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Microsoft has implemented lots of changes to Windows 10 in readiness for the big Anniversary Update due for release in July. If you’re a Windows Insider then you’ll likely have already played around with new features such as Windows Ink, Bash on Ubuntu, Extensions on Edge, and so on.
The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview release, Build 14328, introduces some major -- and very welcome -- tweaks to the Windows 10 Start menu. Here’s a detailed guide to the changes.
The first thing you’ll notice when you click the Start button is installed apps have been moved front and center. No more having to click on All Apps to find a particular item (personally I always prefer to search for an app, rather than use the menu, but this might change now).
The list of apps is presented alphabetically, and you can scroll down to find the one you want.
Alternatively, if you have a lot of apps installed, you can just click on any of the menu headings (such as one of the letters or Recently added) and jump straight to a particular section using the A-Z view.
Right-clicking an app you use regularly will let you pin it to the tiled section on the right.
Above the apps list, at the very top, is a Most used section, which to begin with includes Get Started, Sway, Maps, People, Calculator, and Alarms & Clock.
Underneath that is Recently added. This shows the last app you installed, but can now display up to three new items.
The little sidebar to the left of the menu gives you quick access to your account (you can change account settings, Lock and sign out from there), File Explorer (which has been removed from the Taskbar for space reasons) and Settings. The Shutdown button has also been moved to here, and clicking it will let you choose the action you require. This little bar stays visible at all times and you can customize it through Settings > Personalization > Start. Scroll down to the bottom and click Choose which folders appear on Start. You can add Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, HomeGroup, Network, and Personal folder.
The Settings menu also lets you choose to toggle various options on or off, including
- Show more tiles
- Occasionally show suggestions in Start
- Show most used apps
- Show recently added apps
- Use Start full screen
- Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar
- Tiles on the right of the Start menu can be reordered, resized and removed as before, and of course you can resize/reshape the menu itself by clicking and dragging. If you prefer a long list of apps, extend the menu downwards.
- Tiles on the right of the Start menu can be reordered, resized and removed as before, and of course you can resize/reshape the menu itself by clicking and dragging. If you prefer a long list of apps, extend the menu downwards.
Are you using Windows 10? Do you find these new updates useful?Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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The Civil Cabinet of president Paul Biya has today Monday 24.04.2016 released the final list of invitees to the upcoming economic conference to be held in the nations capital-Yaounde from May 17-18 2016. Top on the list is Nigerian businessman and the richest in Africa Aliko Dangote . Cameroonian banker Paul Fokam Kammogne , and Arthur Zang,the inventor of Cardiopad were also included .
Aliko Dangote is Africa's richest man, and founder of Dangote Cement, the continent's largest cement producer. In 2015 Dangote Cement launched new plants in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania. The company produces more than 30 million metric tons annually, and plans to double capacity by 2018. Dangote owns about 90% of publicly-traded Dangote Cement through a holding company; this percentage exceeds the 80% ownership ceiling set by the Nigerian Stock Exchange. A spokesman for Dangote told Forbes that the company has until October 2016 to lower Aliko Dangote's stake and plans to do so by then.Other companies in the Dangote Group, which is active in 15 African countries, include publicly-traded salt, sugar and flour manufacturing companies.
Meanwhile Mr Paul Fokam Kammogne is a Top Cameroonian banker , chairman of Afriland Bank with branches all over Africa, and initiator of the largest microfinance network in Cameroon.
The office of Mr Biya also invited Arthur Zang , a young Cameroonian computer engineer and inventor of Cardiopad , a touch pad tablet that allows for the remote diagnosis of heart problems in rural areas, and winner of the prestigious Rolex prize in 2014.
Other prominent invitees on the list were Manuel Barroso, former president of the European Commission (2004-2014) and now a visiting professor at Princeton University in the United States ,Donald Kaberuka, former President of the African Development Bank from (2005-2015), and Pascal Lamy, former director general of the World Trade Organization from (2005-2013) .
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ZTE has opened a subsidiary in Cameroon to provide telecom infrastructure construction and maintenance services. Agence Ecofin reports that the Chinese company will supply equipment, import and export products and offer telecom consulting services to businesses, with some locally made and assembled content. ZTE Cameroon is led by Ruoyi Qi and has XOF 480 million (USD 825,000) of capital.
The subsidiary allows ZTE to become directly responsible for sales in the country rather than going through Mitsumi Distribution, with which it signed a pan-African agreement a year ago. ZTE won the backbone contract in 2013, focused on connecting government facilities involved in natural disaster response. At the time, competitors said ZTE offered an unfair level of financing to win the contract.
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Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer World Bank Group, arrived in Cameroon yesterday April 24, 2016, through the Yaounde Nsimalen International Airport.
Top on her agenda is the meeting with some State functionaries, sector representatives, and civil society, with discussions to focus on how the World Bank can best assist Cameroon to emerge in the wake of development challenges. She will also meet with beneficiaries of World Bank-sponsored projects that improve the livelihoods of Cameroonians in urban and rural areas. During her stay, Sri Mulyani Indrawati will also meet with private sector representatives in the fields of agriculture and energy. This will enable her to share and learn about the opportunities and challenges of the sector.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati’s visit comes to strengthen partnership between the World Bank and Cameroon. Priority areas during discussions with government officials include promoting inclusive growth, addressing regional poverty disparities, implementing structural reforms to speed up growth and the improvement of the business climate so as to promote job creation.
Cameroon is party to the World Bank since 1963. The World Bank portfolio in Cameroon now consists of 20 active projects. The transactions are evaluated at over 1.338 million US Dollars. They are funded under the International Development Association, IDA of the World Bank Group.
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The Managing Director of the World Bank Group, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, is expected in Cameroon on 25 April 2016, we learned in a communiqué published on 20 April by this Bretton Woods institution. During her stay in Cameroon, Sri Mulyani Indrawati will meet with the Cameroonian public authorities as well as representatives of the private sector and local civil society.
According to the World Bank, this work visit is meant to “strengthen the partnership” with Cameroon and “discuss the priorities of the government: promote an inclusive growth and address the regional disparities in poverty, implement the structural reforms for faster growth, and improve the business environment for the creation of jobs”.
Additionally, the Managing Director of the World Bank Group will seize the opportunity to exchange with the beneficiaries of the "Projet Filets sociaux", which the institution she manages is financing in Cameroon with FCfa 25 billion since 2014. This project to benefit 420,000 persons perceived as vulnerable in urban and rural areas consists in cash transfers every 2 months, for a total amount of FCfa 720,000 (approximately US$ 1,400), as well as training activities to improve their health, nutrition, education and skills.
According to Elisabeth Huybens, Director of Operations of the World Bank for Cameroon, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe; for Cameroon in particular, "the active portfolio of the World Bank has 14 national and 6 regional projects". These projects represent a total of FCfa 715 billion, she highlighted on 16 March 2016 in Yaoundé. This was during the joint review of projects funded by this institution in Cameroon.
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The Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh has granted audience to the Chief Executive Officer of the British Oil Exploration Company, New Age, Steve Lowden and the President of their partner company, China Poly Technology, Wang Lin During the audience on 20th April 2016, both investors expressed their interest in the gas, electricity and housing sectors of Cameroon.
The British CEO explained that his company plans to invest some 1.250 billion CFAF in the development of gas (for liquefaction and export) and electricity in Cameroon. His company is operating in Cameroon under the name, New Age Cameroon Petroleum. The President of China Poly Technology on his part, expressed interest not only in gas and energy but also in the housing sector.
At the end of the audience, the British and Chinese investors expressed hope that the cooperation projects will begin as soon as possible.
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