How to disable “notifications” from all major browsers

People often get a lot of annoying pop ups down by their clocks in Windows 10 and 11, and what they don’t realize is that they have accidentally allowed “notifications” to come from advertising driven websites that are sending them notifications even when they aren’t visiting that website!

In my opinion, the “notification” feature was the worst thing ever added to modern web browsers, but they all have it: Chrome, Edge, and Firefox all include this ability and with more and more browsers being powered by Chrome (Brave, Opera, etc…) this feature doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. So here’s how to disable it!

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Windows 10 / 11 HEVC Video Extension for Free

Microsoft offers the HEVC Video Extension necessary to play videos from iPhone users on their store, but they often try to charge a dollar for it. Just $0.99, in fact! In many cases, I don’t mind spending a dollar, and I encourage others to do the same. But sometimes you’re just in a pinch and you don’t have your credit card on file, or you aren’t logged in to your normal Microsoft account and it’s just a pain.

Have no fear! Microsoft also provides a link in the Microsoft store where you can download the HEVC Video Extension completely free of charge.

Why are there two, and why does this link exist?

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Apple is blowing it with this charging port fiasco

Stanley Ng

I’ve never been much of an Apple guy. The only Apple product I’ve personally owned was a used Mac Mini that I bought just so I could be a little more knowledgeable about helping people troubleshoot Mac problems. But when the European Union said that Apple had to ditch their custom charging port and make it “Common Charger” USB-C port, I feel like Apple missed a golden opportunity.

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A History Lesson of modern Microsoft Windows

Reddit user “winitgc” asked the question “Why do people hate Windows 10?” And it struck me as an interesting prompt. Mostly because I don’t think of Windows 10 as being so hated. But the more I thought it through, I realized they were right. And I think I realized why. So, I answered:

Let’s ignore the “pre-NT” days (Windows 9x/Me) and just consider Windows XP as the birth of home computing for the masses. XP was ‘basically’ the primary operating system from 2001 to 2007.

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