DuckDuckGo for Mac is now available for all users

DuckDuckGo for Mac is now available for everyone, it comes with Duck Player for blocking YouTube ads

DuckDuckGo for Mac is now available for all users. The browser was released in April this year in a closed beta in invite-only basis. It's still in beta phase, but now you […]

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Mozilla rushes to address an Avast bug that causes crashes in Firefox

Thousands of Firefox users reported crashes of the Firefox web browser to Mozilla, the maker of the browser. The, often angry user comments, all reported that Firefox had crashed out of a […]

Apple releases macOS Monterey 12.6, iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7 with Security Updates

Apple releases macOS Monterey 12.6, iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7 with security updates

Apple has released macOS Monterey 12.6, iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7. The updates bring a number of critical security fixes for Macs, iPhones and iPads. Security fixes in macOS Monterey 12.6 The […]

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Google releases Chrome 105 emergency update to address security issue

Google released an emergency update for the company's Chrome web browser on September 2, 2022. The update addresses a security issue in the browser that is rated high and exploited in the […]

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Apple releases macOS Monterey 12.5.1, iOS 15.6.1 and iPadOS 15.6.1 with zero-day security fixes

Apple has released the macOS Monterey 12.5.1 update for eligible devices. It has been released along with iOS 15.6.1 and iPadOS 15.6.1 updates for supported iPhones and iPads. What's new in the […]

Open links in the browser of your choice quickly with Velja for macOS

Open links in the browser of your choice quickly with Velja for macOS

When you have multiple browsers installed on your computer, but want to open a link in a specific browser, what do you do? Well, you open the browser and paste a link […]

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Stage Manager in macOS Ventura can be useful, but it takes up too much space on the screen

Stage Manager is macOS Ventura's most talked about feature, and for good reason. As Apple pointed out in its demo, your Mac can quickly get cluttered if you have a lot of […]

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Firefox 101.0.1 fixes issues in Mac, Windows and Linux versions

Mozilla Firefox 101.0.1 will be released later today (if you are reading this on June 9, 2022). The new point release of Firefox Stable fixes three main issues and several smaller issues, […]

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Orion browser for macOS is now available in public beta, it supports Firefox and Chrome extensions

Orion is a new web browser for macOS that has entered public beta testing. The app from Kagi, uses Apple's Webkit engine and includes a lot of customization options. Since it is […]

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Windows Server out-of-band update addressing authentication issues released

Microsoft released updates for various Windows Server versions that address issues that were experienced after installation of the May 2022 security updates. The updates address the authentication issues and the Microsoft Store […]

Opera 86 brings URL categories in Address Bar, Text Snapshot and Crop Tool

Opera 86 brings URL categories in Address Bar, Text Snapshot and Crop Tool

Opera browser has been updated to version 86 in the stable channel. The patch brings a refined address bar, and a couple of useful additions to the application's built-in screen capture utility. […]

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Here's a quick tour of DuckDuckGo for Mac

DuckDuckGo browser for Mac was released in beta about a week ago. I got an invite after opting into the waitlist, and tested the browser. Here are my first impressions of the […]

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DuckDuckGo browser for Mac is now available in beta (via waitlist)

DuckDuckGo browser for Mac has been released in beta. The search provider had revealed its plans to release a desktop browser in December 2021. DuckDuckGo for Mac - an overview It comes […]

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Microsoft says Powerdir vulnerability in macOS could have given attackers access to user data

The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has revealed that it discovered a security vulnerability in macOS Monterey. This is the 2nd time the Redmond company discovered a security issue in macOS, after […]

DuckDuckGo browser is coming to macOS and Windows

DuckDuckGo browser is coming to macOS and Windows

A new entrant is emerging in the browser wars, but from a familiar source. The makers of the privacy-focused search engine, DuckDuckGo, have revealed that they are working on a desktop browser. […]

VeraCrypt 1.25 drops Windows 8.1 and 7, and Mac OS 10.8 and earlier support

VeraCrypt 1.25, a new version of the open source cross-platform encryption software, is now available. The new version is the first release of the application for over a year; the last release […]

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Windows 11 Enterprise Virtual Machine images downloads

Windows 11 Enterprise virtual machine images are now available. You can download the images for several popular virtualization applications directly from Microsoft's Developer website. Note that the virtual images include more than […]

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Macrium Reflect 8 Free is now available

Paramount Software UK Limited released commercial editions of Macrium Reflect 8 some time ago. The free version, Macrium Reflect 8 Free, is now also available. Macrium Reflect 8 Free is compatible with […]

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Firefox 94.0.1 fixes a browser hang issue on Mac OS X 10.12

Mozilla released Firefox 94, a new stable version of the organization's web browser, earlier this week. Today, Mozilla plans to roll out the Firefox 94.0.1 update to the stable channel to address […]

Apple iOS Security Update to prevent ForcedEntry exploit

Apple releases emergency updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS 7.6.2 to prevent Pegasus spyware

Apple has released an emergency update for iOS devices and macOS computers, to patch a serious security vulnerability that has come to light. The exploit is called FORCEDENTRY, and affects all iOS […]

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Firefox Translations 0.4 released: offline machine-based translations for Firefox

Mozilla is working on a machine-based translation engine, codename Project Bergamot, that is funded by the European Union. One of the main distinguishing factors of the project is that it does not […]

Avira Free Security for Mac is an excellent security software for Apple Macintosh devices

Avira Free Security for Mac is a free antivirus, security and privacy solution for Apple Macintosh devices that protects Macs reliably from attacks. Macs do need security software as devices running Mac […]

Swifty is an open source and offline password manager for Windows, MacOS and Linux

Swifty is an open source and offline password manager for Windows, MacOS and Linux

Many people are switching from LastPass, and looking for suitable alternatives. The popular choice seems to be Bitwarden, though I prefer an offline tool like KeePass. But those aren't the only options […]

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Cloudflare Warp: beta clients for Windows and Mac are now available

Internet company Cloudflare launched its 1.1.1.1 DNS service to the public on April 1, 2018. Besides using one of the easiest to remember IP addresses, Cloudflare promised that 1.1.1.1 would be one […]

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First look at Firefox's upcoming address bar update

Mozilla plans to release an update for Firefox soon that changes several address bar related features, including the behavior of one-off searches and search aliases. Called Design Update 2, some of the […]

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Chrome 86 hides protocol and www in address bar by default

The address bar is an essential part of a web browser; it reveals the URL of the page that is open in the browser, and Internet users have used it since the […]

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How to delete Chrome address bar suggestions with the mouse

Google's Chrome web browser displays suggestions as soon as you start to type in the browser's address bar (Google calls it omnibar). These suggestions come from the browsing history, bookmarks, and also […]

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Criptext is a free encrypted email service with open source apps for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS

Criptext is a free encrypted email service for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. It has been around for a while, but I thought it may be worth looking into. Before we […]

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GNS3 is an open source graphical network simulator for Windows, Linux and macOS

GNS3 is a graphical network simulator which lets you to create a virtual network. You don't need any hardware like routers, switches, or even endpoints (workstation computers). This open source tool can […]

LazPaint is an open source raster graphics editor for Windows, macOS and Linux

LazPaint is an open source raster graphics editor for Windows, macOS and Linux

Recently we tested out an easy to use image editor called Zzpaint which we liked even though it was a relatively simple program. Today, I'm going to look at LazPaint which is […]

File Commander is an open source file manager for Windows, Linux and macOS

File Commander is an open source file manager for Windows, Linux and macOS

We have seen some retro-like file managers in the past. Let's take a look at File Commander, another file management tool. Its interface may look familiar if you have used Total Commander […]

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Buttercup is an open source password manager for Windows, macOS, Linux, Firefox and Chrome

There is no shortage in supply when it comes to password managers, but not all of them are open source. Buttercup is a free password manager, which is open source and offers […]

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A Windows port of Apple Mac's Mojave Dynamic Desktop feature

WinDynamicDesktop is a free open source program for Windows 10 that brings Apple Macintosh's Mojave Dynamic Desktop feature. Mojave Dynamic Desktop is a new feature of Apple's Macintosh operating system that alters […]

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Extract email addresses and other data from files on Windows

RegexCaptor is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices that you may run on any number of files to extract email addresses and other data from them. The program was created to […]

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Microsoft releases out-of-band security updates to address Intel bug

Microsoft released out-of-band security updates for Windows yesterdays that address a recently revealed major security bug in Intel, AMD and ARM processors. The updates are filed under the IDs KB4056888 , KB4056890. […]

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Avast releases machine-code decompiler RetDec

Computer security heavyweight Avast released its machine-code decompiler RetDec as an open source tool to the public recently. The company worked on RetDec for seven years, and released the decompiler "to help […]

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Tor on Linux/Mac may leak IP (update available)

Tor users who use the Tor browser on Linux or Mac OS X devices may want to update the program to version 7.0.9 as soon as possible to plug a potential IP […]

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How to convert Windows installations to virtual machine images

There are quite a few use cases for wanting to convert a Windows installation to a virtual machine image; maybe you want to run tests on the virtual image afterwards, for instance […]

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Windows 10: 500 million machines and counting

Microsoft Corporation revealed today that the company's operating system Windows 10 is running on 500 million computer systems. The company's initial plan back in 2015 when the operating system was released was […]

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Convert Windows XP to a virtual machine with VirtualXP

Microsoft abandoned Windows XP some months ago and while some users moved on to other operating systems, others are still running windows XP. The main issue here is that Microsoft won't release […]