Raspberry Pi is the world's most popular card-sized development board SoC which can handle many Linux distributions. It can be used for a wide range of tasks, from being a personal PC or a media center PC to micro controllers programming or building robots. As of this writing, Raspberry Pi exists in three editions: top Raspberry Pi 2, middle Raspberry Pi B+ and the low end Raspberry Pi A+. If you are interested in Raspberry Pi B+, here is a good news for you - the price for this board is $25.
Windows 10 has many new editions and a new branch-based update model
Microsoft recently announced the various editions Windows 10 will be available in and not only are there many editions but there is a reason why they exist. Microsoft has switched over from the classic operating system model of upgrades to delivering small updates to the existing codebase. Mainstream users will no longer get control over updates as the OS is continuously updated. Windows 10 will have different editions and each edition will be based on a different servicing/updating branch. Let's explore which editions Windows 10 will have and how updates will be delivered to those editions.
Winaero Tweaker 0.2.4 released
Winaero Tweaker reached yet another milestone in its development cycle. Unfortunately, I was not able to maintain the planned weekly release interval, so this version comes a bit late. Here is Winaero Tweaker 0.2.4 with several new features. Let's see what is new.
Disable Pocket integration in Firefox
If you use the beta or Nightly version of Mozilla Firefox, you might have noticed that it now comes with an integrated service called Pocket. Pocket is a third party service which allows you to send the opened page to your Pocket account and read it later from another device such as a tablet or another PC. If you are not happy to see a third party service integrated in your Firefox, here is how to disable the Pocket integration.
Add Desktop Background directly to the Desktop context menu to change wallpaper quickly
With Windows 7 (or rather Windows Vista), Microsoft removed the classic display properties control panel from the Desktop context menu which quickly allowed you to change the desktop wallpaper. The Personalization item replaced it but you have to first open it and then click the Desktop Background item there to get to the page which lets you change the wallpaper. In this article, we will see how to add Desktop Background directly to the Desktop context (right-click) menu.
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Add Desktop Background to Desktop context menu.
A tweak which will add Desktop Background directly to the Desktop context (right-click) menu.
Get the special DRM-free version of the Firefox browser
As you might be knowing, Firefox 38 ships with a proprietary DRM component from Adobe. While it can be disabled as described HERE, some users may not want to perform additional tweaks to every installation of Firefox to disable the DRM. Mozilla understands this, so they have provided a separate DRM-free version of the Firefox browser for download.
How to disable DRM in Firefox 38
Mozilla just released a new version of Firefox. With Firefox 38, there is a new DRM system bundled with the browser. In this article we will see what is that DRM system and how to disable it.
Windows 10 might come with new Interactive Tiles in the future
Windows 8 replaced Gadgets with Live Tiles as a new way to show information to the end user. Live Tiles make use of Windows push notifications to show you updated content from apps in the Windows App Store. Microsoft is working to improve Live Tiles, so you can interact with them. Now that we know Windows 10 is the last big release of Windows, interactive live tiles may be delivered as an update to Windows 10.
Windows 10 build 10114 features an improved Start menu
The new Start menu is something that long time Windows users are looking forward to in the upcoming Windows 10 operating system. Several images of the unreleased Windows 10 build 10114 have appeared on the internet. From the leaked images, we notice some changes which the Start menu is undergoing in Windows 10.
