How to Stop Apple Music Auto-Renewal

Apple Music launched on Tuesday, and Cupertino is offering users a three-month free trial in the hopes that you'll eschew Spotify, Rdio, or another service for Apple's approach to streaming.

After you update to iOS 8.4 and launch the new Music app, Apple will offer you the chance to start your free trial, which will link up to your Apple ID. In a matter of seconds, you'll be compiling playlists, scrolling through Apple's recommendations, and listening to Beats 1.

It's fast and convenient, but signing up for the free trial also auto-enrolls you in Apple Music. A $9.99 per month charge will automatically be applied to your Apple account when the three-month free trial has expired. The good news, however, is that you can opt out and decide on your own whether you want to start paying for Apple Music. Found out how below.

For more, check out 25 Things to Know About Apple Music and Apple Music vs. Spotify: Which Is Best?

On iOS
1. Tap the Settings icon

2. Select iTunes & App Store

3. Tap "Apple ID: [your email] at the top

4. Tap "View Apple ID" in the pop-up window

5. Enter password, if prompted

6. Under Subscriptions, tap Manage

7. Find "Apple Music Membership" and tap it

8. Toggle the auto-renewal option to off

In the Apple Music App
1. Tap "My Music" on the far right of the app's bottom menu

2. Tap the face icon on the top left of the screen

3. Tap View Apple ID

4. Under Subscriptions, tap Manage

5. Find "Apple Music Membership" and tap it

6. Toggle the auto-renewal option to off

On iTunes
1. Make sure iTunes is updated to version 12.2

2. Click the face icon near the search bar

3. Click Account Info and sign in, if prompted

4. Navigate to Settings

5. Find Subscriptions and select Manage

6. Click edit next to Apple Music and "Off" next to Apple Music

An unsend option in Email? Finally!!!! Thanks Gmail

Gmail users, rejoice: Google has finally added "Undo Send" as a formal setting on the Web, which lets you recall messages sent by accident.

Regret writing that message to your boss? Accidentally click "Reply All" on a private letter? With Undo Send, you can give yourself a buffer. Visit Gmail's general settings tab to enable the option, and choose your preferred cancellation period: 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds.

Previously, you had to enable Undo Send manually via Gmail Labs. Starting in early July, however, it will be an official feature within Gmail rather than an experimental one.

Introduced in early 2009 in Gmail Labs, the "Undo" link appears atop your inbox when you send a message. Click it, and Google will grab the message before it leaves the server.

"This feature can't pull back an email that's already gone," Google designer Michael Leggett wrote in at the time. "It just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button." If you close Gmail or your browser crashes in those few seconds, the message will send, and you'll be out of luck.

Undo Send is already on by default in the Inbox for Gmail app, which rolled out publicly last month.

Google Play Music goes free, partly

Google is taking on Pandora, Apple Music and Spotify, adding a free radio element that opens a door for people to try a bit of Google Play Music without having to pay.

Google Play Music launched a free, ad-supported radio product in the US to complement the $10-a-month subscriptions that give members all-you-can-eat access to songs and a storage locker for the songs you already own, according to a blog post Tuesday. The post was written by Google product manager Elias Roman, who is the CEO of Songza, the Web radio company Google bought in July.

Without a free tier, "we're basically asking for people's phone number before having a chance to flirt," said Roman in an interview. "The single biggest door we can open is a free tier that lets people try the experience."

As consumers increasingly switch their music listening behavior from purchases and downloads to streaming, Google Play Music has struggled to break into popular consciousness compared with rivals like Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music, which is set to launch Monday. Despite Google's Android mobile operating system being the most pervasive in the world, and even though Google Play Music has the bonus feature of the free storage, it has remained in the shadow of bigger players like Pandora and Spotify .

The new free, ad-supported version of Google Play Music will be similar to Songza, offering the ability to browse curated stations by genre, mood, decade or activity, or you can search for your favorite artist, album or song to instantly create a station of similar music. The catalog of songs available on the radio-like product will match the breadth that the full Google Play Music offers, but you won't be able to listen to specific songs on demand.

Initially, the load of ads you'll have to hear is light. Roman said that at launch, Google will be experimenting with playing one "pre-roll" ad spot right before your songs start to play -- and then none thereafter. The service will also incorporate the TrueView ads that are popular with advertisers on YouTube, which allow consumers to skip the commercial after a few seconds. Advertisers don't have to pay for the ads that are skipped on YouTube.

The free tier launches first in the U.S. It's available on the Web today, and is rolling out this week to Android and the Apple iOS mobile operating system.

Want online privacy, try DuckDuckGo

When it comes to search, there’s really been only one name that has mattered for the last 15 ears: Google. And though Google remains the top search engine on the planet by a wide, wide margin, that’s not to say that there isn’t any competition. There is, of course, Microsoft’s Bing. But also making strides in search is DuckDuckGo, a search engine which prides itself on not tracking users and valuing privacy and pertinent search results above all else.

What’s interesting, though perhaps not surprising, is that DuckDuckGo’s growth has been skyrocketing ever since Edward Snowden leaked troves of classified information about NSA surveillance programs. Since word of the NSA’s sweeping surveillance initiatives first broke two years ago, traffic on DuckDuckGo has exploded by an astounding 600%. In the immediate aftermath of Snowden’s leaks, DuckDuckGo traffic surged by 33%.

“We’re doing about three billion searches a year,” DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg said during a recent CNBC interview, “so we’re already pretty mainstream.”

Undoubtedly helping DuckDuckGo’s growth is that the search engine has since become an option for both Firefox and Safari users. With iOS 8, for instance, Apple for the first time let users switch mobile Safari’s default browser from Google to DuckDuckGo.

Though DuckDuckGo doesn’t track users, Weinberg explains how the site is able to make money.

“It’s really a myth that you need to track people to make money in search, so we make money just with keyword advertising,” Weinberg explained. “So you type in car and you get a car ad. And it’s really that straight forward. Google tracks you on all of these other sites because they run huge advertising networks and other properties… so they need that search engine data to track you.”

Clearly, things at DuckDuckGo are looking up, though don’t be fooled into thinking that Google has anything to worry about, at least not yet. Whereas DuckDuckGo services 3 billion searches a year, Google handles that same level of search volume on a daily basis.

Starting today, you can reserve and buy an Apple Watch in the Apple Store

It's been clear that sooner or later, Apple would start selling the Apple Watch through its huge network of retail stores, and now it looks like the time has come, for some countries at least. As noted by 9to5Mac, an Apple Watch "reserve and pick up" system is rolling out in Australia and the UK as the date flips over to June 17th. It seems likely that the US will be on that list as well. It's still not as simple as just going in and buying a watch, however — you'll need to pick your preferred case and band online to make sure it is in stock before going to pick it up and buy it at your local Apple Store.

We heard earlier this month that Apple would start selling the Watch in-store in seven new countries, but those countries will probably have to wait until June 26th as previously announced. Either way, expect availability to be limited still — some Watch combos might not be available at all, at least until Apple's stock catches up with demand. Until now, Apple's official position on Watch availability has been that you must order online — though a select few stores did have them in stock for customers. Regardless, it's clear that it's getting easier to buy an Apple Watch as the company ramps things up to meet demand.

Scammers never quit - Jasmine Hines

Every six months of so, I get an email from a "Jasmine Hines"  It follows like this:

Hello are you capable of repairing computer in volumes? Let me know.

Regards,

Jasmine

Of which I respond:

Sure, can call in some workers if need be, what are you needs?

Scammer.., I mean Jasmine responds:

I have 6 windows Toshiba laptops.Below are the things needed to be done one on each laptops.

1 Format Hard Drive

2 Microsoft Office Package

3 AVG Virus Software  (Free Lifetime Updates)

4 Adobe Acrobat

5 Laptop Cleaning of the keyboard, screen and other case.

6 Diagnostics of the entire system after to check hard, cdrom, floppy, etc.

Get back to me with your total cost for the services of  6 units.

I await your urgent response.

 

Best regards,

Jasmine

I will update, but for those who cannot wait for the ending, She will agree to my price and send me a fake check that I should cash and return the change back to her.  Of course, her check will bounce and mine won't, which will leave me upset and depressed at being scammed. 

Oh, I didn't fall for it the first time, I still have the check, I considered it research to see how it actually works.  They actually called me several times wanting to know if I had cashed the check.  It was quite funny.