Aegis is a superb little app that is able to block the telemetry and data collection features in Windows 7 and 8. It can also disable Windows 10 update requests and alters the Windows system settings to disable certain data collection functions. Aegis is a non-interactive Windows script, which once run on Windows 8 and 7, will alter the sy...
That’s right, adblocking may be coming to Redmond’s flagship browser in the next scheduled release for its Internet Explorer replacement.
If it happens, Microsoft will become another high profile tech firm that allows for adblocking software as standard.
This new feature for Edge would mean that web users would no longer need the 3rd party extension AdBlock or AdBlock Plus, and would further annoy and concern publishers and website owners that rely on the revenue from online ads to survive.
Despite the fact that Google and Google’s Chrome browser is the world’s preferred way to surf the web, Microsoft still have a substantial subset proportion of the market, especially among enterprise users. According to Microsoft themselves, there are currently over 200 million devices running Windows 1o worldwide, and that number is growing. And of course, the Edge browser comes as standard with Windows 1o, whether users choose to use Bing or Google to do their surfing.
News of feature has spread quickly after Cotton spotted the new extension at a Microsoft Build conference, called “What’s Next for Microsoft’s New Browser,” – in one slide that seemed to show the next version of Edge would include adblocking capability when it is released.
While adblocking was for many years primarily only of benefit mainly to the tech heads of the world, in recent times, it has become much more popular among users.
The growth in adblocking has risen greatly in the last few years. Toward the end of last year, Apple, brought the concept to most its ‘i’ users by allowing its latest version of its own browser, Safari, to carry third party adblockers.
In January of this year, a Mozilla Co-Founder, launched Brave, a web browser that came with adblocking built in and turned on as standard.
Apple’s entry to the adblocking world came as no surprise to many, as it still makes the majority of its profits from hardware sales, while Mozilla and its creators have always had a fairly egalitarian approach to the web. Unsurprisingly, Google, who rely on advertising for more than 90% of its revenue, has not released plans for its own built in adblocking software.
As Mr. Bott notes at the bottom of his article:
“It remains to be seen how the new ad-blocking features will work. But with new features expected to arrive in Windows 10 preview builds in the coming weeks, we probably will know soon.”
Time will tell.
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MediaInfo provides you with a quick access to the inner values of your audio and video files. Whether you want to glance at the set-up of tracks included in a file or you want to know all the precise details about the codecs used, MediaInfo will offer the suitable view. You can choose between a graphical user interface to quickly select the appr...
One of the best innovations in the connected internet revolution has got to be the way that companies can tap into the greatest workforce possible, regardless of geography. Telecommuting is allowing even the smallest startup to reach team members literally anywhere around the planet, giving them a manpower edge that many new companies didn’t have even ten years ago.
But whether a company’s team works together in the same office or is scattered across three continents and eight different time zones, there is a fundamental problem with any group effort: real-time, secure communication.
That’s where the rise in popularity in collaborative software comes in, and one of the names at the forefront is Asana. Founded by two well-known names in digital engineering–one of them a co-founder of Facebook–Asana was named one of the top twenty collaborative software options by business software group Capterra, and has already grabbed some major name customers like Zappos, Facebook, Groupon, and more.
How many more? Around 13,000 different paying subscribers, all connecting on projects ranging from the frivolous to the closely guarded game changer.
In a recent blog post, the founders explained why their focus on a streamlined workflow product was so crucial: because there wasn’t anything reliably useful when they needed it in previous jobs:
“Asana has been our attempt to solve the pain of work about work, letting organizations easily achieve their goals, or take on bigger ones. We call that solution ‘work tracking,’ software that manages who’s responsible for what by when, and generally serves as the source of truth for everything a team is working on. We—now a team of 186 people—have collectively invested so much love and hard work into this attempt, it’s hard to articulate how gratifying it feels to step back and see that it’s actually…working.”
One goal for the new investment series is to work on creating a “bigger is better” version of the current application. While most people think of a narrowly focused team working through software like Asana, the company already has several large-base clients with very broad needs. Zappos uses the software across its entire company, not just within one group, like product development. An article on Asana’s recent Series C investment also cited city governments that are using Asana to replace the old inter-office email system, meaning the entire city workforce is connected through this software.
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Last year, Google introduced a search feature that enabled users to effortlessly save images and organize them based on tags on mobiles. Now, the company has finally, announced that it will be coming to the desktop making it much more productive if you’re using it for some project. Just go to “google.com.save” and start saving images.
Google Save is currently limited to the US, although a global rollout is expected in the near future. Past the roll out, once you click a picture in Google’s results, there are will be an extra “Save” button along with the traditional “Visit Page” and “View image” options. All your saved images will be collected on Google Save website which is basically a simplified interface of Google Photos with the much-admired search box. As you can tell this new addition is almost similar to what Pinterest offers.
You can sort your images into tags which will be presented in the “Tags” page of the website as albums. Users have the ability to edit a photo’s title, add notes and also, there will be a link attached to the original page if you would like to visit it again. Neat. Lastly, there’s an option to select, tag and delete files in bulk.
Saving images and assembling them straight away from a unified platform will definitely succour a lot of users who rely on Google Images for projects or any other jobs. It will directly sync with your mobile handheld, hence, you can make use of it anywhere and anytime you need to.
Tags will probably be the highlight for the most people out there, you can categorize things like “flowers” if you’re shopping for redoing your backyard or “sofa designs” if you’re redecorating. You can then quickly perform a search to locate the desired image or add notes to get a clear perspective when you reopen the website again.
Going forward, we think the Google Save will be integrated with Google Keep and it will pose a bigger challenge to Evernote. Nonetheless, Google’s machine learning system can now learn more about the images from user’s tags and present better results in Google Photos.
Source – Inside Search
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