Microsoft Spartan Edge is a browser in-development that will ship with Windows 10 later this year. In fact, it will replace Internet Explorer as the default web browser on the system. I […]
Depending on where you download your software from, you may get nasty surprises in form of adware with it. This is done to increase revenue for the site's parent company at the […]
Microsoft pushed the curtain away and revealed new information about its upcoming operating system Windows 10 yesterday on the first day of the BUILD 2015 conference. The company released a new build […]
Mozilla announced plans some time ago to integrate the calendar add-on Lightning natively in the Thunderbird email client. Lightning is without doubt the most popular calendar add-on for Thunderbird and in fact […]
Microsoft kicked off this year's BUILD conference with a bang as it made several interesting announcements today. For starters, the company revealed the name for the new web browser which it called […]
Caddy is a powerful web server for home computers that takes less than a minute to setup and requires no deeper knowledge of webmaster or administrative services and technologies. If you want […]
Google has just released Password Alert, a browser extension for the company's Chrome browser that helps protect against phishing attacks targeting Google accounts. Phishing, attacks aimed at stealing information such as login […]
Thunderbird's Quick Filter toolbar displays options to filter all messages of the current email folder in certain ways. It allows you to only display unread emails for instance, which can be very […]
Ken Saunders from Access Firefox just mailed me a tip on how to browse Pinterest without registration. If you have been to the site you know that it throws a registration form […]
The Tor Browser Team has released Tor version 4.5 for all supported operating systems. The update is considered significant which is why automatic updates have been delayed for a week. Tor users […]
Dropbox just launched a new feature that enables shared file commenting. To some it is a surprise that the file hosting and synchronization service Dropbox is still doing well considering that it […]
I work in IT Support in a company where our users don't have administrator rights. As per my job, I have to constantly access part of the operative system that require Administrator […]
HTTP Request Logger is a lightweight add-on for the Firefox web browser that logs all urls connections are made to while the browser is running. Most of what happens when sites get […]
I don't like to type on my Android device. Maybe it is because my fingers are a tad to large to always hit the right key on the keyboard but I always […]
AVG's Innovation Labs just launched Crumble, a browser extension for Google Chrome that blocks third-party behavior tracking on the web when it is active. Most websites that you visit make use of […]
You have a ping of several hundred milliseconds that puts you at a disadvantage against players with better pings? YouTube videos pause every other second or so because of buffering issues? Netflix […]
I sometimes browse files on my Android device, for instance after transferring an apk file or other data to the device to execute it. While the default file browser works for that, […]
Mozilla announced in February 2015 that it would require add-ons to be signed in the near future to improve security and privacy for users of the browser. The idea here was to […]
Simple Software-restriction Policy allows you to harden Windows machines by adding Linux-like execute permissions to them. Windows by default does not prevent software from being run from any location on the computer […]
After some controversy and confusion in regards to uBlocks future, Raymond Hill's uBlock Origin extension is now officially available for the Firefox web browser. The past weeks have been filled with uncertainty […]
Find out why some blank DVDs need formatting apparently when you are trying to burn data on them even though they are not rewritable or recordable discs. I bought a new batch […]
Oracle's VirtualBox is a virtualization software that you can use to run a large number of operating systems on computer systems without interfering with the actual operating system installed on those machines. […]
If you own a Samsung SSD 840 Evo drive and noticed that write performance went considerably down after some time, you may want to download an updated tool and install a new […]
McAfee just released Raptor, a real-time behavior detection technology that is available as a standalone version for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Apart from being available as […]
Project Spartan is the codename of the new web browser that ships with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 10 operating system. It is one of the major changes of the system, considering that it […]
If you use Microsoft Office for more than just the occasional spreadsheet or Word document, you may have encountered issues in the past after installing a new add-in or plug-in, or making […]
Opera Software's work on the Opera browser continues. One of the recent additions to the browser are so-called sidebar extensions which, as the name suggests, are browser extensions designed specifically for Opera's […]
Microsoft published several Windows 10 preview builds of its upcoming operating system that give interested users a preview of things to come, Microsoft much needed feedback and companies options to test software […]
All current versions of Windows don't excel when it comes to providing users with assistance when it comes to troubleshoot issues on the system. The help is nearly useless and while some […]
Web pages can change from one moment to the next. Entire websites may go down and take contents with them, content may be edited or removed, or sites may become unavailable because […]
One Windows 10 feature that I'm looking forward to is the improved command line interface that will ship with the operating system. If you don't want to wait this long, or won't […]
Security programs that run on the Windows operating system can register with the Action Center (previously known as the Windows Security Center). The Action Center monitors registered applications and notifies users of […]
So Google rolled out a new bookmark manager in Chrome Stable introducing several core changes to the look and feel of the application. When you open the new bookmark manager in Chrome […]
MusicBee made it in the top 20 of programs that Ghacks readers cannot live without. Reason enough to check it out and review it here on the site as I have not […]
Microsoft plans to release a massive number of optional patches for company products today only a week after this month's Patch Tuesday. If you thought you are done patching your operating system […]
NoScript is a powerful add-on for the Firefox web browser that gives you control over web scripts and several other security related features. Its core feature is the blocking of scripts loaded […]
It is easy enough to create a Steam account. Just visit the official website to create an account, verify your email address and you are in. What's left then is to download […]
The advertising identifier (ID) is a unique anonymous identifier on Android devices that is used for advertising purposes. While there is no option to turn it off, the option to safely reset […]
Tomahawk is a powerful, cross-platform music player that you can link to various free and commercial online music streaming services among other things. The player's plugin system is introduced right on first […]
The popular data recovery software TestDisk and its photo recovery pendant PhotoRec have both been released as version 7 yesterday. TestDisk, available for Windows, Linux and Mac systems, is a powerful tool […]
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