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HotPrints recently announced a new deal that allows users to create custom photo books for absolutely free through their service. Not only is the service free but HotPrints will also print, assemble, and ship the book to your house for free too. Typically, this service would run you around $2.99 per photo book plus $.80 or so for shipping (still not bad.) However Free is Free which is why I wanted to make sure all you groovy readers heard about it!...

Mouse without Borders As well as being a virtual KVM switch, there’s also a setting that sets the Logon Screen background as the Bing image of the day. For more on its main function, check out our article on the full details of Mouse without Borders. To make the Bing image your Lock Screen background, right click the Mouse without Borders icon on the system tray and go to Personalize Logon Screen > Bing....

Set Snagit to Print Screen The first thing to do is to go into the Snagit Print settings and make sure it’s going to the right device. To do this, click the Output menu and select Properties. Go to the Print tab and then double-check the settings and make sure the printer is set up correctly. Next, there’re the capture/input settings. The basic way of doing this would be to set it to Full Screen....

Note: This tip requires you to make a change to the Windows Registry. Before making any changes, be sure to back it up first! To make all users show up at once, go into the Registry and navigate to the following: Then change from 0 to 1 click OK and close out of the Registry. Now the next time any of the users restart or power on your Windows 8 computer, all user profiles will show up....

Here you can see the default location for Windows Explorer opens to Libraries. Change Open Location in Windows 8 To make Windows Explorer open to a more useful location for your needs, right click the Win Explorer icon on the Taskbar. Then right click File Explorer and select Properties. The File Explorer Properties window opens in the shortcut tab. In the Target field, you’ll see it’s set to open in Libraries, and you can change that....

YouTube Disco YouTube has an experimental page that will let you find and playback music quickly. The YouTube Music Discovery Project or YouTube Disco is one of them. Go to the site, type in a band or artist you want to hear and click Disco. It also lists a top 100 and trending bands and artists. At the bottom of the screen is a playlist where you can select different videos....

The Microsoft Download Manager is a tiny utility that might not be the best download manager out there, but it’s free, hardly uses any system resources, and it gets the job done. There isn’t much to say, the program is pretty straight forward, and since they just updated it to version 1.2 I thought it was worth a mention. What is a download manager? Typically, a download manager is a program that you can use to resume downloads in the case that you lose the connection or for some reason the download is interrupted....

If you’re still running the version 1151, you’ll want to make sure to get this latest update as it also includes several security updates. This security update includes improvements and fixes in the functionality of Windows 10 Version 1511. It also resolves the following vulnerabilities in Windows: 3177356 MS16-095: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer: August 9, 20163177358 MS16-096: Cumulative security update for Microsoft Edge: August 9, 20163177393 MS16-097: Security update for Microsoft graphics component: August 9, 20163178466 MS16-098: Security update for kernel mode drivers: August 9, 20163178465 MS16-101: Security update for Windows authentication methods: August 9, 20163182248 MS16-102: Security update for Microsoft Windows PDF library: August 9, 20163182332 MS16-103: Security update for ActiveSyncProvider: August 9, 2016...

The Groove Music service has come a long way since the Windows 8.1 days when it was branded as Xbox Music (which was a mess). It lets you easily import your iTunes playlists, download songs to multiple devices, and upload music to OneDrive and play it back. 4 Months of Free Groove Music Pass While you can add your own music collection to Groove Music, a subscription allows you to stream from a library of millions of songs....

Windows 10 1803 Cumulative Update KB4458469 There are no new features in this update but there is a healthy amount of improvements and fixes. Here is the list of changes in today’s update: Addresses an issue that causes the prompt “You’ll need a new app to open” to appear. This occurs when reloading a website on a non-standard port by pressing Enter .Addresses an issue that causes downloads to fail because Mark of the Web (MOTW) isn’t supported at the download location....

Via Microsoft Information about the script is light on details, but as earlier suspected; the issue is related to the bundled XBOX app, which according to the Update History page, KB3194496 includes a fix that addresses: An accompanying KB article, KB3197794, should provide more details, but is currently unavailable at this time. There is no indication of how widespread the issue became, but taking into consideration the 36-page discussion thread on the Microsoft Community; a whole lot of users were affected....

You might remember seeing the game creator in action at the Kodu demo at CES 2009, during which Sparrow, a 12-year old girl, whooped Microsoft Entertainment and Devices honcho Robbie Bach at a game of her own creation. Early previews of Kodu have elicited numerous comparison’s to Sony’s LittleBigPlanet, which easily sets the bar for user-generated levels and communities. But Kodu’s origins and overall scope and purpose are a bit different from the highly customizable platformer for the Playstation 3....

Windows 10 KB4503293 for Windows 10 1903 May 2019 Update This update will bump your build number to 18362.175 and includes the following fixes: Addresses a security vulnerability by intentionally preventing connections between Windows and Bluetooth devices that are not secure and use well-known keys to encrypt connections, including security fobs. If BTHUSB Event 22 in the Event Viewer states, “Your Bluetooth device attempted to establish a debug connection….”, then your system is affected....

Windows 10 1803 Cumulative Update KB4346783 Here is a look at the improvements and fixes to expect in today’s cumulative update for Windows 10 1803: Addresses an issue in Microsoft Foundation Class applications that may cause applications to flicker.Addresses an issue where touch and mouse events were handled differently in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications that have a transparent overlay window.Addresses a reliability issue in applications that have extensive window nesting....

Outlook.com for Android Download the Outlook.com app from Google Play. After it’s installed, your prompted to enter in your @outlook, @live or @hotmail email address and password. Then you can enter in a nickname for the account and set how much email you want to see on the device. Then choose your Sync settings for Contacts and Calendar. Of course you can set up multiple Outlook.com email addresses – including @hotmail and @live....

Windows 10 Insider Build 20190 This build includes a new post-update experience: Here is the list of fixes included in today’s new build: We fixed a Windows Subsystem for Linux 1 related error that would output: ‘The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request’. Please see this Github issue for details.We fixed an issue that could result in explorer.exe being unresponsive on touch-capable devices after resuming from hibernation....

Note: Starting with this build, Insiders in the Dev Channel have the option to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. They will be offered as an optional update for “seekers” who manually go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and check for new builds. Starting today seekers can install build 21277. Here is what Microsoft says regarding the announcement: Windows 10 Build 20277 Here is the list of fixes contained in today’s release: Insiders who choose to stay put will continue to automatically get builds from the FE_RELEASE until we move all Insiders in the Dev Channel to receiving RS_PRERELEASE builds sometime after the holidays....

Windows 10 Build 21382 HDR mode changes the behavior of some creative and artistic apps that use ICC display color profiles like Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, CorelDraw, and others. To find it, right-click an app and select Properties > Compatibility > Use legacy display ICC color management. Other changes and improvements include the following: As some Insiders have noticed, Device Manager now has the ability to view drivers alongside of devices. The new driver focused “Devices by drivers”, “Drivers by type”, and “Drivers by devices” views enable users to view, install, and remove drivers, while the new “Add drivers” action enables users to add and install new drivers across all applicable devices....

Today, Microsoft published a Knowledge Base article (KB3095675) with information about the changes in the Windows 10 Upgrade Notification. The report details instructions how to manage, schedule, and disable the upgrade. Microsoft Guides Users for Cancelling Automatic Upgrade to Windows 10 We have already covered some of the information discussed in the article, which describes how to use the Get Windows 10 app (GWX) itself to disable the upgrade. Since then, modifications have been made to GWX, and it is more verbose about when it will happen....

It’s some pretty obvious product placement, and you get to see and hear the already worn out and tired tablet to keyboard “click”. If you don’t know about the “click” take a look at the first Surface TV ad that ran a few weeks ago. The scene also shows off the tablet’s kickstand, logging in with Touch Gestures, and one incredible Los Angeles electrical grid app that you won’t find in the Windows Store....