Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
If you want to convert media files on a Windows PC you will have to use third-party software for that as the operating system does not really support a lot of video […]
Media Source Extensions (MSE) is a specification that enables JavaScript to generate media streams for playback. The most prominent website that requires Media Source Extensions for some functionality is YouTube. If you […]
When Microsoft launched Windows 8 several companies, Google, Mozilla and VLC for example, decided to create app-versions of their desktop programs. While that did not turn out to well for most who […]
Microsoft has launched its Windows Insider Program a moment ago which lets you test new Windows versions before they are released, and in today's case a preview version of Windows 10. It […]
Depending on how you use your Windows PC and where videos that you want to play on it come from, you may have no troubles doing so or may notice that some […]
When Microsoft released its Windows 8 operating system with a store component everything looked great on first glance. Since Microsoft would review all apps before they were made available to users, malicious […]
When the first personal home pages came up back when the Internet started to get traction outside the academic and military world, animated gifs were one of the few means to add […]
If you are the administrator of a Windows PC, for instance the family PC at home or PCs at work, you may need to restrict to certain features of the operating system […]
Do you know how you spend time on the computer? How much time you spend using apps, which websites you visit, and how work and non-related activities stand in relation? A time-tracking […]
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 afterwards or […]
Depending on how you use your computer, you may be able to recover quite a bit of storage space when you clean temporary files regularly. The most popular program for the job […]
Windows store is plagued by VLC Media player rip-offs and copies. If you search for VLC in store for example, you find several that use the official name and logo, but are […]
Depending on how you play or view media files on your system, you may never run into any issues playing or viewing them, or experience issues occasionally were files cannot be loaded […]
Anyone still using a tweaking software? Back when I started using Windows, I used programs to tweak the hell out of the system. The programs allowed me to make a lot of […]
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 […]
The Best Windows Software Toplist On this page, you find a listing of the best Windows software. Most of the applications listed here are free, with the occasional commercial program added to […]
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 […]
If you have worked with Windows 8 before you have likely browsed the integrated Windows Store at least once to see what is on offer there. I personally think that Microsoft missed […]
Most media players behave exactly the same way regardless of file you load into them. While you may be able to make a couple of adjustments based on the codec needed to […]
The popular program VLC Media Player has just been upgraded to version 2.1.0. The new version is already available on the official Videolan website and considered a major upgrade by the developers. […]
VLC Media Player is without doubt one of the most popular free video players. Much of the appeal comes from the fact that it plays nearly any audio or video file that […]
Who will use the Windows 8 app store? That was the first question that came to my mind when Microsoft announced that its newest operating system would ship with an integrated store. […]
Windows 8.1, just like Windows 8, ships with Windows Media Player by default. The program has been crippled by Microsoft as it does not play DVD movies anymore. You may remember that […]
A system cleaner removes unnecessary files from the PC when it is run. It takes care of temporary files like Internet browsing caches or leftovers after Windows Updates. The effect is a […]
I prefer to watch movies and television shows in their original language whenever possible as I believe that voice synchronization is always inferior to that. Plus, it saves me from having to […]
Many popular file synchronization and hosting services such as Dropbox, Google Drive or SkyDrive ship with media streaming and viewing capabilities. These services have been built on top of a service's basic […]
Back in June I mentioned that Windows Store had its fair share of what I called then media player spam. This referred to dozens of media player apps that were designed to […]
While I'm still waiting for the Metro version of VLC Media Player to be released for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, I'm keeping a close eye on the development of the desktop […]
If you do not have a supported keyboard with media keys you do not have any option whatsoever to control the Spotify application when the program window is not active. To give […]
VLC Media Player is one of the two players on my Windows system that I use all the time (the other is SMPlayer). Why two players and not only one? Because both […]
You have a lot of options when it comes to playing music for free on the Internet. From tuning in to Internet Radio stations over using video hosting sites like YouTube to […]
Windows users have lots of choice when it comes to media players. They can run Windows Media Player or use a third party media player like VLC, SMPlayer or one of the […]
Microsoft introduced an improved taskbar with the release of Windows 7. The taskbar enabled users of the operating system to pin programs and items to the taskbar where they acted like shortcuts. […]
If your computer has seen better days in terms of performance, you may be interested in running programs on it that are as light as possible on the system resources they use […]
If you have a large movie or TV show collection at home, either on hard drives or in form of CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, you may be interested in a management […]
For the past couple of days I have experienced a strange error whenever I tried to play videos in an application on Windows 8. I always received the "The video failed to […]
If you do not pay attention during app and software installations on Windows 8, you may end up with the wrong program being the default application that files open with. This is […]
It feels kinda strange that Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 8 comes without options to play DVD or Blu-Ray movies out of the box. It may make sense from Microsoft's perspective, as […]
VLC Media Player is without doubt one of the most popular multimedia players. Part of the popularity comes from the fact that it supports nearly every media format out of the box, […]
The popular media player VLC is currently only available for the desktop part of the Windows 8 operating system, and here only on systems running Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise, […]
