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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…

Ashley Madison Fined $1.6 Million For 2015 Data Breach

Business News December 21, 2016

The parent company of the Ashley Madison extra marital affair (now ‘open minded’) dating website has agreed to pay a $1.6 million penalty over its July 2015 data breach that exposed personal and payment details of 36 million of its users. The Canadian parent company named Ruby agreed to... Read more

Government Calls For Software To Stop Distracted Driving

Mobile News December 21, 2016

Distracted driving has been a plague on the automotive world ever since the invention of the cellphone, and a number of states have enacted legislation to protect the public. New advancements in driving-related technology have worked to curb the practice, but so far only by investigating and prosecuting offenders... Read more

Obama Fingers Putin Over US Election Hacking And Criticises Media

News December 20, 2016

In his final press conference of 2016, President Barack Obama pretty much accused Russian President Vladimir Putin as the mind behind Moscow’s alleged attempts to meddle in the US election. The outgoing president, who leaves office on January 20th, also used the opportunity to criticise the media for its... Read more

Why Are You Still Using That Samsung Note?

Mobile News December 20, 2016

They’ve begged, they’ve pleaded, they’ve threatened, they’ve offered you a new phone… but you still haven’t turned in your ticking time bomb of a Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Why, exactly? Is it because you like being told you can’t fly on a commercial airline with it? Because you’re hoping... Read more

Uber’s Self-Driving Dreams Are On Hold

News December 19, 2016

What could possibly be better than “hiring” a global team of contractors to drive passengers for your company while not actually paying them as your employees? Getting rid of them altogether. At least, that seems to be the ideal now that Uber has launched its self-driving car project. Think... Read more

Save Up To Half Price With Avast Christmas Offer

News December 19, 2016

Ho, ho, ho! We’ve just got the lowdown on a great Christmas Promotion from Avast on a range of great antivirus and security software. Yes that’s right, the January sales have come early at Avast, meaning that between now and the end of December you can save up to 50% on... Read more

Tech Workers Pledge Not To Help Trump Build Muslim Database

Business News December 19, 2016

More than 1,200 software engineers and tech workers from a veritable who’s who of the tech world have signed an on-line pledge not to participate or help any Donald Trump administration initiative to design or build a proposed database to track people in the US based on their race, religion... Read more

Yahoo Admits To World’s Biggest Hack affecting 1 Billion Users

Business News Privacy and Security December 16, 2016

Yahoo has admitted that more than one billion of its user accounts may have been affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013. Yahoo said the data stolen included names, phone numbers, passwords and email addresses, but crucially no credit card or bank payment details. Yahoo claims to... Read more

Are We Too Tech-Dependent?

News December 16, 2016

The recent US election has people in many countries taking a good hard look at their current lifestyles. Sales of “survival” items like guns, ammunition, prepackaged food, and vacuum-sealed even heirloom seeds are advertised everywhere you turn, and articles about stockpiling cash, gold, and other barter items are popping... Read more

Word From Our Editor: CUJO, The Next Big Thing In Cyber Protection

Privacy and Security Software Reviews December 15, 2016

Every now and then a new piece of tech comes along that stops you in your tracks and makes you say, wow, I need this in my life! CUJO is definitely one such piece of tech. Simply put, CUJO is a smart firewall that keeps your connected home (or... Read more

McAfee Finally Announces Security Flaw

Antivirus News December 15, 2016

Consumers have all the more reason to heed the warnings about updating their antivirus and antimalware software. It’s not just that it keeps you protected from threats that weren’t discovered when you first installed your software, but as security news surrounding McAfee’s VirusScan Enterprise for Linux shows, it might... Read more

Malwarebytes 3.0: Faster, Better, Free

Antivirus Software Reviews December 14, 2016

Malwarebytes 3.0 is here. I won’t lie to you, I’ve always been a big fan of Malwarebytes, and I’ve been looking forward to testing (playing with) the latest version for a while… …But it has been worth the wait? Well yes, yes it has. It may have taken a... Read more

Google Engages With Cuba In Internet Deal

Internet News December 14, 2016

Google has signed an agreement with the Cuban government giving the small communist-governed island faster internet access. As part of the new deal, Google will install its own servers in Cuba to vastly improve connection speeds to both Google services such as Gmail and YouTube, but also the internet... Read more

Google Data Centres Will Be 100% Renewables Powered In 2017

Business News December 13, 2016

Google has confirmed that it will make good on its 2015 promise to go as green as it can go. The company has said it will hit its target of offsetting 100% of the energy used at its data centres and offices against power from renewable sources, and will... Read more

Holiday Phishing Scams Strike US Consumers

Internet News December 13, 2016

Amazon has grown to be one of the world’s largest retailers and most recognized brand logos, which is reason enough for scammers to attempt to use the company for phishing emails. Joining the ranks of long-time co-victim sites like PayPal and Visa, Amazon has recently been the reported association... Read more

U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Samsung In Apple Smartphone Battle

Business Mobile News December 12, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled with a whopping 8-0 majority on Tuesday in favour of Samsung in its big-money long running smartphone feud with Apple. The court rejected an earlier ruling that Samsung must pay $399 million to Apple for copying some parts from earlier model iPhone designs. In... Read more

Tech Giants To Digitally Fingerprint Extremist Content

Internet News December 12, 2016

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and You Tube have jointly teamed up to try and prevent the spread of extremist and terrorist content through their sites. Extremist and violent content shared on social media will be digitally fingerprinted by the four tech giants to try and prevent it going viral. The... Read more