Many websites nowadays offer to send updates to the visitor either with the help of RSS feeds or email. Some websites on the other hand that you may find useful come without those options. If you want to stay up to date, you need to find a way to create custom email alerts or feeds [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

The Google Chrome browser has been supporting extensions for quite some time now. Most extensions are installed directly from the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery website, while a handful are installed from other sources. Many Chrome users, especially those familiar with the way the Firefox browser handles add-on updates, want to know how Chrome handles extension [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Several so called software updates were developed in the last few years. Many of the popular applications of this kind are backed up by a large download portal on the Internet. Cnet’s Techtracker falls into that category. The software program is available for the Windows operating system and requires a Cnet account before it can [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Google Update process was the bane for many Internet users as it seemed to come up again even if it was disabled on the computer system. The process googleupdate.exe was running all the time on the computer system trying to connect to Google to see if there were any updates for Google software available. [...]

Categories: Google

One of the main disadvantages of the Windows operating system is the lack of an internal application handling third party software updates on the computer system. An automatic update system like that offered in the Linux operating system would be increasing system security and stability of the Windows operating system. Several third party software programs [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Converting RSS news to Email can be useful for users who prefer to receive information about updates of their favorite sites in their inbox. It also comes in handy when using mobile devices because it is usually easier to read the news in an email client instead of having to read them in a web [...]

Categories: The Web

A new version of SUMO, the Software Updates Monitor, was released today and it was enough reason to take another closer look at the application and some of its features. SUMO can be used to scan the computer system for installed applications, check their versions and compare that with the version stored in an online [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Users who want to update their Windows operating system can use the automatic updates feature to download updates for Windows automatically, visit the Windows Update website in Internet Explorer or use one of the several Windows Updates downloaders like Autopatcher or Windows Updates Downloader. A third possibility came to light recently with the introduction of [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

This week has seen lots of software updates again and it took me some time to update the list. Many popular applications have been updated with new release versions or beta / alpha versions including a new Beta version of Opera 9.52, µTorrent 1.8 and Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 2. Lots of Microsoft applications have [...]

Categories: Software, Windows