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....

SmartScreen Filter Improvements in Microsoft Edge and IE 11 One of the common attack methods in recent times has been so-called “drive-by downloads” which does not require any user interaction. For instance, when you visit a popular website, a download can be initiated in the background without you even knowing. Many of these drive-by attacks are now beginning to leverage zero-day attacks keeping one step ahead of traditional security technologies such as Anti-virus and Anti-spyware....

Meta’s Reality Labs division reported an operating loss of $3.67 billion for the three months ended 30 September, and losses of $9.44 billion for the preceding nine months. Just two weeks after these troubling Q3 2022 results, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced 11,000 redundancies across all Meta divisions (about 13% of the workforce), citing “the macroeconomic downturn, increased competition, and ads signal loss” and admitting that “I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that”....

The app is called “Memoji” and it has been developed by the same team (Lightricks) who’s responsible for the famous photo-editing tool, Facetune. Memoji’s purpose is quite straightforward, it morphs any picture you upload into animated emojis. Currently, the app comes with 11 emoji options, including heart eyes, sunglasses, horned devil, snorting, blowing kisses, unicorn, and more. Memoji also isn’t particularly limited to selfies, you can point it to any face and its intelligent image-processing technology will do the job for you....

After launching a bunch of Redmi devices over the last one year in India and meeting ravishing success with them, Xiaomi is making a comeback in the upper mid-range premium smartphone market in the country with the release of the Mi Mix 2. The Mix 2 is the costliest handset to date from Xiaomi to be released in India. Q) What are the full specifications of the Mi Mix 2?...

I brought up this issue early when the company started releasing cumulative updates for Windows 10 in my article: Windows 10 Gets New Cumulative Update KB3081455, Should We Know What’s in These? At that time, in response to a Twitter user, Gabe Aul stated: “We don’t do full change lists, it is too tough to manage and doesn’t really add any value.” That response certainly didn’t win over any fans, especially those who control a networked environment....

However, now according to the latest reports, the tech giant Microsoft is now ready to shut down its well-known telecommunications application software, of course, Skype. Microsoft Is Ready To Shut Down Skype We all know very well that the tech giant Microsoft’s Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches. The tech giant Microsoft’s well-known video chat application, of course, Skype is one of the oldest communication platforms....

Optical illusions? The iPad screen on the left is actually bigger Earlier today Microsoft unleashed its second ad in what appears to be a new campaign focusing on directly comparing iPad to Windows 8 tablets side-by-side– not unlike Apple’s own very successful ‘Get a Mac’ campaign. However, it appears that some of Microsoft’s claims are turning out to be quite inaccurate. To go along with the two videos posted to its YouTube channel and currently running on TV, curi....

The truth is that there is still nothing concrete and everything that is known came from rumours. The tech giant Microsoft patents can show you a lot of what it was about to get ready to come up with, and the latest one gives you an indication of a two-screen foldable Surface device. It has already been said earlier this year that the tech giant Microsoft will be preparing a new Surface with a different philosophy and base components that will completely change the market....

Today we have the latest stock ROM flash file for the Meizu M8 Lite based on Android 8.1 Oreo powered by Mediatek processor. To install the firmware flash file, we need a software called SP Flash tool which can be helpful to flash the stock ROM on your device. The method is simple and easy. We have also added video and step by step tutorial to make things easier to flash the official flash file....

For over a year now, Microsoft has been offering Active College/University students from around the globe a steep discount for its flagship product Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate. For US Students, you can grab a copy for $59.95. That’s a 91% discount off Retail. Not bad! 6/16/2010 Update – The program has been updated to include Office 2010. Office 2007 is no longer available. I read about the program way back…but forgot to post the groovyDeal until Microsoft jogged my memory with it’s latest announcement regarding the new Windows 7 Discount for College Students....

Click the down arrow on the right side of the Quick Access Toolbar. Select Commands Not in the Ribbon from the Choose commands from drop-down list. You’ll see a long list of applications and commands you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar. Find Calculator in the list, select it, and click Add. The Calculator is added to the end of the list on the right, which places it on the right end of the Quick Access Toolbar....

Microsoft is getting serious with the Mac today with its new Skype for Business preview for OS X. The new business-focused version of Skype for Mac runs on OS X El Capitan and focuses on creating an enterprise-friendly experience. IT professionals can request access to the new Skype for Business Mac Preview starting today. In addition to taking preview requests from commercial clients, Microsoft says it will begin seeding Skype for Business Mac Preview to IT administrators before opening the preview to more users....

Update details A security vulnerability exits in the way that folder permissions are set in certain Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac 14.2 installations. This update resolves that vulnerability. Improvements that are included in the update The Office for Mac 2011 14.2.3 Update also includes the following improvements: This update fixes an issue where some SkyDrive folders in Micorosft Document Connection are displayed as zero-byte files instead of folders. This update provides critical updates for connection reliability with SkyDrive....

Metro Exodus has officially released its second DLC, called “Sam’s Story,” and its launch trailer certainly paints it as an action-packed adventure. Metro Exodus’s main campaign had no shortage of grisly combat with both humans desperate for survival and monsters created by nuclear radiation, and its masterful world-building across the series has been lauded as some of the most immersive in modern gaming. Following the success of the series’ latest entry and its first expansion, The Two Colonels, the trailer for Sam’s Story implies that 4A Games may still have big plans for the Metro series and its characters....

Here’s a quick cast and character guide for blockbuster sequel Men In Black II. The original Men In Black from 1997 was loosely based on a comic by the same name and featured the surprisingly potent comic chemistry of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. The movie borrowed Ghostbusters’ formula of mixing comedy with some horror and found Smith and Jones as a pair of government agents tasked with taking down alien threats that are hidden from the public....

This fun game from Microsoft called “Are You Certifiable” is a fun way to test your IT knowledge and learn new things at the same time. Best part, it’s free. This game runs in Microsoft Silverlight so you may install it before playing. Once you get started, then things are pretty simple. You can sign in as a guest, but you won’t get full access unless you register a Microsoft Live account....

Update: Surprisingly (to me), this new Excel Live capability is not built on the Fluid service at all, a spokesperson said. Even though Fluid Framework/Fluid Relay is all about super-fast/near real-time coauthoring, Microsoft is enabling the new collaboration in Excel Live in some other unspecified way. Update No. 2: Actually, as I had guessed, Excel Live IS built on the Fluid Framework technology. Glad I double-checked what others were telling other publications....

However, Microsoft has not revealed the list of devices it will unveils at the upcoming event. There are rumors that Surface Duo 2 smartphone and the successor to Surface Book 3 laptop and a refreshed Surface Pro are likely to come. New Surface Hardware Launch Event by Microsoft The Microsoft Surface event is on September 22 at 11 AM ET (8:30pm IST). According to the reports, the software giant will talk about the devices and Windows 11 at the event....

Twitter user @YRH04E shared with us some internal Apple materials that reveal how the company operates those special cars with sensors and the protocols that the Apple Maps team must follow to capture images and other data across the streets. Apple began collecting data using modified vans, but now field operators drive a white Subaru Impreza, which is internally known as “Ulysses.” These vehicles are part of Apple’s 3D Vision team, which is responsible for combining multiple data with computer vision and machine learning technologies to provide 3D images on Apple Maps....