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For a free photo organization, editing and sharing application, Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 is fairly robust. There’s vast potential for quickly organizing and working with your photos and videos, but you may need to get a sort of workflow going to ensure that all of the requisite attributes, tags and information gets assigned to your items in the most consistent fashion. In order to get the most out of the software, it’s best to familiarize yourself with all of the features....

If you’re part of the Windows 10 Mobile Insider program, you’ve probably had to use this once or twice while testing out the mobile builds…I sure have. In fact, to install Windows 10 Mobile build 10136 you were required to use it to restore your phone to Windows Phone 8.1 first. The name change may seem minor, but has implications of the future. The new name reflects that it’s not just for Windows Phone, but also other devices, like small tablets that will run the Windows 10 mobile OS....

Are you an app developer or mobile user looking at Windows 8? If so, you may want to prepare for a huge decline in free ad-supported apps. In a recent report from ITworld it is said that Microsoft is has pulled out all financial support for in-app advertisements across the platform as of April 1st, 2013. In the report two separate developer forums are cited that indicate ad revenue has taken a severe nosedive and the most likely explanation is Microsoft pulling out all of its Bing advertisements....

What Is It? Apple’s editors consistently pick these puzzle games. Similar to ones we’ve covered in the past, like Blyss and Noodles, your goal here is to solve the puzzle. You move and bend a girder, either moving it to a goal or using it to nudge a ball to the goal. Some rounds remind me of pinball. The game has no in-app purchases and no hints if you get stuck (those hints are often in-app purchases)....

Today we’ll cover three ways to easily add the “always on top” feature to every single program in Windows. 1. Use a Keyboard Shortcut with an Always on Top AutoHotkey Script AutoHotkey is a free program that allows you to create scripts to perform multiple actions with a single keyboard shortcut. It runs in the background and sits in the system tray. We’re going to use AutoHotkey to create a script that will keep a selected window on top of all others when you press Ctrl + Spacebar when that window is active....

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X-Ray pulls up an interactive pop over that displays cast and crew details, via IMDB, of the movie or TV show you’re watching. It allows you to pull up which actors you’re seeing on the screen, other shows an actor has appeared in, and other info from IMDB. It allows you to play some movie and TV show trivia, too. Access X-Ray on Fire TV Pulling up X-Ray on the Fire TV or Fire TV Stick is easy....

Perhaps this is why I found myself particularly annoyed recently when I attended my local Rotary club meeting (rotary.org). The speaker of the day was Patrick Lynch, former Attorney General for the State of Rhode Island and spokesperson for FairSearch.org. On each table was a stack of colorful flyers from FairSearch.org. The flyers had graphs, statistics and quotes, all aimed at exposing Google’s so-called misconduct as the dominant global search engine on the internet....

The news comes days after the BLUETTI AC200 power station was released and months after BLUETTI pulled in $6.7 million from an Indiegogo crowdsourcing campaign. Each of the new products is packed full of features, as you can see below. BLUETTI AC300 Like similar AC series products, the BLUETTI AC300 is a rectangular power box with two solid lifting handles on the top of each side. Interestingly, however, the AC300 doesn’t come with a built-in battery pack....

If you’re new to iOS, check out how to setup an email account. Open Mail and start a new message. Then highlight the the text you want to format by dragging you finger over it. Release the text and the Cut, Copy or Paste menu comes up. Tap the right arrow. The new formatting options will come up. Tap the button with the formatting icons. You can use Bold, Italics, and underline text....

In Windows go to Start » All Programs » Apple Software Update. The Apple Software Update screen appears with two updates. If you don’t have an iPhone you can uncheck that update. Click Install 1 Item. Accept the License Agreement. Then the update downloads and installs. Success! Safari is now up to date with version 5.1.1 – Click OK. With iCloud support, you can sync Safari Bookmarks and Reader articles between your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac and PC....

Stop All Website Notification Requests While you could go through a series of menus, here is the easiest way to get to the Notification settings you need to manage. Open Chrome and type: chrome://settings/content/notifications into the address bar and hit Enter. Then flip off the “Ask before sending” switch and close out of Settings. That’s all there is to it. Restart the browser, and now, moving forward, when you visit a page that wants to pop up a notification request, it will simply be rejected by default and you won’t see the pop up at all....

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From the menu bar click Edit » Preferences. On a Mac, go to iTunes » Preferences. The Preferences window comes up. Click the Advanced icon and next to the iTunes Media Folder Location field click Change. Now select the location you want to make the new library location. Here I’m selecting the music folder from my home server. But you can select any location you want. Now any media I buy from the iTunes store will be places in the network location....

Pre-Schoolers It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Disney Plus targets kids under the age of five. With this regard, you can create Disney Plus profiles that limit content for its younger viewers. Much of this content focuses on Mickey Mouse and friends, Disney princesses, cartoon-based superheroes, and animals/nature. Video content from Disney Junior is also here. Iconic Characters Mickey Mouse is one of the biggest stars on Disney Plus, with movies, series, and shorts featuring the world’s No....

What Is It? This game is a Tetris-style pattern-matching game. Match the colors, and you’ll take out a row. Domino drop adds a few twists, like having to match a square of four blank pieces. You can’t twist the pieces, so you just have to play the domino you’re dealt. When you get the hang of it, you can change the game by going into the Tails or Pro mode. Those extra levels are included: no in-app purchase is needed....

How It Works Start by downloading the Google Opinion Rewards app. Once installed, the app will send you push notification whenever a survey is available. Completing a survey is easy, and most surveys are rarely longer than five quick questions. At the end of each survey, you’ll be rewarded with some Google Play credit. It might not seem like a lot, but in my eyes £0.18 ($0.23) is pretty decent considering you can sometimes get more than one survey per day....

YouTube Lean Back incorporates a new feed or “stream” of videos that is generated using your Favorites, Subscriptions, Recently Viewed, Friend Shares, Related Videos, and other content introduced on YouTube. From these sources, YouTube creates an endless flow of videos for hours of entertainment. Below is a screenshot example of what a feed might look like, you’ll also notice that there are category buttons below the stream where you can select a particular genre of video that meets your current mood....

Find Installed Apps on Windows 8.1 Note that this article has been updated to show how to find all installed apps on Windows 8.1, which is a much easier process. While the instruction for Windows 8 is still the same, since Microsoft update the OS to Windows 8.1, finding all of your apps has become much easier. From the Modern Start screen, simply click the down arrow button, or if you’re on a touch screen, swipe from the bottom up....