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    iOS 18 Apple’s New Home-Screen Customization

    Fact Check- iOS 18 may add new home-screen customization options. You’ll be able to put icons anywhere you like—not just in neat rows. Icon grid customization is god for aesthetics, and for accessibility. The iPhone’s home screen is about to get way more customizable—and it only took 17 years. In iOS 18, according to well-sourced Apple reporter Mark Gurman, Apple will finally let us place app icons wherever we like, instead of forcing them into a strict grid, stacked left to right, top to bottom, like some kind of anti-gravity brick wall. Android has, of course, had this feature since…

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    How To Repair Slow Computer Startup 2024

    You don’t need to get used to system lag. Instead, learn how to fix a slow PC startup with these tips, and you’ll be able to get your PC back into fighting shape in no time. Why Does My PC Take So Long to Start Up? It could be your boot drive is getting a bit full, and not operating at peak performance. You might have too many programs trying to start alongside Windows, or your hardware could just be getting a bit old. It’s hard to know which is which until you start applying solutions, to see what sticks.…

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    How To Speed Up Your Computer 2024

    After you’ve had a computer for a while, you might notice that it’s running slower than when you first got it. Fortunately, you can do some things to speed up your computer to make it seem new again. NOTE: Instructions in this article apply to Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7. Why Is My Computer So Slow? Over time, as you download files, browse the internet, remove programs, leave applications open, and do pretty much anything else on your computer, it slowly collects junk. It causes behind-the-scenes problems that aren’t always so easy to catch at first.…

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    Write Instead of Type On Windows 11

    Microsoft is starting to roll out new changes to Windows Ink that let you write anywhere you can type in Windows 11. After months of previewing the changes, the handwriting-to-text conversion now works inside search boxes and other elements of Windows 11 where you’d normally type your input. Microsoft has started rolling out the KB5031455 non-security update as a preview to Windows 11 users yesterday. You simply have to head to Windows Update and toggle the “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” setting to get this update before it’s available fully in the coming weeks. If you…

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    This is a Golden Age of Console Strategy Games

    ENSEMBLE STUDIOS HAD spent nearly a decade mastering the real-time strategy genre when it became a victim of its own success. Its 1997 debut, Age of Empires, had been an instant hit and spawned several beloved sequels and expansions that cemented the studio’s glowing reputation. Imitators—some novel, some slavish—quickly appeared in their droves, and by the mid-2000s, parent company Microsoft expected nothing of the studio other than to build on its legacy with another game in the same vein. The only problem: Ensemble wasn’t much interested. “We had been trying for so long to do anything but an RTS game,”…