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. The service is in beta at the time […]
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 any special […]
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. Most use a […]
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. Brave did use Chromium's rendering engine from the very beginning but it […]
Vivaldi 2.2 released: navigation and customization improvements
Vivaldi Technologies released Vivaldi 2.2 to the Stable channel on December 13, 2018. The new version of the web browser improves navigation, improves customization options further, and includes other new or improved […]
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. All it takes is to visit […]
First Look at Tresorit Send file sharing solution
Tresorit Send is a new file sharing solution by Tresorit that was launched as a beta version recently. Tresorit is best known for its end-to-end encrypted file synchronization and sharing solution for […]
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. […]
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 as Google Translate (Mozilla is […]
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. The new uBlock Origin 1.17.4 is already available on the […]
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. While you may type https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ directly to open the site in […]
How to access any Reddit forum quickly in Firefox or Chrome
Reddit uses a straightforward structure for its subreddits (forums). The main URL, https://www.reddit.com/r/, is always the same and the name of the forum is just added to it. For the main Firefox […]
Searching for torrents from within qBittorrent
Did you know that the popular cross-platform torrent client qBittorrent has torrent search functionality baked directly into the client? Torrent users have plenty of options when it comes to finding torrent files: […]
Pale Moon 28.2.0 web browser is out
The Pale Moon team released version 28.2.0 of the web browser on November 13, 2018 to the public. The new version is a major release that includes fixes and improvements. Pale Moon […]
Google launches advanced online image converter Squoosh
Google's Chrome Developer Conference is in full swing and one of the things that came out of it yesterday was the official unveiling of Squoosh, an online service designed to showcase new […]
Perceptual Ad Blocking Study paints grim picture
Advertisement blockers address a growing number of issues related to online advertisement: from online tracking to sell higher paying ads over saving bandwidth and improving page load time, to blocking malware that […]
A look at Fiddler Everywhere preview
Telerik, the company behind the free HTTP debugging application Fiddler, released a preview of Fiddler Everywhere today. Fiddler Everywhere is the next version of Fiddler that has been designed from the ground […]
Adblock Plus 3.4 promises 50% memory use reduction
Eyeo GmbH, the company behind the widely used adblocking browser extension Adblock Plus, released Adblock Plus 3.4 today. Adblock Plus 3.4 features a number of changes, most notable a promised reduction of […]