If you find yourself with 10 or more tabs open in your browser when you’re working or doing research online, there’s an easy way to organize them by using pinned tabs. The steps are the same for Chrome and for Firefox. First, open a tab in your browser and go to whatever website you want to keep open. Once you’ve got your tab open to the website you need, right-click on the tab and select Pin Tab. Your tab will shrink in size and move to the left side of your browser window.
If OnLive can deliver games over your cable broadband, why not your cable provider itself? That appears to be the logic that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable service provider, is using, according to a According to Reuters, five sources say that the program will be launched soon, after two years of testing. Many more details of that test were unveiled last year by
Organisations are wasting money licensing Microsoft Office applications that the majority of employees barely use, a study released this week by application analytics The firm carried out a 3-month analysis of Office suite use in 51 global firms representing 148,500 employees, revealing that seven out of ten employees weren’t using any single application heavily, launching them only for viewing or light editing. The average employee spent only 48 minutes per day using Office, largely the Outlook email client, which consumed about 68 percent of that activity. Excel was in second place with 17 percent, or an average of 8 minutes per day, leaving Word and PowerPoint trailing with only 5 minutes and 2 minutes per day each.
I'm exhausted, I'm jet-lagged, and I'm probably on the verge of illness—but nothing can stop games news, and so nothing can stop me from bringing you Missing Pieces. Except, you know, for the weeks where I've missed it. But we can pretend those didn't happen. This week brings new beginnings: A second Disney Infinity, a revamped BioShock, and the Xbox going where no console has legally gone in a very long time. Here's all the game news fit to print for the week of April 28. For a game called Disney Infinity, it's interesting how few traditional Disney characters are available. The streak continues with
But it's not enough for CCP anymore. "When we started, two expansions per year was fast," said Andie Nordgren, senior producer of EVE Online. In this age of early access and constant updates, however, two expansions per year is relatively slow. And for CCP, two expansions per year is problematic. Rather than push new features when they're done, teams are pressured to meet expansion deadlines—otherwise their features won't ship for six months. "This makes people conservative," said Nordgren.
Yahoo is watching you, whether you like it or not. Yahoo said this week that the company will stop honoring "Do Not Track" requests made by a user's browser. It will now actively attempt to track your interactions with its site and its content. "Here at Yahoo, we work hard to provide our users with a highly personalized experience," the ironically named "Yahoo Privacy Team" wrote in a
As the saying goes, the You could just hook your smartphone up to your PC every now and again and just transfer them over a USB cable, but ugh, wires. A better alternative is to put the mobile apps you already have on your phone to work. Several can send pictures to your PC automatically, and one can even do it without leaning on the cloud whatsoever.
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian has launched a crowdfunding campaign to let the U.S. Federal Communications Commission know, in a big and bold message, that many Internet users are not happy with the agency’s new net neutrality proposal. Ohanian’s Wheeler’s proposal, which would allow broadband providers to engage in some “commercially reasonable” traffic management, would create a pay-for-priority Internet “fast lane” that will leave some entrepreneurs and Internet users behind, Ohanian said in a video accompanying his fundraising proposal.
Leading Bitcoin ATM manufacturer Robocoin is upgrading its network of machines with bank-style features, including the ability to send funds to phone numbers. The Las Vegas-based company, which launched the world’s first Bitcoin ATM in Canada last October, said its ATMs in 13 countries will allow users to buy bitcoin or get cash in 12 currencies easily. It’s billing the new Robocoin Bank as “the fastest way to send cash worldwide.” The ATM services, which will launch this summer, will include the ability to store, access and send bitcoins from any ATM, or “branch,” as the company is now calling them. They can also transfer bitcoin instantly without users having to wait for confirmation on the blockchain, the public ledger of transactions in the cryptocurrency.
The spring press events keep stacking up. Samsung wants to have a serious conversation about health on May 28.
The carrier added 1.3 million subscribers in the first quarter, proving that wireless customers aren't the only people gaining in the ongoing price war among wireless providers.
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Bored by the prospect of slogging through traditional businessy to-do lists? Take heart: Gamification is rapidly transcending the realm of enterprise apps and making its way into your personal productivity tools, adding a healthy layer of quirky fun to the usual lists and checkboxes. The
It’s easy to tune out the rest of the world when you don your headset and start blasting terrorists in a game such as Battlefield 4. Your significant other or your roommates, on the other hand, are all too aware of the fun you’re having. And they’re none too happy about the cacophony of your PC. It’s roaring like a jet engine as its power supply strives to feed the computer’s components enough juice, while its myriad cooling fans spin up mini cyclones to keep the works cool. With a machine like AVADirect’s Quiet Gaming PC,
The attorney general for the state of Washington has filed a lawsuit against a company that raised more than $25,000 on Kickstarter but allegedly didn’t deliver the playing-card deck it promised its crowd-funding investors. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed what’s believed to be the nation’s first consumer-protection lawsuit involving crowd funding on Thursday against Altius Management, a Tennessee entertainment and artist management firm, and owner Edward Polchlepek III, also known as Ed Nash. The company’s
Microsoft's Surface tablets continue to lose money, according to Microsoft filings, a trend that doesn't show any signs of changing. In its The latest Surface revenue numbers were reported earlier by
