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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…

Cyber Activists Write Open Letter Against Software Backdoors

News January 25, 2016

Cyber activists from 42 separate countries have issued an open letter demanding an end to the global government efforts for software developers to deliberately insert software flaws into their programs and create so called ‘backdoors.’ Nearly 200 members of advocacy groups, experts, and tech companies have voiced their concerns... Read more

The Worst Passwords Of 2015 Revealed: People Still Using 123456!

News Privacy and Security January 21, 2016

And so here we are fresh into 2016, almost a fifth of the way into the 21st Century. The internet and the world wide web are a part of everyday life. We can land a robot on a comet, and we can talk on Skype with someone speaking a... Read more

Skype Translator Now Supports 7 Languages

News Social Media Software Reviews January 20, 2016

Microsoft promised that Skype would soon deliver a real time translation service. Now it has. The downside? It’s only available in Windows, for now anyway. Yes, that’s right. Skype Translator has been officially released to the public. Users of Skype on Windows can now hold voice-to-voice conversations with another... Read more

IBM Unveils Dynamic Pricing To Help Retailers Adjust Prices Intelligently

Business News January 19, 2016

IBM, the 114-year-old American multinational technology company, has introduced a new cloud service called ‘Dynamic Pricing,’ aimed at ensuring retailers are selling their products at the most competitive rate going. The idea of Dynamic Pricing is a deceptively simple concept. IBM’s new cloud service is designed to give retailers... 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

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

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

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

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

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

AVG Chrome Extension “Web TuneUp” Put 9 Million users at risk

Internet News January 6, 2016

The free Chrome browser extension, ‘Web TuneUp’ made and installed by Netherlands based AVG Antivirus has been unveiled as potentially security threat. Over 9 million AVG users were exposed to the bug. The recently discovered vulnerability may have allowed the personal data and browsing history of its users to be... Read more

Java 9 Release Date Now March, 2017

News January 5, 2016

Java 9 has been delayed again. The release date for the eagerly awaited Jigsaw has now been officially declared as landing in March 2017. Why the Delay? The team behind the new version of Java, are taking the extra months to make sure the final version has as many... Read more

Kaspersky Looks Back At Cyber Security Stats For 2015

News Social Media Windows January 1, 2016

2015 has been the year that the phrase “Cyber Crime” went mainstream, became cool, and also the year that saw next to exponential growth with everything and anything to do with cybersecurity. That is at least according to Kaspersky in their overall summary for the last 12 months. The... Read more

My top 5 Free Software titles of 2015

Best Software News Windows December 31, 2015

It’s been a good year for Free Software, and I knows that I do like me some good free software. This year, like every year at FileHippo we’ve done our best to bring you, the people of internet the best free software available. I’ll be honest with you, I... Read more

What Google Saw During Its Year In Search: Mostly Violent, and no Kim Kardashian

Internet News December 30, 2015

Google has released its annual Year In Search. Well, its either been a good year or a bad year depending on how 2015 went for you. For me it was pretty good all in. It was my first full year of being self employed as a fulltime freelancing digital... Read more

My Favorite FileHippo News Articles Of 2015

News December 29, 2015

Well, look at that. It’s almost the end of 2015, and it’s getting really close to that time when my wife will force me to close the lid on the laptop until January of 2016 or she will ‘break it over my head,’ if I don’t. Tis the season... Read more