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Google killed off Allo for Messages, and now Duo will meet the same fate…
With all the focus on Meet, the new messaging chief opted to have the service become Google’s one video calling service for both regular and enterprise customers. Internally, this is being described as a merger of the two services that is codenamed “Duet” — a portmanteau of Duo and Meet.
[UPDATED] WifiInfoView v2.62
WifiInfoView scans the wireless networks in your area and displays extensive information about them, including: Network Name (SSID), MAC Address, PHY Type (802.11g or 802.11n), RSSI, Signal Quality, Frequency, Channel Number, Maximum Speed, Company Name, Router Model and Router Name (Only for routers that provides this information), and more…
Source: NirSoft – WifiInfoView
SS Tracker displays current International Space Station position on map, calculates next passes in your neighborhood and shows all relevant information about ISS, Sun and your position…
This is a Windows 10 app that gives you the ability to track the International Space Station…
The Quad-Directory-Explorer makes your files and folders easy to manage, either installed or as a Portable Windows program as an alternative Freeware to Microsoft’s File Explorer…
Q-Dir gives you extra useful functions to make you happy. Save time by reducing mouse-clicks and hand movements . Q-Dir does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from any location, such as the Desktop, and can be carried on a small USB-stick or other memory device.
Source: SoftwareOK.com – Q-Dir
5G is here, but it won’t really flourish on next-generation phones and 5G connected cars until the network is built out…
“This is the biggest infrastructure project after the interstate highway system,” says Sean Shahini, CEO of Inorsa, an engineering startup that focuses on lean, fast 5G network site builds. Those sites aren’t just retrofits of existing 4G towers: Some will proceed easily, but “the range of (most of) our antennas is way less than with 4G, so instead of building 100 antennas, for example, to cover Manhattan, we have to build 5,000 to 20,000 antennas,” says Shahini.
Microsoft is releasing a new iOS-like Tips app to make it easier for users to learn more about the new features in an update…
The Tips app will highlight all the major changes in the next feature update after that update is installed. People with this preview build will see a new Tips app that shows “some of the most recent new features from the latest Insider Preview builds in the Dev Channel”.
Best Weather App for Amazon’s Fire TV
Lately I have been really into the Amazon’s Fire TV… I currently own the Fire TV Stick and have learned to load apps from the Amazon app store and have learned how to sideload Android apps that are not really compatible with the Fire TV Stick. One app that I was looking for was a good weather app that was recognized as being compatible with the Fire TV Stick. What I found, after loading and trying many weather apps, is that the WeatherBug app works the best at this point.
WeatherBug on FireTV: Real Time Forecast & Radar
Joplin is a note-taking and to-do application that allows you to organize your day more efficiently…
Keep an eye on this one. If you are into note keeping and/or note taking, Joplin gives you full control of your data. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified with your own text editor. You can import notes from Evernote with formatting, resources and metadata retained. You can synchronize with Microsoft OneDrive or locally.
Source: AfterDawn – Joplin 1.0.233
Monitor and detect who is making changes to your directories and network shares in real-time…
Directory Monitor can be used for the surveillance of directories and/or network shares and will notify you of file changes, access, deletions, modifications, new files and inactivity in real-time. Users and processes making the changes can also be detected. Directory Monitor also provides text logs, automation via script/application execution, emailing, writing to a database, sound notifications, printing and more.
Source: Directory Monitor
