Month: February 2023

Rovio Delists Last Paid ‘Angry Birds’ Game Because The Free Version Is More Profitable

You have to love a story that comes full circle after all these many years. For a long, long time, we at Techdirt have been advocating for business models that make use of free content. The idea, which can certainly be counterintuitive, is that if you make parts of your product free to the customer,

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Is the Apple Card worth it? Here’s what you need to know

Apple Card has been available for several years at this point, and it’s proven to be a very popular credit card. Despite its popularity, however, there are a few things to keep in mind before signing up for Apple Card. Here’s what you need to know.

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Notepad Now Has Tabs on Windows 11

Notepad has received plenty of updates in Windows 11 already, but Microsoft isn’t done yet. The latest Windows 11 update finally brings tab management to the decades-old text editor. Microsoft started testing tabs in Notepad back in January, confirming a leaked screenshot from the end of 2022. The functionality has been limited to Windows Insider

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How to Quickly and Efficiently Create Tests for MySQL

Sometimes it is necessary to test stored procedures and functions in a database. There are various utilities that allow you to do this, but in some situations it is not possible to use them. In this article I will tell you how to perform testing without installing any additional utilities.

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Jack Dorsey’s Twitter competitor ‘Bluesky’ now available on the App Store, but you still need an invite

Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey left the company in May 2022 amid negotiations with Elon Musk. Since then, he has been working on Bluesky – a new decentralized social network that comes to compete with Twitter. This week, the Bluesky app was officially made available in the iOS App Store, but there’s a catch. It still requires an invitation to use it.

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