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Chrome for Android: new download options including scheduling

July 20, 2020

Google is working on improving the download options provided by the company's Google Chrome web browser for the Android operating system.

Set alerts for events and recurring occasions with Date Reminder

July 20, 2020

Not everyone likes to use a cloud based calendar.

Microsoft releases Process Monitor tool Procmon for Linux

July 20, 2020

Microsoft revealed some time ago that it had plans to port some of the tools provided by Sysinternals to Linux.

Get a report of your computer's components with Basic Hardware Inventory

July 19, 2020

Want to know more about your computer's hardware? Basic Hardware Inventory is a freeware tool that you can use to generate a report of your computer's component

Windows 10 version 2004 may show "no Internet" even though there is Internet access

July 19, 2020

Microsoft's latest feature update for Windows 10, Windows 10 version 2004, has had its fair share of issues already.

EF Commander Free is a dual pane file manager with an internal text editor, previewer, music player

July 19, 2020

Managing multiple folders simultaneously is easier with a dual pane file manager, and when it comes with a bunch of handy tools, that's a welcome bonus.

Firefox's about:home loading performance improved significantly

July 18, 2020

First impressions count; that is true for everything including web browsers.

vmPing: Multiple ping tool with GitHub download

July 18, 2020

vmPing (Visual Multi Ping) is a free, open-source graphical network monitoring tool for Windows, designed to ping multiple hosts simultaneously.

How to navigate tabs in Google Chrome with the keyboard

July 18, 2020

Most Chromium-bsaed web browsers follow the default design when it comes to displaying tabs in the browser's address bar.

Microsoft Edge 84 has been released

July 17, 2020

Microsoft released a new version of its Chromium-based web browser Microsoft Edge on July 16, 2020.

Get the Hex and RGB color codes of any shade on the screen with ColourDock

July 17, 2020

Picking out the right color when designing a website or digital artwork can be vital to make your work stand apart.

Microsoft hides www and https in Edge Canary address bar, then restores it

July 17, 2020

Google launched a controversial change in Chromium and the company's Chrome Canary web browser recently that hides trivial subdomains such as www and the protoc

A look at some of the changes in Thunderbird 78

July 16, 2020

The team behind the desktop email client Thunderbird has released version 78.

Mozilla VPN launches in some countries officially

July 16, 2020

Mozilla announced the launch of the organization's VPN service, called Mozilla VPN, yesterday on the official blog.

Check the integrity of files and text with IgorWare Hasher

July 16, 2020

Checking the integrity of downloaded files is a good security practice to ensure that your downloads haven't been tampered with.

Thunderbird 78.0 Release Imminent

July 15, 2020

MZLA Technologies Corporation has uploaded Thunderbird 78.

First look at Stardock Curtains

July 15, 2020

Stardock Curtains is the latest software program for Windows 10 by Stardock, a company known for tools such as the start menu replacement Start10, the desktop u

Google Chrome 84 is out with security patches

July 15, 2020

Google released Chrome 84 Stable, the latest version of the stable branch of its browser Google Chrome, to the public on July 14, 2020.

Just-install save downloaded installers example

Download and install programs with a single command with just-install

July 15, 2020

How do you install most software? You visit the program's page, click the download page, search for the version you want, download it, wait for it to complete a

Microsoft Windows Security Updates July 2020 overview

July 14, 2020

It is the second Tuesday of the month and that means that it is Patch Day for Windows and other Microsoft products.

Microsoft retires OneDrive's Fetch Files feature

July 14, 2020

Microsoft plans to remove the Fetch Files feature from its OneDrive desktop client at the end of July 2020.

View tab previews, save and restore sessions with the Tabby - Window & Tab Manager extension for Firefox

July 14, 2020

Navigating through browser tabs without the help of some extension or the other can be rather difficult.

New Microsoft Edge gets option to navigate back and forward using Backspace

July 13, 2020

All modern web browsers keep track of a tab's history so that users may go back or forward in history easily.

Save URLs copied to the clipboard with Portable Bookmarks for Windows

July 13, 2020

Many users save their favorite sites as bookmarks to preserve them and access them quickly.

Microsoft appears to have fixed the Recovery Partition hell in Windows 10

July 13, 2020

Windows 10 users who perform a fresh install of the operating system won't run into issues related to the creation of Recovery Partitions on the operating syste

HandyPad is a freeware text editor that supports autosave

July 12, 2020

I have lost count of the number of times that I have lost important information because of crashes, or absent-mindedly closing a word processor without saving m

Chrome 86 hides protocol and www in address bar by default

July 11, 2020

The address bar is an essential part of a web browser; it reveals the URL of the page that is open in the browser, and Internet users have used it since the [&h

Firefox 80: HTTPS-only Mode in Settings

July 11, 2020

Mozilla added an optional HTTPS-only mode to Firefox 76 Nightly back in March 2020.

A look at the Amazon Prime Video app for Windows 10

July 10, 2020

Amazon launched its Amazon Prime Video for Windows application this month officially for Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system.

Bootable USB drive tool Ventoy 1.0.15 introduces GPT partition support

July 10, 2020

The developer of the open source tool Ventoy has released version 1.

Bzzt! Image Editor is a freeware batch image resizer and conversion tool

July 10, 2020

Reducing the filesize of photos can be a good way to free up precious storage space or to prepare them for transfers.

Mozilla releases Firefox 78.0.2 security update

July 10, 2020

Mozilla released Firefox 78.

Fan Control for Windows with FanCTRL

July 9, 2020

FanCtrl is a free open-source Windows utility designed to automatically manage and customize PC fan speeds based on real-time temperature data from components l

Thunderbolt 4 is ready: here is what is new and changed

July 9, 2020

Intel unveiled Thunderbolt 4, the next-generation of the hardware interface designed to connect hardware devices to computer systems, on July 8, 2020.

Execute programs, system or custom commands with keyboard shortcuts using HotkeyP

July 9, 2020

Most launcher programs, which we have reviewed, have been easy to use and offered simple shortcuts.

Microsoft publishes Translator extension for Edge that you cannot install

July 8, 2020

If you visit the Microsoft Translator page on the Microsoft Edge Add-Ons website, you may notice that you cannot install the extension in the new Microsoft Edge.