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Your laptop most probably carries more than just travel photos and memories from your holidays. Using it to stay in touch, watch movies, or navigate your way around an unknown location during your vacation adventures, it’s no surprise that digital clutter builds up. From downloading huge files and accessing unfamiliar…
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…
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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…
Last week, I asked (perhaps rhetorically) if Microsoft’s push for people to ditch Windows XP will ever end. I suppose I can keep asking that, as Microsoft is supposed to launch a Windows XP warning popup on the 8th of March; and it’s supposed to look like the screenshot... Read more
A severe bug in the open-source GnuTLS library, which is used by lots of Linux variants, will undermine the encryption which keeps Web traffic secure from attacks and is similar to the “goto fail” bug in Apple OS, which was discovered in February. If you are a Windows or a... Read more
Food Cycler Lets You Compost Right In Your Kitchen
News March 7, 2014
We all eat a lot of food every year, and as a result, there’s a whole lot of food waste that we just throw out. Some people throw their food waste in a compost pile, but unfortunately, not everyone lives in such an area where they’re able to have... Read more
CCleaner Now Has Support For Opera Startup Items
News March 7, 2014
The hugely popular personal computer cleaning tool, CCleaner has just been updated and now has support for managing Opera start-up items and the guys over at Piriform have added file content duplicate detection too. Piriform has just released CCleaner 4.11 and CCleaner Portable 4.11, the popular free and paid-for cleaning tool for... Read more
Uroburos Malware: Russian Intelligence Suspected
News March 6, 2014
Russian government hackers have been suspected of establishing a highly sophisticated piece of malware that is designed to obtain files from digital infrastructure. The Uroburos malware is named after an ancient symbol, which depicts a dragon eating its own tail. G-Data said of the Uroburos malware that it was “one of the most advanced... Read more
Following the news that Apple’s ‘iOS in the car’ is set to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, has revealed that Google’s in-car solution will be called ‘Projected Mode’ and that it will seamlessly integrate Android devices in the car’s dashboard. Daimler... Read more
Check Out This Underwater Exosuit Worthy Of Iron Man
News March 6, 2014
Underwater exploration has come a long way over the years. Thanks to scuba divers, submarines, and various pieces of ultra-expensive underwater equipment, our eyes have seen a glimpse of a world we otherwise would probably have never seen. But underwater exploration, as we know it, is about to get... Read more
The latest images leaked by @Evleaks reveals that Samsung will likely be sticking with the design trait that can already be seen on the NotePRO and TabPRO Android tablets; faux leather. Love it or hate it, the look has certainly become a firm fixture for the company, which also... Read more
Skype Outlook Integration Goes Live Globally
News March 6, 2014
Microsoft Webmail users can finally use Skype on Outlook.com as the feature is fully rolled out globally to all users, after a year of preview testing. A senior product-marketing manager for Skype, Karen Tong, stated in a 4 February blog post that Skype for Outlook.com was live worldwide, following a staggered... Read more
Microsoft is busy at work with making its personal digital assistant, Cortana, competitive; and recently, they gave us a sneak preview its capabilities. Thanks to The Verge, we now have a bit more information about Cortana. As we mentioned before, Halo fans will probably be disappointed to see a... Read more
This Wearable Device Sits Discreetly On Your Ear
News March 5, 2014
Kazuhiro Taniguchi from the Hiroshima City University has developed a new wearable technology device but it is rather more inconspicuous than Google Glass, being worn on your ear rather than directly on your face. The prototype device, which Taniguchi has named Ear Switch, has an interface that uses infrared... Read more
Until recently, almost the only thing fighter jets and commercial aircraft had in common were the ability to fly through the air. Surely this isn’t a big revelation – one aircraft is designed for air combat, the other is obviously designed for air travel. Unfortunately, though, in the world... Read more
FastStone Image Viewer is an easy-to-use tool for editing, converting and viewing images. Packed full of features, it supports all major graphic formats and also popular digital camera RAW formats. The latest version, FastStone Image Viewer 5.0, sees an added option to the Slide Show tool, called ‘Crop to... Read more
Is Microsoft Making A Free Version Of Windows 8.1?
News March 4, 2014
The word is that Microsoft is “experimenting” with a “new” version of Windows 8.1; new because it is supposed to be free. Obviously, if this is true, and Microsoft actually comes out with a free version of Windows 8.1, the chances are that the adoption rate of the operating... Read more
Use These Lightsaber Tongs To Grill Your Food To A Crisp
News March 4, 2014
I love to grill food. Steaks, chicken, potatoes, vegetables – it doesn’t matter what it is – food just seems to taste so much better after it’s grilled. Grilling is an art, there’s no doubt about it, but for such a precise art form, there are only a handful... Read more
Time is now up for Facebook Messenger for Windows following Facebook’s announcement that would be shutting down the app on 3rd March 2014. “We’re sorry, but we can no longer support Facebook Messenger for Windows, and it will stop working on March 3, 2014,” the message states. “We really... Read more
This Tiny Chip Will Help Doctors Unclog Your Arteries
News March 3, 2014
In a day and age where more people are killed by heart disease than most anything else, it would make sense that doctors and researchers would spend a majority of their time trying to figure out how to change that statistic. And, in a day and age like today,... Read more
Ever the innovators, Google have recently announced version 2.0 of their very popular communication app, Hangouts, for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The new look is fresh and it feels more intuitive. There are also some big new features. Google Hangouts version 2.0 is the best yet. The app’s... Read more