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In this update, a little code cleanup, a "Need to be Saved" indicator, and new minimum app window width and height settings.

Remember, the latest version of the code is available on GitHub.
A little code cleanup
Given all the refactoring work I'd done on the WPF version of this app (.NETpad), I was never super comfortable with the quick and dirty approach I was taking to WinUIpad. But this was born of necessity: The Windows App SDK isn't just new to me, it's terrible, all kinds of terrible, and ...

The Google project that will merge Android with ChromeOS is called Aluminium OS internally.

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Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss the Windows 11 agentic evolution, more earnings, AI, Xbox and gaming, and much more.

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As a young fan of rock music in the 1970s, I would pore over my father's extensive album collection in the years before I would start buying my own. Some of the packaging was art in its own right, including the working zipper on the front of the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers. And many of these albums were chock full of information about the musicians and their music.

I was especially happy when song lyrics were part of it, as I still thought that these people were somehow elevated and had somet...

The EU Commission announced yesterday that it has 45 days to determine whether Apple Maps and Apple Ads are core platform services that need to be regulated under the DMA.

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I was hoping to keep this to weekly updates, but two weekends came and went with me struggling to figure out why WinUIpad was crashing on app exit in certain conditions. So another few weeks with the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 was another few weeks of frustration, as always. But that’s the job, and this new update includes basic implementations of the Word count and Line and column position displays, plus one of the dumbest and most difficult tasks to do properly with this framework, app shutdo...

Amazon's Black Friday Week deals are live, and tech enthusiasts can save big on phones, tablets, laptops, smartwatches, home appliances, and more.

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Opera issued a major set of updates to its Neon agentic web browser that it created with its partner community.

The post Opera Neon Get One-Minute Deep Research, Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, and More appeared first on Thurrott.com.

WhatsApp users will soon lose access to the ChatGPT and Copilot chatbots that arrived in the messaging app in late 2024.

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I wish I could say that I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. But I'm just tired of it all. Tired of the enshittification, tired of the products and services that I rely on getting worse and worse, and more expensive, over time. But most of all, I'm tired of paying again and again for products and services that I either don't use at all, don't use enough, or are just too expensive when viable alternatives exist. And so a big focus of this coming year will be scaling back on all t...