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Has anyone noticed that Microsoft's new default user icon looks like an unhappy cyclops?
Maybe it's because he upgraded to Windows 10, has multiple monitors and can't set individual wallpapers. Fear not, my one-eyed friend, there's a way to get this done. Like many other Windows 8x features that appear to be missing in Windows 10, it's still there, just hidden but easy to find and no dubious third party apps are required.
- Bring up the "Run" command box by holding your Windows and R key
- Paste the following text in the box (no quotes): "control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper"
- Hit Enter or click OK
- This will bring up the old style Desktop Background selection window
- Browse to where your desired photos are, right-click each photo, set it to the desired monitor and save changes
In what I can only describe as an Apple-esque walled garden tactic, Amazon is going to stop allowing the sale of non Prime compatible devices like Chromecast and Apple TV, effective October 29.
According to the Amazon Overlords:
“Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime,” a spokesperson said. “It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion. Roku, Xbox, PlayStation and Fire TV are excellent choices.”
So to start with Amazon is assuming their customers are idiots and can't properly research a purchase or read a product description. While I agree that there are a startling number of 85s* out there this argument just doesn't hold much water, Secondly, it's reported that fewer than 20% of Amazon users are Prime members so anyone wanting a cheap or convenient device to use other streaming services will just have to shop elsewhere.
Popular opinion is that this isn't tantamount to an antitrust violation, due to there being other outlets for purchase, although I imagine this will suck worse for Google as outlets for Apple products are far more ubiquitous but, in my opinion, this just comes off as a sleazy, underhanded move.
* 85 is an Alien 3 reference used to indicate someone has a low intelligence.
Many of you know about my on again, off again history with writing. All the way back to the early '00s, with PCExtremist.com and freelancing, I've wanted to both read about and get hands-on with technology and than share what I learn and how I feel about the experience with anyone that will listen.
As my career started to take off I found less and less time to keep up with all all the diversity in tech news and had to focus on what I was relevant to success in my job and most of what I learned was either proprietary or confidential and not appropriate to share on a public forum.
In 2009 I started this blog in an attempt to rekindle my interest in flogging any hardware I could get my hands on and reporting on anything in the tech news I found of interest but over the years my dedication to this site has been spotty, at best, leading to complete silence since the end of 2012 mostly due to my dealing with spinal/neurological deficits, unemployment and the subsequent deep depression that followed.
I'm still unemployed but after a few surgeries, I'm feeling better physically than I have in a very long time. The emotional health thing is a daily maintenance task and I've been told to get off my butt and find hobbies other than feeling sorry for myself and melting my brain with the TV. Several people have said that writing again would both be good as a mental stimulus and as a possible way to showcase some of my talents to possible future employers... yay me.
This brings me full circle to the title of this (much longer than I intended) post in that I'm going to resume publishing content on this blog. I'm not sure with what, how much or how often I'll be assaulting the interned with my opinion but I'm hoping it will eventually several posts, daily. We'll see.
