
Group Policy editor in Windows 10 Starter

Group Policy editor in Windows 10 Starter

One of the reasons I chose Windows 10 Pro for me was inability to turn off Windows Defender. It’s not a secret that Windows Defender slows the system a lot by eating up your resources while scanning the system on the background. Lots of users complain that the disk usage rises up to 100% due to the […]
Recover data from crashed Windows with installation media only

Recover data from crashed Windows with installation media only

Windows OS is not ideal and it is not unusual that it may crash in a way that it can no longer boot up. Fixing Windows system in some cases is not an option or requires a lot more efforts and/or money than clean installation. This situation is very common if Windows is rather old […]
Turning Off Windows Ink

Turning Off Windows Ink

Windows Ink is a new Microsoft feature introduced in the Anniversary Update in the August 2016. Windows Ink was intended to become a tool that would make your computer pen as easy to use as pen and paper. Sticky Notes, Scratch Pen, Screen Sketch – Anniversary Update is full of apps that waste your desktop […]
Reasons for slow computer shutdown

Reasons for slow computer shutdown

Many people complain that their computers take a long time to shut down, although machines are still new, and in most cases quite powerful. Usually blaming this problem on the hardware cannot be justified, because the cause of the slow shutdown, as a rule, lies in an incorrect operation of the operating system and does […]
Windows 10: Virtual Desktop

Windows 10: Virtual Desktop

Virtual desktop is an extremely useful and convenient function that some users might remember from Mac or Linux. Microsoft, however, has introduced this feature as a core function only in Windows 10, and looks like this feature is underestimated by multiple users. Today we will take a closer look at Virtual Desktop in Windows 10 hoping to drag your attention to it, […]
How save and open bookmark bundles?

How save and open bookmark bundles?

Let’s say you have a  list of web sites or portals that you open as soon as you start your computer or list of the sites you will open in order to perform some specific task at work. Or the list of pages you check every morning as soon as you wake up: email, news […]
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Every note with Evernote? What alternatives do you have?

Recently, one of the first truly successful startups – notes storage service Evernote – has announced major changes in their tariff plans. I will not try to analyze all possible causes of this event, Evernote has changed the terms of service use many times, but it’s the first time that these changes affect basic functionality. The key innovation here is that […]
What is going on with Skype？

What is going on with Skype？

Today, with the abundance of methods of communication, Skype is a service that is already considered an old school app. At the time of release Skype has been a state of the art technology and quickly attracted a huge number of users, but today new services like Viber and WhatsApp have overtaken and outstripped it in the number of users, and […]