Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
The company behind the password manager Dashlane introduced a new service earlier today that scans your email inbox for sensitive information to inform you about them Sometimes, passwords or other sensitive information […]
Hush is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds password protected bookmarks to the browser's private browsing mode. Note: Hush is not compatible with Firefox 57 or newer. You can […]
Spell checkers are useful tools that highlight spelling mistakes automatically while you write, or manually if you prefer it that way. Most compare what you write to words in dictionaries and highlight […]
Most web browsers ship with keyboard shortcuts that you can use to cycle through tabs or access specific tabs that are open in the browser right away. On Windows, the keyboard shortcut […]
Yahoo! Search Alerts is was a Google Alerts alternative for Yahoo users. The service provided you with tools to monitor search keywords in Yahoo's engine and receive notifications when new websites or […]
Google introduced autoplay recently on YouTube to the effect that new videos are started automatically on the video hosting and streaming website once the previous video ends. It is unclear why Google […]
Whenever you visit a web page on the Internet one of two things can happen in regards to the color scheme used by it: the site may use its own color scheme […]
Root certificates are one core building block of today's Internet. They are used to verify connections and a list of trusted certificates ships with operating systems such as Windows which makes them […]
Show me the programs that you run on your computer and I tell you who you are. While it may not be that easy all the time, it is fair to say […]
Public DNS services may offer advantages over the DNS servers used natively by Internet Providers. These advantages may not be limited to speed only as you may get additional functionality on top […]
HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension that is published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that improves privacy and security by enforcing the use of the HTTPS protocol on websites supporting it. It […]
Have you ever cleaned up the computer of a friend, relative or customer that was filled to the brim with adware and potentially unwanted software? If there is lots of unwanted software […]
The recent history of the TrueCrypt encryption software is a strange one. First, there was a crowdfunding campaign to get the software audited for security issues in 2013 after Edward Snowden leaked […]
I did use 7-Zip in the past for all archiving needs under Windows until I ran into issues extracting new RAR archive files which 7-Zip does not support. While the author of […]
Update: We have deactivated the commenting plugin for now as it had too many issues. We will take another look at it once it offers missing features. The native WordPress comment system […]
Global hotkeys can be quite useful on a system for instance to open the System Control Panel with Windows-Pause, to copy the screen to the Clipboard with the Print-key, or to open […]
Like 802.11n, the IEEE released a draft of the amendment before its final release. These early devices are known as “Wave 1â€. Unless you 11ac router is less than a year old, […]
Every version of Windows ships with a list of installed services that control features of the operating system. While some are essential for the operating system others are optional or only required […]
As a kid, I spend most of my money playing arcade games such as Galaga, Space Invaders or Asteroids. Even though I was a bit late to the party, I enjoyed those […]
Policies provide system administrators and users with options to configure the behavior of certain features of the Windows operating system or applications available on machines running it. They are used mostly to […]
One of the Chrome features that I like a lot is that the browser displays audio indicators if audio is played in a tab in it. Even better, it offers options to […]
