Google has been in the news a lot recently, and much of it has been for all of the wrong reasons. The vast majority of that news has swirled around the decision […]
Depending on where you live, you may not be able to access select websites or services available on the Internet. This is not limited to countries where you would expect Internet censorship […]
Google Chrome, like any other modern web browser, supports tabs that enable users of the browser to open more than one website or service at a time in the same browser window. […]
The idea to use the cloud to scan the running processes or autostart entries of a system is not an entirely new concept. The excellent - and free - Slim Cleaner does […]
One of the great features of Dropbox is the ability to share files that you host on the server with other users. You can share folders with other users which basically gives […]
We all know that Google is constantly tweaking, testing and experimenting with the layout of its search engine results page. I'm not only talking about the interface surrounding the results but also […]
In today's world, the majority of users handle multiple devices. A desktop PC, notebook, tablet and smartphone are just some examples. Add to that media boxes, gaming consoles and even a connected […]
If you are using Windows 8 or have tested it for some time you have probably tested a few Windows Store apps to get a feel for what they have to offer […]
The RSS Reader Feedly seems to have been a favorite choice of Google Reader users looking for a new home for their feeds, as more than 500,000 users made the switch to […]
Google Translate is a popular web service that enables you to translate phrases, articles or entire websites into different languages. The machine-based translation service is regarded as one of the best of […]
Several companies, Google, Facebook and Twitter to name three, offer their own authentication services to third party websites. What this means is that you can register an account on third party websites […]
Google is continuing to advance its Chrome web browser with today's release of version 26 to the stable channel. That means that the beta channel, which I use, will soon be getting […]
Several cloud storage services use encryption to protect data of user accounts from being accessed by third parties. While this may be reassuring for many users, some prefer to add encryption of […]
Most Android apps use a caching feature to store temporary data on the device. A basic example is a web browser that saves visited web pages to the cache to open them […]
Depending on how you have configured your phone - and which smartphone you use - you may be using the instant uploads feature of Google+ that uploads photos that you take with […]
Mozilla back in November 2012 improved Firefox's private browsing feature by adding per-window private browsing to the web browser. Firefox had to close down completely prior to that if a user launched […]
The screenshot taking tool Screenshot Captor 4.0 by Mouser of Donation Coder has been released today. We all know that the default options in Windows to create screenshots are far from ideal. […]
When you ask tech savvy users which programs they use to remove temporary files on their Windows system, it is likely that the list they provide you with includes CCleaner. It is […]
Windows 8 users who have been actively using the Calendar app of the operating system may be in for a surprise if they have configured the app to sync data with their […]
The Internet would not be the same without cookies. These little text snippets are used for a variety of purposes, most notable to store session information but also for preferences and other […]
If you are a veteran user of Dropbox you know that you can make use of the so-called public folder which you can use to share individual files or folders automatically with […]
You can improve the security of your online accounts by following a few simple password rules. Important in this regard are for instance the rules to never use the same password multiple […]
The process of adding bookmarks in web browsers has not really been touched in the last decade or so. You can either use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-D to bookmark the active website […]
Dropbox back in January 2013 started to upgrade users to a new photo feature that improved the service's photo viewing and sharing capabilities. The two major changes are the ability to create […]
One of the many new features that Microsoft added to Windows 7 was a new backup and recovery feature that users of the operating system could make use of to backup files […]
Toolbars have been quite useful in the past, and with that I mean ten or more years ago. The Google Toolbar for instance, available for many browsers at that time, added lots […]
And here goes another product feature. Google has been retiring many of its products, services and product features in recent time in several so-called Spring cleaning rounds. The company only recently announced […]
Rumors about Microsoft's strategy for the next version of Windows was all we had until recently. Some job postings highlighted that Microsoft is working on Windows 9 and Windows Blue. From the […]
By the title above I did not mean to imply that people are pirating their anti-virus software. While some likely do, there is probably not much that could be worse than running […]
It appears that media rights groups are still convinced that blocking sites or terminating accounts is the way to go in regards to the thriving P2P scene on today's Internet. It all […]
I have switched the main search engine from Google or Bing to DuckDuckGo in all of my browsers. There is not one but several reasons for that: from preferring unfiltered results over […]
Bing has a lot of great features under its hood that do not get advertised openly by Microsoft or the Bing Team. Did you know that it offers RSS feeds for all […]
If you are a regular on Reddit you know that the site is not only about news and discussion of news, but also about other things of interest to part of the […]
If you are following the Game Saturday series regularly you know that I love to play shoot em up games. I do not really know where this obsession comes from, maybe from […]
The past week or so has been a whirlwind for Google Reader fans -- which seem to be much more numerous than Google led us to believe when it announced that the […]
Nearly every website that you encounter on the Internet these days links to one or multiple social networking sites. Sometimes in the form of direct links, but more often than not in […]
JavaScript benchmarks and speed comparisons seem to have taken a backseat after they have been en vogue for the first two years or so after Google published Chrome's first public version in […]
The social media niche is a crowded one. We have Facebook, Twitter and maybe even Google Plus at the top, specialized and popular networks like Instagram or Pinterest, and many niche-based social […]
Ken Saunders mentioned his great experience with Bing Support recently here on the site. He pasted an email that he received from Bing Support at the end of his comment that contained […]
So, you are reading this great article and it links to all this other great resources that you want to read. Different users handle this task in different ways. Some open all […]
