Adobe will retire Shockwave on April 9, 2019
Adobe plans to discontinue Adobe Shockwave, a browser-based platform for interactive games and applications, on April 9, 2019.
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Flickr: Creative Commons photos don't count against free user 1000 photo limit
Flickr revealed in a new blog post on the official company blog that it made the decision to exclude Creative Commons photos from any limit imposed on users on
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Google Images may soon feature "shoppable ads"
Google Images is a popular image search engine that returns images based on search terms that you enter into the search box on the site.
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LastPass increases price of Premium plan again
LastPass increased the price of the Premium plan of its password management service in February 2019; this time to $3 per month for a Premium plan, an increase
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Vivaldi tests user accounts in the browser
The next stable version of the Vivaldi web browser, created by Vivaldi Technologies AS, may feature user account management and guest mode support.
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Thunderbird 60.5.2 has been released
The desktop email client Thunderbird has been updated to version 60.
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About Microsoft Edge's secret Flash whitelist
Microsoft's Edge web browser users a secret Flash whitelist that allows Flash content to run without click to play protection on included sites.
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OnionShare 2 released: Tor-powered file sharing
The initial version of OnionShare launched in 2017 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
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Pale Moon 28.4.0 released: security and stability update
A new version of the desktop web browser Pale Moon was released today for all supported operating systems.
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Integrate Nano Defender with uBlock Origin to block Anti-Adblocker
A fairly common reaction to counter the rising use of adblockers is to implement anti-adblocking scripts to get Internet users to disable the content blocker on
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Third Party Web: an analysis of third-party script costs
Third Party Web is an initiative to analyze the cost of third-party scripts on websites to provide Internet users and developers with actionable information.
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Google finally making Gmail's right-click menu more useful
Google announced recently that an update of Gmail's right-click menu functionality will land in February 2019.
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Vivaldi 2.3 released: auto tab-stacking, usability improvements
Vivaldi Technologies AS released a new version of the Vivaldi web browser on February 6, 2019.
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Waterfox 56.2.7 released
The developer of the Waterfox web browser, Alex Kontos, released Waterfox 56.
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Microsoft Browser Patent to deal with irrelevant content
Many websites on today's Internet display content that is of no or little interest to visiting users; the content is downloaded, however, and device power and b
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Please Microsoft, leave Windows Search alone
Microsoft released a new preview build of the upcoming Windows 10 version 1903 feature update yesterday; it included, among other changes, a new top apps listin
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Thunderbird 60.5.0 released
Thunderbird 60.
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Users fall for these Email Phishing subjects the most
Is phishing still a thing? KnowBe4, a security training company, released details on the top clicked phishing email subjects of the fourth quarter of 2018; in o
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Basilisk browser drops WebExtension support
Basilisk browser, a web browser that is maintained largely by the Pale Moon team, won't support WebExtension-based extensions going forward.
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Pale Moon 28.3.0 released
Pale Moon 28.
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AskWoody.com (Tech Sites We Love)
AskWoody.
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DuckDuckGo Search switches mapping to Apple Maps
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo announced yesterday that the search engine's map and address related searches and functions are now powered by Apple's
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Google launches "your related activity" mobile search feature
Google announced the rollout of a new mobile search feature called "your related activity" that lets users pick up where they stopped previously according to Go
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Thunderbird: big plans for 2019
The Thunderbird team provided us with an outlook of things to come for the desktop email client in a new post on the official Thunderbird blog.
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dns.adguard.com: what AdGuard DNS is and how to use it
dns.
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A look at community-powered VPN Penguin Proxy
Penguin Proxy is a community-powered VPN solution for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, as well as several web browsers, that is free currently.
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Logify: log out of Internet services at once
Logify is a free online service that you may use to sign out of multiple supported Internet services at once; the service is free to use and does not require an
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Most Internet users still prefer weak passwords over secure ones
If you are a reader of this blog you know that it is essential to use unique and strong passwords for any online or offline service that you use.
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Brave: faster loading speed, Chrome extension support
Brave, the ambitious web browser that aims to change website financing and Internet advertising, was switched to Chromium this month.
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Vivaldi 2.2 released: navigation and customization improvements
Vivaldi Technologies released Vivaldi 2.
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Use Email to scan files on Virustotal
Virustotal, an online virus scanning service operated by Google, is a handy resource to verify that files are clean before you execute them on your devices.
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Tresorit Send: Send Big Files up to 5GB with Encryption
Tresorit Send is a secure, end-to-end encrypted file-sharing service designed to send large files (up to 5 GB) without insecure email attachments.
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eBay customer? Check the Advertising Preferences!
If you are an eBay customer, either as a seller or buyer, you may want to check the advertising preferences on the site if you have not done so in the past.
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Thunderbird 60.3.3 fixes password deletion issue
Thunderbird users who use a Master Password in the application to protect passwords may have been exposed to a password deletion issue in recent versions of the
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DeepL Translation Service adds Russian and Portuguese to language list
We reviewed the translation service DeepL in 2017 when it came out and found it to produce -- on average -- better translations than established services such a
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uBlock Origin performance improvements thanks to WASM (Firefox only, for now)
The most recent version of the content blocking extension uBlock Origin uses WebAssembly (WASM) code to improve the performance of the extension.
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Bing warns that VLC site may be dangerous
Microsoft's Bing search engine classifies the official site of the media player VLC as a site that might be dangerous currently.
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How to access any Reddit forum quickly in Firefox or Chrome
Reddit uses a straightforward structure for its subreddits (forums).
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qBittorrent: Search Engine for Torrents
Did you know that the qBitTorrent, popular cross-platform torrent client has torrent search functionality baked directly into the software?Torrent users have pl
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A look at Search changes in Windows 10 version 1903
Microsoft released the October 2018 Update yesterday on the November 2018 Patch Tuesday; while the update was delayed quite a bit because of issues that were no
