Firefox for Windows gets a web installer
If you want to download Firefox for a supported operating system right now you head over to Mozilla.
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Preview Firefox Metro UI on Windows 8
Windows 8 users for some time now can play around with a Metro UI version of the Google Chrome web browser.
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Test Firefox OS on the desktop
Mozilla in recent time has started to expand the Firefox brand from being desktop computer centric to something that is available for other device types as well.
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Mozilla ArchiveAPI: display archive contents in Firefox
Working with archives on the Internet is not the most pleasant of experiences.
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Easily Rename Windows Files with FiRE 1.0
Windows 8 doesn't make file renaming any more difficult than in previous versions of the operating system, but it doesn't make it any easier either.
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Fix Internet Explorer Runtime Errors
When I was working in tech support for a large bank I sometimes had to deal with users who received runtime error messages in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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Microsoft Answers rebranded to Microsoft Community
Microsoft appears very dedicated to rebrand many of its products and websites for the upcoming Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 launch at the end of the month.
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SlimCleaner 4.0 final released
The Windows maintenance software SlimCleaner has just been updated to version 4.
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Manage email subjects in Thunderbird
If you are sending out emails with the same subject line often, you may find Subject Manager for Thunderbird helpful in this regard.
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Windows 8: slow pre-launch adoption rate
If you want to know how well Windows 8 is doing when it comes to the operating system's adoption rate pre-launch, you best compare it to the adoption rate of pr
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Get a PC Settings Shortcut on the Windows 8 Desktop
Windows 8, which will debut on October 26th, doesn't provide users with the ability to create desktop shortcuts to modern (formerly Metro) apps.
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Yandex browser based on Chromium launches
Yandex has just released version 1.
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Move off-screen windows back into sight
I'm not sure what I did but the window of the media player VLC did open outside of the visible part of the connected computer monitor one day.
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GAuth Authenticator: use Google 2-Step Authentication without mobile phone
2-step authentication, sometimes also called 2-factor authentication, adds a second authorization step to the sign in process or other processes on the Internet.
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Download Microsoft Tech Event videos with MIXer
MIXer is a free application for the Windows operating system that makes available Microsoft tech event videos as downloads.
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Next-Gen Firefox Sync to use Mozilla Persona for identification
Mozilla is currently working on the next generation of its data synchronization service Sync and aims to release the updated version with Firefox 20.
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IObit StartMenu 8: brings back the start menu to Windows 8
If the number of programs that bring back a start menu to Windows 8 is any indicator, I'd say it is pretty certain that these programs are in high demand right
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Remove undesirable comments on YouTube
Ever since Google acquired the video hosting platform YouTube it has been criticized for the unmoderated comment section on the site.
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Cryptocat an encrypted private chat alternative
If you don't trust companies such as Google, Microsoft or Facebook when it comes to communication, for instance because of the recording of your chat conversati
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New Web Print Api lands in Firefox 18
Mozilla has just implemented a new web printing api in recent Firefox 18 Nightly builds that aims to improve the print quality in the web browser.
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Boss Rush [Game Saturday]
You can best describe Boss Rush as a reverse shoot em up game.
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Access YouTube Experimental Design from any Browser
Google is famous for their Labs, which rolls out lots of experimental software, but they also test lots of different designs for their big web properties like R
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Google's retiring of products and services continues
Since last Fall, Google shut down nearly 60 products or services.
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Make Thunderbird the chat powerhouse: add chat protocols
Mozilla added chat capabilities to Thunderbird 15, the latest stable version of the desktop email client.
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ExploitShield: new anti-exploit software for Windows
Traditional options to protect a computer from malware and exploits often rely on knowledge of the exploit or an exploit family to detect it.
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New Microsoft.com website launches
Microsoft back in June 2012 launched a preview of the upcoming Microsoft.
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Automatically sort Firefox bookmarks
Firefox bookmarks are not sorted automatically, which may be fine as long as you do not add more than a dozen or so bookmarks to a folder.
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Study finds Internet Explorer to be malware blocking king
Which web browser with its default configuration is best at blocking malware? According to a recent NSS Labs study it is Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 as it p
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iPhone 5 Launcher for Android Released
This may have been done partially as a joke, but an iPhone 5 launcher for Android devices has been released.
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Mozilla Persona Beta launched
Mozilla Persona, formerly known as BrowserID and not to be confused with the theme switching feature Personas, is Mozilla's attempt to change how users sign up
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Avira Free Antivirus 2013 released
Not everything that security company Avira did in recent times has received a positive reception by the company's user base.
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New Mozilla design mockups [September 2012]
Last month's Firefox design mockups highlighted several upcoming key features of the browser.
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Create custom Windows 8 app tiles with OblyTile
One of the things that I do not like in regards to Windows 8's new startpage is the lack of customization options.
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Google Takeout: Download YouTube video
Google Takeout is a free service that allows you to export, download, and create a backup of your data from various Google products, including Gmail, Photos, Dr
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Google Docs and Apps: doc, xls or ppt format downloads removed
Google's document editing and hosting service Google Docs supports a variety of formats.
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Stardock's Start 8 Windows Start Menu replacement to cost $4.99
Of all the start menu replacements available for the Windows 8 operating system, I like Start8 from Stardock the most.
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Share Dropbox files on Facebook
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
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YouTube Swap: switch between YouTube's current and future homepage
If you are following this blog regularly you know that Google is constantly working on the design of its products.
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Google Street View Goes Underwater at the Great Barrier Reef
I have become convinced that there really isn't anywhere that the Google Street View team won't take their cameras.
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Mailstore Home 7.1: Email backup software update available
Mailstore Home is my go-to software when it comes to backing up email and migrating email between programs and computer systems.
