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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Desktop Jan 2, 2024

Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Business Sep 1, 2022

Disclosure: Our team is always looking for things we think our readers will value. We have received compensation for publishing this article. Despite our many technological advances today, we still sit with situations where we open several apps for a task. You use one to compile a document, another one…

GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch

Video Dec 8, 2021

GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…

A Higher Calling For Open-Source Software

Development News January 18, 2016

Open-source software–or at least the concept that drives it, a world where coding expertise and technology are furthered for the good of the public instead of corporate profit–is gaining traction in a big way. Some top names in tech have even announced their support for open-source, and whole crowdfunding... Read more

Filehippo.com Now Hosting Project Management Software

News Project Management Software Reviews January 18, 2016

We thought we might try something a bit different this year and kick off 2016 with a new addition to our site: Project Management Software. As of right now, we are trialing our new Web Apps section to see what our users make of it. So far, the response and... Read more

Nest Software Glitch Deactivated Users’ Thermostats

News January 15, 2016

With the recent winter heat wave in much of the US safely behind us, now’s the time for all the social media posts complaining about the bitter cold. But the reality of winter set in accidentally for Nest users, many of whom awoke to find the heat shut off... Read more

Microsoft Ends Support For Windows 8

News January 15, 2016

There was a plethora of news released by Microsoft on Tuesday. As well as Tuesday January 12 being the first patch Tuesday of 2016, it was also the last day that the company announced it would be supporting the Windows 8 operating system. In the same announcement, Microsoft also... Read more

Forbes Asks Online Readers To Disable Ad Blockers Then Hands Out Malware

Internet News January 14, 2016

Ad blocking software usage in the US grew by 48% last year alone. Advertising is an everyday fact of life on the internet, but more and more users are using ad blocking software to evade seeing them at all. From the perspective of a web publisher, you can probably... Read more

PotPlayer Media Player Does It All

Multimedia Software Reviews Video January 14, 2016

In an effort to provide the best multimedia experience possible for tech users of every need, a lot of developers have put out media player software. And while they can all claim to be the best, the fact of the matter remains that so many of these players are... Read more

AVG Vulnerability Could Have Allowed Hackers To Easily Steal Passwords

News January 13, 2016

Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy has taken AVG developers to task over genuine security risks that could have allowed hackers to infiltrate users web browsers. We covered the story last week of how Ormandy discovered that AVG’s free Web TuneUp Chrome browser extension was a potential security threat, that... Read more

Update Your iPhone And Get Some Zzzzzzs

Mobile News January 13, 2016

In the race to put out the latest and greatest in technological innovation, there are a handful of times when developers release a product then have to sit back and think, “Maybe we should have thought that through.” Sometimes it’s platforms like MySpace. Other times it’s updated operating systems... Read more

Tesla Update Is One Step Closer To Fully Autonomous Cars

News January 12, 2016

The original vision for self-driving cars–and we mean Disney’s EPCOT center or the World’s Fair, not Google’s vision of the reality of autonomous cars–was that would all recline our seats on a long drive and sleep away the trip to Grandma’s, or that blind individuals would now have their... Read more

Game Piracy Has Just 2 Years Left

Gaming News January 12, 2016

The founder of the infamous Chinese based cracking forum 3DM has said that the days of people playing pirated games are drawing to a close, because it’s just becoming too difficult. The issue for game pirates is that the encryption software being used by game developers is becoming harder... Read more

Who Needs Privacy Anymore? Apparently, No One.

News January 11, 2016

The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is underway in Las Vegas, and it’s already had its fair share of attention. With all eyes in the tech industry turned to the desert for the latest news, innovations, tech announcements, and just plain cool stuff, there’s bound to be some buzz.... Read more

Microsoft Ends Support For Internet Explorer 8,9 And 10

Internet News January 11, 2016

Redmond tech giant, Microsoft has finally decided to kill off its older versions of Internet Explorer. Support for IE 8,9, and 10 will officially end on January 12th. “Customers have until January 12, 2016, to upgrade their browser, after which time the previous versions of Internet Explorer will reach... Read more

Ian Murdock, Debian Linux Founder Dies Aged 42

News January 11, 2016

Debian GNU/Linux founder Ian Murdock has died. He was just 42. The world at large became aware of his passing via a blog post on the Docker website, where Murdock had only recently started as a member of their technical staff. Murdock was best known for launching the open-source... Read more

Is It Bach, Or Sony’s AI?

Music News January 9, 2016

If you want your kid to do well in math, experts have long said that studying music may be the way to go. A new artificial intelligence (AI) project from Sony’s Computer Science Laboratories has produced results that pretty much prove the connection between some styles of classical music and... Read more

BlackBerry Builds Software To Power SelfDriving Cars

News January 8, 2016

While their phones may no longer be the go-to device of connected individuals everywhere, BlackBerry is far from done with technology and innovation. The same people who arguably launched the smartphone market back in the day are making a bold appearance at CES this year with software that could... Read more

Ed Tech: Screen Readers For Visually Impaired Students

News January 7, 2016

Technology was supposed to be one of the great equalizers in education, specifically in the realm of providing digital textbooks, distance learning opportunities, and other initiatives to outlying and impoverished schools. Distance and funding obstacles were supposed to be stripped away by the ability to connect to a classroom... Read more

Windows 10 Installed on 200 Million Devices Globally

News Windows January 7, 2016

Windows 10, Microsoft’s flagship OS is now active on more than 200,000,000 devices monthly. This is big news for the Redmond based company that only launched the new version of Windows back in August. According to the official Windows Experience blog, Windows 10 is now on the fastest ever... Read more

Geofencing No-Fly Zones For Drones

News January 6, 2016

Drones are pretty cool, when you think about it. Despite their current pop status as a hobbyist tool and source of entertainment, the military has already employed drones in mission critical situations and law enforcement agencies are already working with the possibilities for disarming tense scenarios with less risk... Read more