Author: Alvin Wanjala

Facebook rolled out a portability tool last year, enabling users to easily transfer their photos to third-party cloud platforms, including Google Photos, Backblaze, Dropbox, and Koofr. The same tool is expanding and will now allow users to export their Facebook posts and notes. The latest expansion is part of Facebook’s plans to give people more control over their data. Facebook has come under fire in the past for mishandling user data. It previously lacked enough privacy controls to prevent data scraping. Since the costly Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company has pledged to offer users more control over their data and…

Google Chrome is adding a new “link to highlight” feature. The feature is part of Chrome 90, the latest version of Google’s ubiquitous browser. Link to highlight allows users to share specific sections of an article by highlighting it. Instead of copying the full URL, the feature allows users to be specific on what they want others to know. To share a section of a website or article, you first have to highlight the text you wish to share. Then, right-click and select “copy link to highlight.” That way, when a user taps on the link, they’ll be taken directly…

Apple made a bold move in 2020, announcing their Macs’ transition from Intel x86 processors to in-house ARM-based silicon. The company went ahead to seal the deal by launching its first-ever chip, M1, powering its Macs, a hallmark announcement that set the company in an official transitional phase. M1 macs brought major improvements to Apple’s laptops, and the first devices were praised in part due to the massive performance leaps. Rosetta technology also solved many of the perceivable issues that could have raised due to the landmarking changes. It has made it easy to run native Intel apps on Apple…

Sony’s next-gen console, PlayStation 5, is being patched with a new software update adding external storage support for next-gen games. The software update addresses one of the biggest shortcomings of PS5 since the November 2020 launch. The PS5 ships with 825GB of SSD storage on board but with a meager 667GB available for storing games and related data. With next-gen games averaging 50-60GB, the available storage has been a major challenge to PS5 gamers who have been forced to download and play just a few games at a time. Thankfully, as promised in March, Sony came through and unlocked external…

Microsoft’s ambitious timeline feature is more or less going away. The company announced as part of the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21359 rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. “If you have your activity history synced across your devices through your Microsoft account (MSA), you will no longer have the option to upload new activity in Timeline,” Microsoft said. Even so, it said the changes wouldn’t impact AAD-connected accounts. Removing the timeline feature was more or less expected as it was majorly based on the company’s digital assistant, Cortana. But Cortana is gone – at least…

Who doesn’t love offline support? Spotify is, finally, adding an offline mode to its desktop years after offering the same on mobile, albeit under a paywall. Offline support is rolling out in the latest update coming to its desktop app, which also ships with major UI improvements. To download albums and podcasts offline is straightforward. Similar to mobile, you simply navigate to an album, or playlist page and hit the download button. The selected music and podcast episodes will then be downloaded and you’ll be able to see the files while offline. Spotify’s download feature, as you may have guessed,…

Apple has an incoming Spring Loaded event next week, Tuesday, April 20. The company confirmed the launch date late Tuesday, but there are no official details on what will be unveiled at the event, as is typical. However, the new launch date is in line with a March report that the company will launch its new high-end iPads in April. Several details about the new iPad Pros have been thrown around since then, including a camera and processor upgrade. That should make up for the lack of a design change from last year’s models. Two iPad Pros are expected to…

Samsung has confirmed another Galaxy Unpacked event planned for April 28. The South Korean tech company, in a video, teased launching “the most powerful Galaxy” on the said date. The event will be showcased live on YouTube starting 5:00 PM EAT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81vXN2MOi0s If you know anything about Samsung, you certainly are aware of how the company loves to produce flashy videos for its upcoming products. The upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event will be the company’s third this year, after the launch of the Galaxy S21 series in January and the A72 and A52 last month. Provided this, it’s unlikely that we…

Netflix has revamped Kids Profile, making them more kid-friendly. Switching from the standard horizontal rows, Kids’ profiles are now more visual. The major changes include changing how favorite shows look on the home screen. Kids will now bump into their favorite shows in a visually appealing way, with main characters at the top of each show. The streaming company says the redesign helps kids easily identify their favorite shows and guide them on what they want to watch next. The favorites will appear prominently on the home screen. “We wanted to represent a title in the way that kids most…

Google Photos is certainly not the first app you’ll consider when wanting to edit your videos. However, although the app mainly focused on backing up photos and videos, Google is rolling out a revamped and much more powerful editor for videos. The same revamped editor is already available on iOS after the February rollout. The new video editor packs more features and capabilities than the old version, with new options like color correction with granular controls for brightness, warmth, tint, skin color, vignette, etc., extensive cropping options, individual frame exports, and audio removal. Additionally, it also does the rotation, trimming, and…