Dropbox 2.8.0 offers better large Dropbox handling on client systems
The cloud backup provider Dropbox is about to release a new version of its desktop client software for all supported operating systems.
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Github's Atom Text Editor builds for Windows
Atom is an open source text editor by Github that is provided as prebuilt versions for Mac OS X 10.
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Twitter improves account security, improves password reset
It can be difficult to keep up with security changes made by services and websites that you are a member of.
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Panda Cloud Antivirus Free 3.0 review
Panda Cloud Antivirus is a popular security program for the Windows operating system by Panda Security.
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Yahoo News Digest review
Yahoo launched the Yahoo News Digest application for iOS four month ago.
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How secure are different Online Banking payment authorization methods?
I have worked in tech support for a big German bank before I started my work as a full time blogger.
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Printing Tools for Thunderbird improve email printouts
The Printing Tools extension for the Thunderbird email client improves how emails are printed on the system.
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How to analyze networking data with Firefox
A lot happens when you open a website in the Firefox web browser.
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Antivirus is not the only problem, the user is too
There is no question about it, antivirus software is not very effective.
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Selecting Bing search in Chrome changes New Tab Page
If you set Bing as the default search provider in Google Chrome Canary, a custom New Tab Page is automatically enabled in the browser as well.
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How to add custom user variables to Windows to load folders faster
This guide explains how to set up custom variables in Windows that you can use to open or reference folders faster.
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Opera 21: always display full url in address bar
The most recent stable version of the Opera browser can display full page urls at all times now in the browser.
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DuckDuckGo search redesign beta now with image and video search
The DuckDuckGo search engine has a new minimalistic design with a fixed header on search result pages that is currently in beta.
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Notify! displays Android notifications on the lockscreen
I have configured my Android phone to lock the phone automatically when I hit the power button, and after a certain period of inactivity.
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Firefox corrects protocol typos now
When it comes to entering addresses in Firefox's urlbar, I experience two common issues.
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Streamus for Chrome plays YouTube videos in the background
While I do not listen to music while I'm writing, as it distracts me from the task, I like to listen to music while I'm doing other stuff on the PC.
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How to avoid the Ask Toolbar offer when you are installing Java
When you are installing Java on your Windows system or update the application when a new version is released, you may receive an offer to install the Ask Toolba
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How to force fullscreen games to play in windowed mode
I like to play classic computer games from time to time and purchase them most of the time on Good Old Games.
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Google removes editing functionality from Google Drive app
Google launched two new Android apps recently called Docs and Sheets which came as a surprise to some as they clashed functionality-wise with the existing Googl
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AV Comparatives analysis of Data Transmission of security products
If you are running antivirus software on your system, or another type of security software, chance is good that quite a bit of data is transmitted from your sys
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Firefox's sponsored tiles will look like this
When Mozilla announced in February that it would add so-called Directory Tiles to new versions of Firefox, it was criticized for it.
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Google Now update keeps cards loaded if Internet connection drops
If you are using Google Now on your Android device, you know that it does not work well if your device is in offline mode.
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Tell Mozilla how you feel about Firefox 29 Australis
When Mozilla published the update to Firefox last Tuesday, it updated the stable version of the browser to the new interface Australis.
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Disable "you have new apps that can open this type of file" in Windows 8
Whenever you install a new application on Windows 8 that can be used as the default handler for file types or protocols, and you open a file of that type afterw
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Privacy Badger: Chrome and Firefox website tracker blocker
Privacy Badger is a new browser extension for Chrome and Firefox by the EFF that can block spying ads and trackers on websites.
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Firefox 30: These plugins are temporarily whitelisted
Mozilla will set all Firefox plugins except whitelisted ones to click to play by default from Firefox 30 on.
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0-day Internet Explorer vulnerability patch ships today, even for XP
Now that is unsuspecting.
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Google Chrome experiment displays only the domain in the urlbar
Simplification seems to be an ongoing trend, not only when it comes to web browsers but I notice it the most here.
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Facebook Anonymous Login: what is it?
Third-party developers can make use of Facebook's new anonymous login feature as well as an improved Facebook Login feature to provide users with options to log
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Google Docs application for android released
Google has just released Google Docs for Android.
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How to add dictionaries to Google Chrome's spell checker
When you install Google Chrome, a default language and dictionary file is automatically installed during the process.
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How to upload select Gmail attachments automatically to cloud storage
It can be quite beneficial to move select Gmail email attachments directly to a cloud storage provider such as Google Drive, Dropbox or Microsoft's OneDrive.
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Mozilla removes tab close button preference from Firefox
Firefox displays the close button next to each tab by default in the most recent version.
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FreeOCR is an optical character recognition software for Windows
If you ever had to copy text of an image or scanned document, you know that you have two basic options to do so.
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How to combine Firefox address and search bar
Firefox is one of the few remaining web browsers that offers both an address bar and a search bar.
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Microsoft increases OneDrive Business storage size to 1TB from 25GB
OneDrive for Business was launched as a standalone service by Microsoft on April 1, 2014.
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Textbox Tamer saves text form sizes in Chrome
Text forms come in all sizes on the Internet, from large text editor like forms to small forms that display scroll bars when text exceeds what the text field ca
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Firefox 29 (new interface) released: Find out what is new
Firefox 29 ships with an interface redesign called Australis, a new customization mode that goes along with it, and a redesigned Firefox Sync synchronization fe
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How to test a new Firefox version before your browser is upgraded
Whenever you upgrade your version of Firefox, there is a chance that things will break or work in a different way.
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What you can do against Internet Explorer's latest 0-day vulnerability (April 2014)
Microsoft released a security advisory on Saturday that informs customers about a disclosed vulnerability affecting all versions of the company's web browser In
