There is a lot of buzz surrounding Tuesday's Firefox 43 release, and here specifically the enforcement of add-on signing for the first time in the stable version of the web browser. The […]
The developers of the popular audio player AIMP have released AIMP 4.0 final after pushing out four beta releases and three release candidate builds of the program. AIMP 4.0 is a major […]
Mozilla changed the classic search interface in Firefox 34 significantly by implementing a new search bar UI. It felt rushed at that time as it lacked options to re-order search engines, or […]
Microsoft announced a while ago that it plans to make fundamental changes to Internet Explorer support on machines running the Windows operating system. The company wants to support only the latest available […]
Pixels for Reddit is a free application for Android that provides you with an elegant user interface that has been optimized to browse images posted to Reddit by its userbase. Update: The […]
Firefox 43's official release data is December 15, 2015. This overview provides you with information about new features, updates, and changes in the new version of the web browser for the desktop […]
Firefox Addon Detector is a web service that reveals if Firefox users connecting to the service have specific Firefox add-ons installed. If you are using the Firefox web browser you may know […]
MultCloud is an online service that provides you with the means to manage all of your cloud hosting accounts, and to transfer data effortlessly between those accounts. If you have access to […]
Yahoo Video Guide is a new application for Android and iOS that provides you with the means to browse and search movies and TV shows across streaming, rental and shopping services in […]
Games that Microsoft shipped with Windows 7 are fundamentally different from those that it included in Windows 8 or 10. Windows 7 games were the last that were shipped as programs for […]
PatchCleaner is a free program for the Windows operating system that can free up huge amounts of disk space by cleaning up the Windows Installer Directory. The Microsoft Windows operating system stores […]
Mozilla announced last month that it wants to get rid of Thunderbird, the desktop email client that shares code with Firefox. The details were a bit sketchy at the time, but the […]
Microsoft's Get Windows 10 application is deployed on computer systems running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to advertise and push the new operating system as a free upgrade on those devices. It […]
Microsoft announced back in November 2015 that it would downgrade storage on its cloud hosting service OneDrive for nearly any customer of the service. Paying customers, those subscribed to Office 365 would […]
Back in the early days of the Internet, there was just a single cache for HTML files and static elements such as images but with the rise of HTML5 and modern web […]
AVG released the Android App Performance & Trends Report for Q3 2015 recently highlighting applications that impact the user experience on the operating system the most. If your Android device is leaking […]
AV Vulnerability Checker is a free program for Windows that determines whether antivirus software installed on the computer is vulnerable to exploitable constant Read-Write-Execute (RWX) addresses. Vulnerabilities are bad, regardless whether they […]
Google changed the way multi-language spell checking works in Chrome 47. The company removed the option to switch between different spell checking languages in text input fields to enable simultaneous spell checking […]
Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would end support for the Microsoft .Net Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1 on January 12, 2016. End of support means that these .Net versions won't […]
Microsoft Edge is a bare-bones web browser that the company shipped with its Windows 10 operating system, and it seems that previous versions of Windows won't be supported by Edge. Microsoft removed […]
Thunderbird usage is on the rise according to latest usage information published by Mozilla on the official blog. The email client that celebrated its eleventh birthday on December 7 crossed the 10 […]
Windows Live Writer was a desktop publishing software for Windows that Microsoft offered as part of Windows Live. The program supported several popular blogging platforms that authors and webmasters could add to […]
2016 will be an important year for Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser and proponent of an open Web. The organization announced plans this month to shift Firefox OS development away […]
The search engines DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Ixquick are doing better than ever according to statistics released by DuckDuckgo and Surfboard Holding BV. DuckDuckGo traffic climbed from an average of 7.1 million daily […]
QuickTextPaste is a free portable program for the Windows operating system that enables you to paste pre-defined text quickly using hotkeys, and to run special pre-defined commands on top of that. Automation […]
Welcome to this month's overview of the Microsoft December 2015 Patch Day. The guide provides you with relevant information about all security and non-security patches that Microsoft released since the November 2015 […]
Mozilla announced a moment ago that it made the decision to stop offering "Firefox OS smartphones" to carrier channels. Mozilla, best known for its Firefox web browser, revealed Firefox OS back in […]
Jukedeck is a new online service that provides you with the means to create music for your videos in a near effortless way as you don't need to be a composer or […]
The most recent Nightly versions of the Firefox web browser ship with the first system add-on released for the browser. Firefox Hello, the browser's realtime chat component, has been turned into a […]
Power Toggles is a free application for Android that provides you with controls to toggle system features and settings, and to add app links and custom links to the Android homescreen or […]
Firefox Profilemaker is an online tool that enables you to make configuration changes to Firefox by exporting those changes either to a Firefox profile or saving them as a prefs.js file instead […]
Google announced today that it has Safe Browsing protection to "hundreds of millions of Chrome users on Android". Safe Browsing is a protective service used by Google in Google Chrome but also […]
It is quite difficult to block the free upgrade offer to Windows 10 on operating system's running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. While it should be as easy as clicking on a […]
Major changes are coming to Firefox Hello, the built-in video-, audio- and text chat service of the Firefox web browser. Mozilla plans to remove the contacts functionality from Firefox Hello in version […]
Most Steam users I know have accumulated an impressive number of games over their account's lifespan which can be attributed more often than not to frequent sales and binge buying of games […]
I have to say that I'm very happy with my Xiaomi Mi4c Android phone which I bought in October 2015 after using a Motorola Moto G First Generation for two years straight. […]
When Mozilla announced the native integration of the "read-it-later" service Pocket in Firefox, rumors that Mozilla must have received money by Pocket for the integration emerged almost immediately. The integration did not […]
Mozilla's VP of Content Services Darren Herrman announced yesterday on the official Mozilla Blog that the organization made the decision to discontinue Sponsored Tiles in the Firefox web browser. The controversial feature […]
MegaDownloader is a third-party client for the file hosting and sharing service Mega that provides you with options to download files from the service and to stream online videos directly to the […]
I'm not sure why anyone would want to go back to the early days of the Internet, but if you do, you can relive that past even more accurately by using an […]
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