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Total Bookmarks for Firefox: better bookmark sorting

Anyone still using bookmarks actively in Firefox? While I do add bookmarks to the Firefox browser regularly, I'm not doing it as often anymore as I did a couple of years ago. […]

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Opera Max is a standalone Opera Off-Road Mode app for Android

Opera was the first company to introduce a compression feature to its web browser. It was called Opera Turbo back in the days and was shipped with all desktop versions of the […]

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What is Youku.com, and how to access blocked contents from outside China

I do not blame you if you have never heard about Youku before. It is a Chinese video hosting website comparable to YouTube. Thanks to its Chinese-only interface, it has likely flown […]

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Tip: don't buy digital movies on Amazon Instant Video

Whenever I purchase movies or videos, I do so on DVD or Blu-Ray exclusively and never as digital content on the Internet. The reason is simple: if I purchase it on DVD […]

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herdProtect is a promising cloud-based malware scanner for Windows

Ever since cloud became a buzzword many security companies started to make use of it in their products. This usually meant doing some of the scanning and verification remotely and not on […]

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Poet is a promising Notepad replacement for Windows

Notepad, the default plain text editor that ships with every installation of Windows has a lot of limitations. From a low maximum text file size limit to barely any configuration options or […]

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Automatically resize program windows to select parameters

It sometimes feels random how program windows are rendered on the screen when you start them on a Windows PC. Some seem to remember the state they were in last time you […]

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Newsbin Pro 6.50 Review

Newsbin Pro is a commercial Usenet client. What is meant by that is that you can use the program to access the Usenet, much like you would use a program like Outlook […]

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RamExpert reveals information about your PC's RAM capabilities

While it is possible to look up how much RAM your PC has easily, for instance by paying attention to the boot process or opening the System control panel applet, it is […]

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Firefox to support Google's VP9 Codec from version 28 on

Mozilla improved Firefox's support for select audio and video formats in recent time. For a long time, it did not really matter which codecs a web browser supported and which it did […]

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TouchMousePointer adds an on-screen touchpad to Windows 8 PCs

A strong development focus in regards to Windows 8 was support for touch screens and gestures. While touch was supported in older versions of Windows to a degree, Microsoft made the decision […]

Decorate your Windows desktop for Christmas

If you like to decorate your house or apartment for Christmas by adding a Christmas Tree and another decorations around the house, you'd probably also like to do the same for your […]

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Firefox 26: broken download extensions left and right

Firefox 26 has been out for some days now, a rather unspectacular update for many users as it does not really ship with that many new or improved features. One of the […]

Could Chrome OS go password-free by February 2014?

Passwords have become both necessary and evil on the internet. We need them to protect our accounts, but many users pay less attention to them than they should -- witness the recent Adobe […]

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Postbox email client review

I have the feeling that many companies have been pushing towards web-only services in the past two or so years. While there have been online services before, like Gmail or Yahoo Mail […]

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How to sort YouTube subscriptions

I have started to use YouTube actively as a user only recently. Before that, I was using the site anonymously. This changed when I started to follow certain video creators actively on […]

Should Microsoft add the start menu back to Windows 8?

The missing start menu is without doubt one of the most controversial topics when it comes to the Windows 8 operating system. Only a few issues have caused this much controversy. If […]

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Pirate Bay plans to move to software-based solution to make domains irrelevant

I stopped counting the domain changes of the Pirate Bay website after the first two or three. It seems that the website and its contents are on the move every half year […]

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Automatically sort files into custom folders on Android with Redirect File Organizer

If you are downloading files on your Android device regularly, you know that they get saved to the downloads folder by default. The folder can grow rather quickly depending on how much […]

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How to block Gmail from displaying images in emails by default

Most email providers and programs nowadays do not display images and other data linked to third party servers by default when you open emails on their websites or in email clients. If […]

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WordPress 3.8 update comes with a new admin and default theme

A new version of the popular blogging software WordPress has just been released, introducing a new admin dashboard theme and the brand new Twenty Fourteen frontend theme. As you may know, a […]

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SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Review

SUPERAntiSpyware is a software application for Windows that can detect and remove malicious software and other unwanted software and bits of data from the system. This includes spyware, trojans, worms, rootkits and […]

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Measure your heart rate with your Android camera

You have lots of options to measure your heart rate. One of the easiest options is to measure your pulse by placing two fingers on the thumb side of the wrist until […]

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Microsoft's Telepathwords guesses (parts of) passwords that you type

If you have been using the Internet for some time, you know that password security is a serious issue nowadays. It is not a single issue though, as multiple come into play […]

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How to display the Windows Experience Index score in Windows 8

Microsoft designed the Windows Experience Index as a basic benchmark to provide Windows users with a quick way to determine their system's performance level. Components such as the PC's processor, RAM or […]

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Sandboxie Review

Sandboxie is a program for Windows that puts applications on the operating system in a sandbox to improve security. A sandbox separates programs run in it from the underlying operating system and  […]

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Microsoft Security Bulletins For December 2013 overview

The last Microsoft patch day of 2013 is here and Microsoft has just pushed the new updates to Windows Update. If you check for new updates right now, your installation of Windows […]

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How to add a sticky post in WordPress

If you hang out on web forums regularly, you know that most of them have capabilities to make posts sticky. What is meant by that is that these posts are always displayed […]

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Firefox 26: Find out what is new

Later today, Mozilla will release an update that will bring the stable channel of the Firefox browser to version 26. As with all stable updates before, we have taken a very close […]

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Fixing Firefox's Couldn't load XPCOM error message on start

When I tried to start the Firefox web browser today I received two error messages instead of the web browser. It would not start because of this, which left me puzzled for […]

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How to make sure you do not miss emails in the new Gmail interface

The new Gmail interface that divides emails into different groups such as primary, promotions, social or forums has been up for some time now. If you are using Gmail on the web, […]

Windows 8.2 Threshold: return of the real start menu and Windows apps on desktop?

When first previews of Windows 8 appeared on the Internet, it was clear that it would not just be the next iteration of the successful Windows 7 operating system. While it was […]

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Microsoft accounts get a security boost in the coming weeks

Many companies have started to improve account security features on the user side in recent years. This is a direct response to threats such as phishing and malware, both often designed to […]

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Your Google Location history, and how to disable it

If you grant Google access to your location, it may be recorded by the company depending on the Location history preference. What this means is that Google may track past locations that […]

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Multi-Account Login for Chrome lets you log in into services multiple times

If you have multiple Twitter, Facebook or Google accounts, or accounts on any other website that you have to sign in to regularly, then you know that it is not as easy […]

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Ashampoo Movie Studio Review

It is a lot easier nowadays to create digital videos than it was ten or even five years ago. Today, nearly every smartphone in existence comes with cameras and apps that you […]

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What's the Firefox Touch entry doing in the Firefox Nightly bookmarks?

If you are running a nightly channel build of the Firefox web browser currently, and it does not matter if it is the official "with" Australis build, the "without" Australis Holly build, […]

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Tab Ahead is a useful tab finder for Chrome with fuzzy logic support

When you reach a certain threshold in the Google Chrome browser in regards to tabs that are open in a given window, you will notice that they first start to appear only […]

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Improve the start screen search on Windows 8.1 with this handy tip

When it comes to features of the Windows 8.1 operating system, one that I really like is the new and improved Windows Search. You can still start to type directly on the […]

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Get a detailed log of all Thunderbird network traffic

If you are using the Thunderbird email desktop client on your system, you may have noticed that it does not really reveal a lot about connections that it makes. While you do […]