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Disable Security Messages on Windows 10
The following guide explains how to disable security messages on Windows 10 to prevent popup notifications on the desktop.
Windows 10 monitors security and maintenance related features and settings, antivirus protection and Windows Update for instance, and notifies you if something is not working correctly.
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Agnitio: control Windows with your voice
Agnitio is a free software program for Microsoft Windows computer systems that adds voice commands to the operating system.
If you compare the voice controlled computers of science fiction franchises such as Star Wars or Star Trek with what is possible today, you will notice that voice control has a long way to go to reach those levels of interaction.
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chrlauncher: custom Chromium downloader, updater and launcher
Chrlauncher is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows that lets you download, update, and launch various Chromium versions.
Chromium is the open source part of Google Chrome, and other browsers such as Vivaldi or Opera.
Users who want to try out Chromium run into several issues right from the start. First, when it comes to downloading the latest version of the web browser for their operating system.
Optimize your images with Google’s Guetzli compression algorithm
The following guide walks you through the steps of optimizing jpeg images using Google's new Guetzli compression algorithm.
Google unveiled Guetzli some time ago, a JPEG encoder that promises up to 35% smaller file sizes than achievable with current methods.
Windows Tip: Speed up Disk Cleanup System Files loading
The following tip provides you with information on how to speed up the loading of Disk Cleanup's "clean system files" option on Windows.
Disk Cleanup is a built-in tool on Windows devices that users may utilize to remove temporary data from the operating system.
A Look at Desktop Environments: KDE 5 Plasma
This time around we will be looking at KDE: powerful, graphically beautiful, and filled with an array of useful software; but the most resource intensive of the major desktop environments.
KDE has always been a weird thing for me, I quite enjoy its almost limitless amount of customizability, the great tools that it comes with, and yet I never seem to stick with it and I have no idea why; I actually couldn’t pinpoint the reason even if I tried, so you can take that as you wish.
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A look at Desktop Environments: MATE
One of the most amazing things about GNU/Linux is it's customizability, both on a deeper system level but also on the surface with various desktop environments and window managers at the users disposal.
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Tab Ninja: better Chrome tab controls
Tab Ninja is a free browser extension for the Google Chrome web browser that gives you better options when it comes to controlling tabs in the browser.
Google made the decision recently to remove certain tab features from the browser. The Close other tabs, and Close tabs to the right options will be removed from Chrome in the near future.
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Exclusive preview of Startpage’s new image search tools
The privacy focused search engine Startpage will launch new image search related tools soon that improve the user experience significantly.
Startpage, just like Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, offers a dedicated image search option that users can make use of.
While you can use web searches to find sites with images as well, using the image search engine returns image results right away.
Here is the first mockup screenshot of Firefox 57’s new design
Mozilla plans to make Firefox 57 a milestone release by introducing major changes to the web browser when the version is released.
We talked about those in the past already; most notable probably is the focus on WebExtensions in Firefox 57. Classic add-ons will stop working at that time, as they are no longer supported in the stable version of the web browser.
TekBits News
- Disable Security Messages on Windows 10
- Agnitio: control Windows with your voice
- chrlauncher: custom Chromium downloader, updater and launcher
- Optimize your images with Google’s Guetzli compression algorithm
- Windows Tip: Speed up Disk Cleanup System Files loading
- A Look at Desktop Environments: KDE 5 Plasma
- A look at Desktop Environments: MATE
- Tab Ninja: better Chrome tab controls
- Exclusive preview of Startpage’s new image search tools
- Here is the first mockup screenshot of Firefox 57’s new design
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