One of the things that I do not like in regards to Windows 8's new startpage is the lack of customization options. Microsoft has added lots of custom - and mostly silly […]
Google Takeout is an official service that enables Google users to export data from their Google account to their local computer system. Users can either download all account related data at once, […]
Google's document editing and hosting service Google Docs supports a variety of formats. You can upload Microsoft Office or Open Office documents for instance, to access, edit or share those documents online. […]
Of all the start menu replacements available for the Windows 8 operating system, I like Start8 from Stardock the most. The program, currently available as a beta version for Microsoft's upcoming operating […]
If you sometimes share files on Facebook, for instance in a group or your news stream, you are likely using a file hosting service to host the file, especially if you do […]
If you are following this blog regularly you know that Google is constantly working on the design of its products. The majority of these changes are usually tested using a-b tests, so […]
I have become convinced that there really isn't anywhere that the Google Street View team won't take their cameras. Â They have not only covered the actual streets around the world, but have […]
Mailstore Home is my go-to software when it comes to backing up email and migrating email between programs and computer systems. I'm using it to speed up Thunderbird by backing up and […]
Some time ago I made the decision to ditch Java completely on my system. I had to find a few replacement apps, for instance for the popular file hosting downloader JDownloader or […]
New Dropbox features and changes are often released as experimental builds to a targeted audience before they make their way into the stable version of the file synchronization client. This serves two […]
Android phones are the top-selling devices in the world today with Google recently announcing that they are currently activating 1.3 million handsets every single day. With all of the different versions of the mobile […]
If you are often irritated by surrounding noise when you are trying to work, relax or do fun things, you have probably tried various ways to block the noise. From earplugs to […]
The majority of web browser benchmarks are created by companies and organizations that develop browsers. Mozilla has its Kraken benchmark, Google its Octane benchmark, which many web developers believe are not as […]
MySpace is still a big website on the Internet. It is nowhere near as big as it has been, thanks to the rise of sites like Facebook or Google Plus, but it […]
Six weeks or 42 days, that is exactly the time it takes to release the next version of the Firefox web browser. Mozilla switched to a rapid release cycle back in June […]
With the move to Windows 8 Microsoft has not killed Media Center as many had feared they would, but they have made it much less appealing in several ways. Â The popular home […]
WinSCP is a popular sftp, scp and ftp client for the Windows operating system. I have been using the program in the past years to connect to various servers and sites that […]
With smartphone hardware coming closer together performance-wise, it is important for manufacturers to make available features that distinct a particular brand or phone from offerings of competing manufacturers. Nokia Lumia owners for […]
There are probably a dozen or so free disk analysis tools available for the Windows operating system. These programs display a visual representation of the used disk space on a hard drive […]
Browser history spam refers to scripts messing up the current tabs history by polluting it with script related entries so that the web pages that have been visited before are moved down […]
Maybe it is just me, but the majority of notifications that apps displays on Windows 8's new and shiny startpage are rather irritating and repetitive. Don't get me wrong. I can see […]
Visual BCD Editor is a free program for Vista and newer versions of the Windows operating system that is enabling you to edit the boot menu of the system. The program displays […]
Before I start looking at recent advances that Google implemented into the Windows 8 version of its Chrome web browser, I'd like to take a moment to point out that I'm still […]
Most WordPress themes iterate between two different comment background colors but do not highlight author or user comments in other ways. It may make sense to highlight author comments in the comment […]
File History is one of those new features in Windows 8 that I'm excited about. It is an opt-in feature unfortunately that may be overlooked by the majority of Windows 8 users […]
It is almost certain that public - and likely private - Bittorrent traffic is monitored to a great extent by companies that specialize in these kind of operations. Information such as IP […]
Firefox will soon receive a new feature designed to help improve the web browsers performance and stability further. The idea here is not only to accumulate and analyze data, but also provide […]
Takeover is a free strategic Flash game in which you take control of a tribe out of three that the game makes available to you. The game plays on small regional maps […]
Chrome, the popular web browser from Google, is known for being fast and reliable, but there are countless other reasons why users, especially techie-types (geeks) love this web browser. Â The software has […]
A 0-day vulnerability affecting all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer except version 10 on all supported Microsoft operating systems was revealed recently. Microsoft, aware of limited attacks targeting the vulnerability, promised to […]
Pandora Radio is a popular audio streaming website that is currently only available for users connecting from the United States (either directly or through the use of a proxy). It recently became […]
You need to be very careful when you buy websites or domains. You not only need to verify the claims made by the current owner of the website but also do extra […]
It feels kinda strange that Google has not integrated RSS feed capabilities into its social networking site Google+. I do know quite a few users who would like to subscribe to certain […]
If your Facebook news feed is filling up daily with posts from friends that you are not really that much in contact with, if at all, you may want to do something […]
Up until now Windows Store offered a straightforward experience. The store front displays a number of categories that you could click on to be taken to app listings. Here you'd then see […]
So you have got a hard drive full of movies, videos, music and all that good stuff and can't really decided what you want to watch or listen to because there is […]
Update: It is 2018 now and things have changed dramatically. HTML5 replaced Flash on most sites already so that it is no longer necessary to use extensions that enforce the use of […]
If you are not using Google Chrome as your browser on your Android smartphone you may have at least looked at Opera's offerings for the operating system. According to the statistics on […]
Windows Secrets is known by many for its newsletter that gets sound out regularly to free and paid subscribers of the site. At its core, it is a news site that is […]
A few days ago a new 0-day vulnerability was discovered that affects all versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer - but Internet Explorer 10 - on all recent versions of the Windows operating […]
