Windows 7 Release Date Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009. It was made available to the public on October 22, 2009. It’s preceded by Windows Vista, and succeeded by Windows 8. Windows 11 is the latest version of Windows, released in 2021. Windows 7 Support The Windows 7 end-of-life was on January 14, 2020. This was when Microsoft discontinued technical support and quit supplying Windows 7 users with software updates and security fixes through Windows Update....

Branding and its Goals Graphic designers who work in branding are tasked with promoting a company’s image through campaigns and visuals, from logo design and advertising to copywriting and slogan development. The overarching goal is to make a company uniquely recognizable, memorable, and positively viewed. Over time, a successful branding effort can make a company a household name and identifiable by a simple shape or color. To create a brand for a company, a designer must fully understand the goals of the organization and the motivations of its customers....

Play These Xbox 360 Games on Xbox One Of course, this list is subject to change. To see an up-to-the-minute list or to look for a game not yet listed here, check out Microsoft’s list of backward-compatible games; the company updates the list frequently. Eurogamer also maintains a current list, conveniently organized by date. A Kingdom for Keflings A World of Keflings Aegis Wing Age of Booty Alan Wake Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Alice: Madness Returns Alien Hominid HD Altered Beast Anomaly Warzone Earth Aqua ARKANOID Live!...

Use World Generator Seeds When you start a new game you are asked if you want to use a seed. Seeds in this context refer to having the game load specific worlds instead of letting it randomly generate one for you. This lets other people all start out in the same world. Even if everyone starts in the same world, it won’t be the same when everyone is finished. Some examples of seeds include (caps sensitive):...

The update will add the ability to pin two games instead of one on Quick Resume, an option to remap the Share button, and a new audio setup menu. Fixes are arriving in the form of a firmware update that aims to improve the performance of select Xbox controllers. Quick Resume is only for Xbox Series X|S consoles and allows you to pin two games you can choose between playing without losing any progress....

The best PC games offer something unique that keeps you coming back for more. Yakuza: Like a Dragon takes the standard Yakuza formula and stands it on its head, moving the fighting system from real-time to turn-based and making this entry to the series feel like a true JRPG. I played Yakuza: Like a Dragon on PC to find out if these changes make this game better or worse. Should you play the new Yakuza or skip it?...

How does it work? Once the changes are fully implemented — YouTube TV should roll out today; Hulu + Live TV over the next couple weeks — you’ll see them populate the Fire TV’s Live tab, Channel Guide, and On Now section. Of course, you’ll have to download their respective apps and sign in first. You can also go to the Fire TV’s integrated channel guide to see a complete programming guide, as well as set your favorite channels, which will then influence your preferred channels in the browse rows....

The company announced its new Ryzen 6000 mobile processors at CES 2022. While the CPU cores receive a modest update, the real news is the upgrade to Ryzen’s integrated graphics. Ryzen 6000 chips will use the RDNA 2 architecture found in the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X game consoles. “The transition to RDNA 2 effectively increases every graphics resource by 50 to 100 percent. The net of that is that in gaming graphics, RDNA 2 is twice as fast,” Robert Hallock, AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing, said in a video call....

Lensa AI reportedly tops both Apple’s and Google’s app charts. The app uses artificial intelligence to touch up or entirely change your looks. Some experts take issue with Lensa’s terms of use which gives broad rights to license images. “Such apps use AI models trained on images scraped from the internet, uploaded by people who never considered, let alone intended, that their photos be processed in this way,” Irina Raicu, the director of internet ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University told Lifewire in an email interview....

We already know that Hello Games’ functionally infinite galaxy exploration sim No Man’s Sky is headed to the Switch, but today’s Direct Mini revealed so much more. Playing the games we love (even if they may be a few years old at this point) on-the-go is a major draw for many, and the list of choices is only getting longer. Existential crisis in a bottle NieR:Automata is bringing all the sad robots to the Switch on October 6, including all extra modes and costumes (and a few exclusive outfits of its own)....

Video-streaming giant Youtube unveiled a nifty bit of tech today that allows you to seamlessly switch from one device to another without losing track of the content you are watching. If you’re watching something via the YouTube app on your phone or tablet and you switch to a web browser, a mini-player with the same video will launch in the bottom corner of your screen. All you have to do is steer your browser to YouTube....

Loop Hero is a pixel-art genre-bender that combines elements from RPGs, roguelikes, auto-battlers, card games, and real-time strategy games. You’re put in charge of a single adventurer with no weapons and a death wish, and are challenged with building up both him and the dungeon simultaneously, without making the dungeon too difficult for him to survive. It’s more complicated than it sounds. You die a lot in Loop Hero, but somehow, it’s rarely frustrating....

Multitask With Picture in Picture When you want to take notes while on a Facetime call or monitor your email as you watch a video, Picture in Picture is ready. Scale down a FaceTime screen or video by pressing the Home button (on models that have them) or the reduce screen size icon. The video scales down to a corner of the iPad screen. You can see the Home screen and open any other app....

Apple products are often reliable. The company also has excellent customer support. An old, used Mac likely won’t have a warranty remaining, but you can visit an Apple store for help and pay for repairs if necessary. Still, you should be cautious. This list will help you avoid common problems. You’ll want at least 4GB of RAM. It’s enough for everyday tasks like web browsing, document editing, basic games, and streaming video....

A benefit to using a 2.1 channel home theater system is that it is great for enjoying movies and music without the need for surround or center channel speakers. You can also enjoy less clutter from running additional wires. On top of all that, 2.1 channel systems are a step up from the basic sound produced by the small speakers built into most televisions. 2.1 vs. 5.1 Channel Sound Most TV shows and DVD or Blu-ray movies are produced in surround sound, intended to be enjoyed on a 5....

Piriform provides both installable and portable versions of their free registry cleaner. If you’re set on using an automated tool to fix an issue you have that’s caused by a registry problem, we highly recommend you use Piriform’s CCleaner freeware registry cleaner tool. We tested CCleaner v6 in Windows 11 using both their portable and installable versions. It can also clean the registry in Windows 10, 8, and 7. Some big pluses for Wise’s free registry cleaner include fast registry scans, scheduled scans, in place updates, and a clear separation between normal issues and those that are “unsafe,” a feature we loved....

If you like the sound of an anonymous app to use just for fun, or if you’re looking for apps similar to the now-defunct Yik Yak, here are a few social networking apps that allow you to interact with others and share your thoughts and feelings without the pressure of having your identity revealed. Anomo’s location-based functionality lets you chat with people nearby just like you can do with similar apps, or you can use the Mingle feature to find people based on your interests....

Tosh often asks questions to his fans and retweets their answers on air. Be sure you want your answer on television before you converse with him. While you’re looking at Swift’s Twitter profile, she may be looking at yours. Swift has always been interactive with her fans, and this includes Twitter. She’s even invited fans to her private home for a screening of her CD. If you ever see a Tweet like this, ask him any question you want....

Unfortunately, it’s very much not a straightforward process. You can’t format the C drive like you can format another drive in Windows because you’re within Windows when you perform it. To do it from within Windows would be like lifting a chair in the air while sitting on it—you just can’t. The solution is to format C from outside of Windows, meaning you need a way to do it from somewhere other than your Windows installation....

It’s not free, and it’s a little more expensive than the average app, but it’s well worth it. With Plume, you can also manage multiple accounts, view inline photo previews, edit your profile, see what’s trending, and so much more. It has all the powerful features of Twitter’s own app with a completely different interface. You get a totally moveable menu bar that lets you show/hide all necessary functions, like UberTabs, that let you compose tweets with one tap and a media-rich timeline with all links intact....