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Facebook announced yesterday that they plan to start placing fewer text-only posts from Facebook pages into the newsfeeds of the users who have “Liked” the pages.
This change will effectively limit the reach of a given page’s posts even further than the already diminished reach due to the rather unpopular EdgeRank algorithm. [Read more…]
If you use the free version of LogMeIn, you’ll have to start paying if you want to keep using it. The popular remote desktop service has now dropped the free access plan that was so popular for so long.
Existing users of LogMeIn Free have 7 days to sign up and pay a discounted yearly fee that starts at $49, but new customers will be required to pay $99 a year.
If you’d rather not pay to use a remote desktop service, there are still several options available to you. Just click the links below to check them out and see what will work best for you: [Read more…]
By now you’re probably aware that Microsoft is planning to stop supporting Windows XP with security updates on April 8, effectively leaving the millions of computers that are still running it after that date wide open to hackers.
What you probably don’t know is that approximately 95% of the 420,000 ATMs currently being used in the U.S. are running Windows XP!
While a large percentage of those Windows XP-based ATMs can be updated with newer hardware components that will allow them to be upgraded to Windows 7, many of them will simply have to be replaced outright.
But there’s a problem… [Read more…]
Since we now know that Microsoft is planning to scuttle the Windows 8 brand sooner than usual by releasing Windows 9 sometime in 2015, I think it’s safe to assume that they have learned a few lessons from the Windows 8 debacle. Well, at least one can hope.
While Windows 8.1 is a vast improvement over Windows 8, many irritants still remain that tend to frustrate seasoned Windows users.
Here are just a few of the lessons that Microsoft surely must have learned by now: [Read more…]
The guys and gals at Microsoft won’t tell you this, but it appears that they’ve grown weary of trying to rehabilitate the miserable reputation of Windows 8. And I believe in hindsight they know that miserable reputation was well-earned.
According to reports coming out of Redmond, Microsoft is planning to announce Windows 9 during the Build 2014 developer conference that’s coming up in April. [Read more…]