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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…

IBM Launches BitCoin Like Blockchain Technology To Get Ahead

News February 17, 2016

Or rather, International Business Machines has announced that it will be making a big push to utilise the same blockchain technology that underpins crypto currency BitCoin. In a statement on its website, IBM unleashed a slew of announcements and investments yesterday all centred around the how it will look... Read more

Datadog: Cloud Monitoring That Works

Business Software Reviews Windows February 15, 2016

What is Datadog? Essentially, Datadog is a Software-as-a-service solution that serves as focal hub that builds business metrics about you and your business based on information gathered from all your data points. It then displays this information via rather nice graphs, charts and easy to understand rolling timelines. Datadog... Read more

Female Coders Better Than Men, Latest Research Shows

Development News February 14, 2016

A study published this week has found that code written by women via GitHub is in fact more likely to be approved and accepted by their coding peers than code written by men. That is, at least when their reviewing peers don’t know they’re female… The results came as... Read more

Tech Giant Google Increases ‘Right To Be Forgotten.”

Internet News February 13, 2016

Google has said it will now hide more content that has been removed from its ‘right to be forgotten.’ The new decision will apply to all versions of the tech giants search engine results when viewed from countries that have approved the removal. Previously, the ‘right to be forgotten,’... Read more

Google Sets Date For End Of Flash Based Adverts

News February 12, 2016

As of the 2nd of January, 2017, Google will no longer display adverts made with the Adobe Flash plugin, and from June this year, Google will stop accepting adverts made with Flash. Ad makers will now have to use HTML5 for animations in adverts if they want to use... Read more

Welcome To The MS-DOS Malware Museum

News February 11, 2016

An newly built online archive of old computer malware has managed to attract thousands of visitors since it launched last week. It can be easy to think that serious malware and cybercrime are somehow products of the 21st Century. There’s hardly a week goes by without either me or... Read more

Alibaba Fails To Notice 99 Million Log-In Cyber Hack

News February 10, 2016

According to a state media report, hackers in China have attempted to gain access to more than 20,000,000 active accounts on Alibaba’s Taobao e-commerce website using the company’s own cloud computing service. Cyber crime is on the rise globally, but China has experienced a sharper rise than most other... Read more

Microsoft Trials Underwater Natick Data Center

News February 5, 2016

Meet Project Natick. Microsoft have unveiled their latest research project, and it could be a major game changer in how large companies increase the way they think about cloud computing, by submerging a 38,000-pound container a thousand meters out into the Pacific Ocean. According to Microsoft, 50% of us... Read more

Pale Moon : A Real And Fun Alternative Browser

Internet Software Reviews February 3, 2016

“Your Browser, Your way.” (Allegedly.) I’ve used a lot of different browsers over the years and I remember writing about the Linux based Pale Moon browser back in 2014, and I liked it. But now Moonchild Productions has released Pale Moon 26.0, the browser’s first big update in two years,... Read more

Alphabet (Google) Becomes World’s Richest Company

Business News February 3, 2016

Alphabet, the parent company of Google (ahem) has surprised many industry commentators by becoming the world’s most valuable company after a report has revealed its latest earnings. According to the report, Alphabet made a profit of $4.9bn for the fourth quarter of last year, and Alphabet is now worth $568... Read more

Remote Connecting Made Easy With NoMachine

Desktop Software Reviews February 3, 2016

NoMachine is a remote desktop utility designed for people of all skill levels. The ability to connect to other PC’s and devices legitimately has been around for a long time. But having used several other similar based programs such as TeamViewer, No Machine is the one I’ve managed to... Read more

Hibernate ORM Comes To FileHippo

Development News Software Reviews February 2, 2016

Most of the time you have to pay for really good specialist software, and sometimes like when you use Hibernate, it’s open source and it’s free. When it comes to framework selection with Java developers, you can be pretty sure the overwhelming response will, 9 times out of 10,... Read more

Microsoft Cloud Grows Bigger But Still Not The Biggest

News February 1, 2016

Microsoft missed the industry bandwagon shift to mobile, and its latest forecast has seen its profit margin fall by 15%, but strong growth and a relentless push toward Cloud services has seen the Redstone based company share price soar. Microsoft’s cloud business, which includes products such as its... Read more

Firefox 44 Gets Official Release And Some New Features

Internet News Software Reviews January 29, 2016

The latest version of Firefox has been officially released, and users should be prepared some new features. According to the changelog Mozilla released for Firefox version 44 everyone’s favorite fox based web browser now has Web Push notifications. This latest added trick should save users on battery power, and... Read more

200 Wikipedia Editors Back Vote Of No Confidence

Business News January 28, 2016

Nearly 200 Wikipedia editors have taken an unheard of move and have called for a new member of the Wikimedia Foundation board of directors to be tossed out, by publicly backing a vote of no confidence in the new trustee. With so many Wikipedia editors disgruntled at the apparent lack of foresight... Read more

US Military To Create Real Life Cyborg Soldiers

News January 27, 2016

The US military Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced the formation of a new research program that will eventually create “cyborg” soldiers capable of connecting and communicating directly with computers. The Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) project will be tasked with designing a human computer interface that will... Read more

Google Paid $1 Billion To Be Apple default iOS Search Engine

Internet News January 26, 2016

Court transcripts leaked to the web last week have revealed that Google allegedly paid Apple $1 billion to become the default search engine of choice for the mobile version of Apple’s Safari browser. The figure relates to the amount of money Google handed over in 2014 to gain the... Read more

Ex Firefox Boss Releases Open Source Ad-Blocking Web Browser In Brave Move

Internet News Software Reviews January 25, 2016

The newly released web browser Brave claims to be ad-free but how true is that? Brendan Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla, and also the inventor of JavaScript has unleashed his new brainchild on the internet; an ad-free web browser that automatically blocks tracking cookies, and promises a faster,... Read more