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One of the biggest new features in Windows 10 April 2018 update is the addition of Timeline. The new Timeline replaces Task View, and shows a list of open apps and documents, different desktops and an activity history of all connected Windows PCs, iOS and Android devices. The activity history in Timeline shows files or webpages open on other devices and lets users continue working …

Windows 10 contains new features which let you manage how your network bandwidth is used to download updates. Microsoft had included a mechanism to limit bandwidth for background updates with update version 1709, also know as Fall Creators Update. With Windows 10 April 2018 update, you can now put a limit on how much bandwidth can be used by foreground updates .

Windows 10 April 2018 has been a mixed bag lately. A mixed bag full of bugs. As if the issues with the first release, version 1803, were not enough, subsequent updates intended to fix these issues have created more problems of their own. Just a glance at different threads on numerous forums, Reddit and other Windows focused websites surface a large variety of issues.

Google announced a major design and feature update to their News app for web, iOS and Android at Google I/O 2018. Google News now sports a brand-new Material Design, a newsstand for news and magazine subscriptions, AI based news recommendations with features like Newscasts and Full Coverage and more. This new Google News app replaces the old Google Play Newstand and News & Weather apps. Apple had …

In February 2018, Twitter decided to kill their app for Mac. They were already slow on updating it with new features so the news did not come across as a surprise. However, Twitter did not offer an alternative app. Instead, they recommended that users use Twitter in their browsers. Luckily, there is a way to use Twitter’s mobile website, which is also a progressive web …

Dank is a unique new Reddit app which breaks away from the cookie cutter templates and design guidelines that Material Design inspired apps mostly use. The app has its own delightful animations, gestures and user interface quirks. Dank is building towards a good hefty feature set – it currently supports fast media playback and viewing, for videos and images respectively, as well as inline comment replies, …

Tapbots have launched Tweetbot 3 for Mac with a new dark theme, design changes, inline media playback, new column management mechanism and more. The app is available as a new purchase from the Mac App Store for $9.99. Here’s a quick look at the new features.

With its new Gmail redesign, Google has introduced a number of new features including Smart Compose, Confidential Mode and revamped Offline Mail feature. While Gmail already had an offline feature, it required an app to be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store. The new Gmail offline feature works without a Chrome app, however it still requires Chrome to work. Go figure.

Google has introduced a number of new features in their new Gmail update, including Offline mail, Smart Compose and a new Confidential Mode. As the name suggests, confidential mode is used for sharing sensitive information via email. Emails protected with this feature cannot be forwarded, downloaded or printed and their contents cannot be copy pasted either.

Google released a major design update for Gmail a few weeks back. The new update has a number of improvements like a sleek redesign, new snooze functionality, smart replies, offline mail, confidential email mode for sensitive information, integrated apps for Calendar, Tasks and Keep, and much more. Google rolled out the new Gmail to users globally a few weeks back. Paid Google Apps users also received …