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Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

Best Software Aug 28, 2024

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences, it’s…

August 24 Tech news roundup: Windows will remove Control Panel soon, Chrome gets a critical security update, Access Apple Podcasts on any browser

News Aug 24, 2024

Windows 11 Control Panel will be removed soon Microsoft has confirmed it will remove Control Panel from Windows 11. This has been coming for a long time, since 2015 to be precise. A recent update to a document on Microsoft’s website reveals that the legacy app is being deprecated, in…

July 6 Tech news roundup: Netflix is discontinuing its Basic Ad-free plan, Authy suffers another security breach, Google Translate supports 110 new languages

News Jul 6, 2024

Microsoft’s Weather app is displaying more ads Microsoft has made a server-side update to its Weather app. The desktop app, which is pre-installed in Windows 11, now displays multiple advertisements. This is not the first time that the Redmond company has made such a change, it did something similar last…

Firefox Set To Be More Like Chrome In The Future

Internet News August 24, 2015

Serious changes will soon be coming to everyone’s favorite fox themed browser, and the revolution is taking place at a fundamental level. Firefox 43, due for final release by Mozilla in December, is to make use of a new extension API, that Mozilla have decided to name as “WebExtensions.” This new API extension... Read more

Google Chrome And Windows 10 Build 10525: It’s Not Working

News Windows August 21, 2015

Google Chrome and Windows 10 appear to have fallen out with each other. But no one is forcing anyone to use Microsoft’s new Edge browser….just yet. Microsoft released the new preview of version Windows 10 build 10525 to Windows Insiders earlier this week, and it was jumped on by... Read more

5 Free Word Processor Alternatives To Microsoft Word

Office Software Software Reviews August 21, 2015

Microsoft Word dominates word processing. Seen as the global standard for business everywhere, it’s used in pretty much every office and every student bedroom the world over. But that doesn’t mean that Microsoft Word is the only option. There are literally dozens of free word processor alternatives out there. Below... Read more

AshleyMadison.com Hackers Release Details Of 33,000,000 User Accounts

News August 21, 2015

Hackers calling themselves the Impact Team, have posted 9.7 gigabytes of stolen customer details from AshleyMadison.com online for all to see. The sensitive customer information was uploaded on Tuesday, and was initially only available via the anonymising Tor Web Browser. Enterprising coders have since created websites that make it... Read more

Windows 10 Installed over 50 Million Times

News Windows August 20, 2015

In what might possibly be the most unsurprising software news ever, Microsoft’s new Windows 10 Operating System has been installed 53 million times and managed to capture almost 5% of the market in just under 3 weeks. These figures have been reported by several tech related websites in the... Read more

Lenovo Busted Again For Installing Spyware!

News Windows August 17, 2015

As if Lenovo hadn’t got in enough trouble for having sold laptops pre-loaded with its Superfish Malware back in February, it turns out now they’ve been caught out again. 2 years ago, Lenovo got itself banned from supplying IT equipment to some of the world’s largest National Security agencies because of worries... Read more

It’s Alive! Patch Tuesday Lives On For Windows 10

News Windows August 13, 2015

Despite announcing that Patch Tuesday would cease to be back in May, on Tuesday Microsoft proved that some old traditions are hard to kill, releasing as it did 4 critical bug fixes in one go that could affect Windows 10. While there were a slew of fixes across all... Read more

How Will Google’s Company, Alphabet, Affect You?

Business News August 12, 2015

Google surprised the tech world this week by announcing the creation of Alphabet, a new parent company that encompasses everything that was previously Google. But unless you own stock in Google, there’s no need to panic, or get too excited about share prices. If you don’t own a piece... Read more

Mozilla Releases New Firefox For Windows 10

Internet News Windows August 12, 2015

Mozilla have just released a new Firefox for Windows 10 in a bid to regain the initiative from Microsoft’s new default Edge browser, and also retain their user base. The new updated and ‘streamlined feel’ of Firefox for Windows 10 makes good on Mozilla’s promise to have an updated browser... Read more

Ad blocking software usage in US grows 48% in just one year: Should online advertisers be worried?

Internet News August 10, 2015

Well, yes, at least according to the latest “The cost of ad blocking” 2015 report, published on Monday. In partnership with Adobe, PageFair have released their annual findings on the state of play regarding consumers and their ever increasing use of ad blocking software. The report specifically cites Google... Read more