Author: Richard Hay

New Xbox Avatars Available to Select Xbox Insiders

After more than a year since their initial announcement at E3 2017, the new high end Xbox Avatar system is finally making its public debut. Xbox Insiders in the Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Preview rings can participate in the testing of the new Xbox Avatar Editor app on their Xbox One consoles. The process of joining the testing takes just a few minutes in the Xbox Insider App on the console.

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Twitter PWA on Windows 10 Gets Further Share Dialog Integration

The official Twitter PWA app on Windows 10 received its first big new feature in a few weeks recently and can now share data both to and from the app using the Windows 10 Share Dialog. The Twitter PWA app became a share target in the Windows 10 OS back in April of this year and with this latest update individual tweets can now be shared out from the app to other areas of the OS.

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 269 #OTP

In this episode I share my latest tech challenge between me, a Wi-Fi network password, and an Amazon Echo. I won but it was a unique fix that i did not expect to be an issue. I then show you how to save some serious money on Xbox’s Game Pass, share news about the Windows 10 April 2018 Update roll out, the latest Redstone 5 build, and a bunch of hardware related news. Of course there are other headlines and tidbits sprinkled throughout the show about Amazon, Google, E3, and even moon dust. Listen all the way through to catch everything. As always enjoy the show and thanks again for listening!

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Windows 10 RS5 Build 17692 Adds Files On-Demand Storage Cleanup Option

When Microsoft released Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17692 to Windows Insiders last week they added the ability to have Storage Sense manage when files stored on OneDrive and marked for local storage could possibly be moved back to a cloud-only status. By default it is set to 30 days but you can go into the settings and either turn it off or set it for a different time frame.

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