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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery
Desktop Jan 2, 2024
Who doesnât 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…
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GOM Mix Maxâs 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…
NSA Ends Mass Surveillance Of US Citizens
News December 3, 2015
As of last Saturday, 28th November, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has finally stopped directly collecting the information of the phone calls and metadata of millions of US citizens. A US Justice Department statement released Saturday stated that: âFinal temporary reauthorization of the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata... Read more
So the good news is that the Cortana iOS Beta is here. The bad news is that only 2,000 people get to test it out. Windows Insiders were given the opportunity to sign up for the Cortana iOS Beta via a short survey at the start of November. Â The... Read more
Microsoft has come clean about the action it recently took to pull the eagerly anticipated first major Windows 10 Update According to Microsoft, the Windows 10 Update for November in its original form might have reset four important privacy settings back their original default settings, but without informing the... Read more
Convicted software pirate, âJakub F,â has been given one of the weirdest punishments ever seen in a copyright infringement case… In order to avoid a more severe punishment, and because he was unable pay damages, the presiding judge in the case ordered him to make an anti-piracy video…that he... Read more
Raspberry Pi Computer To Be Given Away Free In Magazine.
News November 26, 2015
The latest version of the UK Raspberry Pi has, according to some sources, âbecome the first computer to be given away free with a magazine.â No, really, itâs true. The Pi Zero is so cheap that monthly MagPi magazine is giving it away free with the latest edition. As... Read more
Yahoo has started to prevent some of its Yahoo-Mail users accessing their email if they use ad-blocking software in their browser. Several hundred users in the US have encountered a message that asks them to disable their ad-blocker before being allowed to  access their Yahoo Mail. âPlease disable Ad... Read more
Russian PM Bans State Agencies From Using âForeignâ Software
News November 24, 2015
On Friday, the Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev signed an order that will effectively ban the use of foreign made software from all state and municipal agencies, from January 2016. The order was published on the Russian governmentâs official website the same day. Exceptions to the new rule will only... Read more
Create, resize, copy, format and split partitions with ease Itâs a fact of life that hard drives just keep getting bigger. But while all that extra space allows you to install more programs and store more information than ever before, it also makes it a whole lot harder to... Read more
Ofcom, the independent UK communications regulator, has released a report about children and their interaction with the internet. The âChildren and parents: Media use and attitudes report 2015,’ has found that children spend twice as much time online as they did 10 years ago. That statistic will come as... Read more
VirusTotal Lets Apple Fans Play With Fire In The Malware Sandpit
InternetMacNewsPrivacy and Security November 19, 2015
Googleâs VirusTotal has begun running Mac apps in Sandpit environments to test for malware and malicious activity. The move has come not a moment too soon for many Apple users. Malware, and especially adware is at an all-time high. A report released in October by Bit9, claimed that more... Read more
Microsoft Launches Affordable Internet Fund For Underserved Markets
Internet November 18, 2015
Microsoft has announced its launch of a new fund with the intention of helping startups and commercial companies to offer access to affordable Internet in “underserved markets.” Microsoftâs new Affordable Access Initiative will offer grants to commercial enterprises that that can prove demonstrable scalable solutions, which can facilitate access to... Read more
Future of Tool That Brings Android Apps to Windows In Doubt Project Astoria, Microsoftâs code name for its Android app porting tool, looks like it might have been kicked into the long grass, with Microsoft shifting its focus to iOS instead. It was only back in April of this... Read more
Firefox, the 2nd most used web browser in the world has finally become available for Apple iOS devices. As FileHippo reported back in September, the company behind Firefox, Mozilla had been trialing the app exclusively in New Zealand. But it was only 2 years ago that Mozilla rejected the idea of a Firefox browser... Read more
Belgian Court Gives Facebook 48 Hours To Stop Tracking Users Not On Facebook
NewsSocial Media November 12, 2015
Facebook given ultimatum to change or be fined âŹ250k per day! On Monday, a Belgian court gave Facebook just 48 hours to stop tracking internet users who donât have accounts with the social media giant. If they fail to comply, or choose to ignore the court order, Facebook could... Read more
Talk Talk’s chief executive, Dido Harding, has revealed that 157,000 of its customers personal details has been accessed and stolen by hackers On October 21st, Talk Talk one of the UK’s major telecoms groups became yet another victim of hacking. As a result of the hack, more than 15,000... Read more
Creator of BitCoin Nominated for Nobel Prize. But Does Anyone Know Who He Is?
News November 11, 2015
 The inventor of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been nominated for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name given to the person who invented the ubiquitous BitCoin currency. Whether individuals and governments see it as the future of some sort of non regulated economic personification of personal freedom, or the... Read more
Microsoft Cleans Up Windows Store Spam
News November 10, 2015
Anyone whoâs ever spent some serious time looking through the Windows Store will have noticed one issue with it in particular: That issue of the useless spam ridden reviews that hinder us all when trying to decide if an app or program is actually any good. Youâd think that... Read more
Windows 10 Preview members got their hands on the new build of Windows 10 for testing. Rumors had been doing the rounds on the Internet this last week or so, that Microsoft is finally going to release the first ârealâ update for Windows 10 in the next few days.... Read more