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You Can Finally Change Your Default Feed on Threads
It finally happened: Threads officially allows you to choose a default feed to see when you open the app, whether that be “Following” or a custom feed you’ve created yourself. This means that when you open Threads, you’ll be able to view posts from the accounts you chose to follow, instead of seeing what the algorithm wants you to. Meta…
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Mozilla Thunderbird 135 Is Here, Switching to Monthly Updates by Default
Thunderbird, the desktop and Android email client from Mozilla, just got an update to version 135. This is the start of another transition for Thunderbird: monthly major releases by default, matching the Firefox web browser. Mozilla Thunderbird is available in different release channels, just like the Firefox web browser, giving people more choices in features vs. stability. The default download…
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How to Change Default iPhone Apps for Calls, Messages, Email and More
Summary Change default iPhone and iPad apps under Settings > Apps > Default Apps. Options include browsers, messaging, contactless apps, and autofill setups for password managers. You can’t pick a new default Camera app, but you can work around the limitation by editing your lock screen shortcuts. For years, iPhone and iPad owners were unable to change their default app…
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How to restore the default location of user folders in Windows
Did you move the default user folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc) somewhere else? Did you change your mind and want them back to their initial location? Have you set up OneDrive, and you noticed that it changed the location of your Documents folder? Do you want to restore the default folder locations for Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Videos, or other user…
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Amazon Redshift gets new default settings to prevent data breaches
Amazon has announced key security enhancements for Redshift, a popular data warehousing solution, to help prevent data exposures due to misconfigurations and insecure default settings. Redshift is widely used by enterprises for business intelligence and big data analytics for data warehousing, competing with Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and Azure Synapse Analytics. It’s valued for its petabyte-scale data handling efficiency and performance,…
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How to set default apps on your iPhone
Little by little, Apple has been lessening the restrictions it previously put on iPhone customizations. For example, you can now change all of your homescreen icons to the same color and stick widgets on the lockscreen. Until recently, though, you didn’t have a lot of choice when it came to default apps. Every operating system has its set of default…
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Is your iPhone sharing photos with Apple by default?
Sure enough, when I checked my iPhone 15 Pro this morning, the toggle was switched to on. You can find it for yourself by going to Settings > Photos (or System Settings > Photos on a Mac). Enhanced Visual Search lets you look up landmarks you’ve taken pictures of or search for those images using the names of those landmarks.…
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How to make ChatGPT the default search engine on Firefox
On Firefox, you can make ChatGPT the default search engine if you no longer like the search results from Google, and Bing isn’t an option. In this guide, I will explain the steps to complete this configuration on Windows 11. Although OpenAI has an official extension to change the default search to ChatGPT, it’s limited to Chromium-based browsers, such as…
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How to make ChatGPT your default search engine for Edge and Chrome on Windows 11, 10
On Windows 11, you can now set ChatGPT Search as your new default search engine on the most popular browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and other Chromium-based apps like ARC and Brave. In this guide, I will outline steps to complete this configuration. If you have had enough of the low-quality search results from Google, and if Bing isn’t an option…
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Steam is adding a new default option for game updates
Valve is testing an option in the new Steam client beta that will force games by default to only download updates when you launch them. Currently, Steam by default decides what game updates to download based on a few different things. As explained by Valve: For games you recently played, Steam will download game updates shortly after they are released.…
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