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Yasir Mahmood

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  • Features Writer, MUO
Champaign, Islamabad
As seen in: MUO, MSN, Flipboard, Android Police, TweakTown, Interesting Engineering, Business Recorder, Wevolver
Covers:  Science, Technology, and Engineering
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Yasir Mahmood, Tech Writer & Editor at Wevolver

Yasir Mahmood, Tech Writer & Editor at Wevolver

Yasir is a mechanical engineer and researcher. His studies revolve around aerospace, machine learning, and ad…

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Yasir Mahmood, Author at Android Police

Yasir Mahmood, Author at Android Police

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Yasir Mahmood, Author at MakeUseOf

Yasir Mahmood, Author at MakeUseOf

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Yasir Mahmood, Author at Interesting Engineering

Yasir Mahmood, Author at Interesting Engineering

Meet our expert author Yasir Mahmood who brings cutting-edge insights and innovative ideas in engineering. Ex…

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I install and update most of my apps with this Windows command now, and I stopped downloading sketchy installers

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By Yasir Mahmood Verified
| TweakTown Verified
For a while now, I've installed and updated the software on my PC without opening a browser or visiting a single download page. It sounds like a power-user habit, but the tool behind it comes built into Windows and takes about three commands to learn. If you still hunt for installers by hand, I think it's worth the switch. Winget is the package manager Windows should have had from the start The tool is called winget, short for Windows Package Manager, and it's Microsoft's command-line installer.
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I paid for an app to read more, and it solved my reading backlog too well

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By Yasir Mahmood Verified
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I got through more than thirty nonfiction titles last year, and I would struggle to hold a real conversation about some of them. Blinkist is the reason for both halves of that sentence, and it sits in the same category as other apps that distill a book down to its key ideas in minutes. After a full year of paying for it, my verdict is that it does exactly what it was built to do. The speed is real, but what I did not expect was how completely that speed would push the actual books out of my week.
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I stopped digging through Windows menus after I set up this one folder

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By Yasir Mahmood Verified
| TweakTown Verified
I've kept a folder named GodMode on my Windows desktop for years, and it has saved me more clicks than any app I've installed. It isn't a secret or a hack, just an old shell trick that gathers Windows' scattered controls into one searchable list. It works in the same spirit as the command-line tools that fix Windows problems faster than clicking through Settings, cutting out the hunt through menus. GodMode isn't magic, and it isn't new either The name oversells it, so let me set expectations first.
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