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Windows 10 Cloud disappoints (first look)
Microsoft is working on a new Windows 10 SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) that the company named Windows 10 Cloud internally.
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Firefox 52: how to keep on using plugins
Firefox 52 will be the first release version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser that will ship without support for NPAPI plugins.
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SMB Zero-Day affects Windows 8, 10 and Server
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) published a vulnerability note yesterday about a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft Wi
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NooBoss for Chrome: excellent extension management
NooBoss is a Google Chrome extension management add-on that supports automatic state changes, a history, and better management options among other things.
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Nvidia limits game bundles to video card model
When you buy a video card for gamers, it is often the case that you get a game or multiple games along with it.
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UCheck: update checker and software installer by RogueKiller creator
UCheck is a free and professional program for Microsoft Windows devices that checks installed software for updates semi-automatically.
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Nintendo releases Fire Emblem Heroes
Nintendo has just released Fire Emblem Heroes, the company's first "real" game for Android, and second game for iOS.
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Windows 10 Insider Build 15025 is all about bugs and fixes
Microsoft pushed out Windows 10 Insider Build 15025 to the Fast Ring channel yesterday evening featuring mostly bug fixes.
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Google wants you to use an up to date version of Chrome
Google, just like Microsoft and probably any other company on the planet that produces software, wants you to use the most recent version of their products and
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LibreOffice 5.3 ships with experimental Office-like Ribbon UI
LibreOffice 5.
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Firefox 56: Activity Stream target
Mozilla targets Firefox 56, out in the second half of 2017, as the first version to feature the organization's new Activity Stream new tab page.
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Greasemonkey Dev posts WebExtensions Design Doc: paints grim picture
Greasemonkey is a popular add-on for the Firefox web browser that enables you to load and create userscripts to interact with web content.
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Fast Methods to shut down Windows
Most Windows users shut down the computer through the Windows Start Menu, probably.
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Chrome's rendering gets faster: here is what Google does not tell you
Google announced yesterday that it has implemented several improvements in the company's Chrome web browser that improve how the browser renders content.
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Limit Firefox audio playback to one tab
Smart Tab Mute is a browser add-on for the Firefox web browser that limits audio playback in the browser to a single tab at a time.
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HARDiNFO: hardware and system tool for Windows
HARDiNFO is a free and commercial program for Microsoft Windows devices that offers details hardware information, benchmarks, monitoring, and diagnostic tools.
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Large number of Android VPN apps insecure
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) have evolved from a technology used mostly by businesses to one that is used by more and more home users as well.
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Windows 10 Cloud brings Windows RT back from the dead, sort of
Windows 10 Cloud is a new edition of Windows 10 that showed up for the first time in one of the recent Insider Builds released for the operating system.
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Temps: beautiful but demanding cross-platform weather program
Temps is a cross-platform weather program for Windows, Linux and Mac that is beautiful, but eats more RAM in Megabyte than there are rainy days in England.
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Linux Mint 18.1 KDE and Xfce released
The Linux Mint team has just released the long term support release Linux Mint 18.
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How to display Certificate details in Chrome
Google is on a roll.
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Google removes Plugin controls from Chrome
Google made a change in Chrome 57 that removes options from the browser to manage plugins such as Google Widevine, Adobe Flash, or the Chrome PDF Viewer.
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Windows 10 Creators Update: new options to defer updates
Microsoft is working on improving the updating options of some editions of its Windows 10 operating system currently that provide users with better options to d
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Trails: Lossless Web Navigation experiment by Mozilla
Trails is a new lossless web navigation experiment by Mozilla with the aim to fix the tabbed browsing issue of losing information during navigation.
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Initial Windows 10 Game Mode benchmarks disappoint
Microsoft launched the first functional version of Game Mode, a game performance improving feature, yesterday with the Windows 10 build 15019 update.
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Firefox loses yet another high profile add-on author: Quicksaver quits
The respected Firefox add-on developer Quicksaver announced yesterday that he won't update any of his extensions anymore because of Mozilla's decision to move t
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Windows 10 Build 15019: Game Mode finally operational
Microsoft has just released Windows 10 Build 15019 to the Fast Ring of the Insider Program.
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Read classic computer and game magazines on the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive site never ceases to amaze me.
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Infobar 2.0: versatile toolbar for the Windows desktop
Infobar 2.
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Windows 10 KB3216755: Important fixes, Update Catalog exclusive
If you monitor the Windows 10 update history website over on Microsoft Support, you may have noticed that update KB3216755 is listed as the newest update for Wi
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Time to make the switch to 64-bit Firefox on Windows
The story of 64-bit Firefox on Windows is a long and complex one, and it is just about to end with Mozilla moving from offering 32-bit Firefox as the default do
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Malwarebytes 3.0.6 with stability and performance improvements
Malwarebytes is a popular, comprehensive cybersecurity software suite designed to detect, block, and remove malicious software (malware) from computers and mobi
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Whisply: transfer encrypted files via Dropbox Google Drive OneDrive
Whisply is a free online service that enables you to transfer files in a secure way to others using the cloud storage providers Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDriv
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Hide or show Wireless Networks in Windows
The Windows operating system is configured to display all available wireless networks when WiFi is enabled on the device running the operating system.
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Firefox 54: multi-process gets another content process
The most recent Nightly version of the Firefox browser, Firefox Nightly 54, ships with two content processes instead of just one.
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Wine 2.0 is now available
Wine 2.
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Windows 10 Version 1607 update KB3211320
Microsoft has released KB3211320 for Windows 10 Version 1607 today through Windows Update and the Microsoft Update Catalog service today.
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Google shuts down Chrome Sync for third-party browsers on Android
If you are using a third-party web browser on your Android device and Google Sync, you may have noticed that syncing stopped working all of a sudden.
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Chrome to throttle expensive background pages
Google plans to roll out a change in Chrome Stable soon that will have the browser throttle timers in background tabs to improve battery life and browsing perfo
