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Chrome 53 Release: Squashes Bugs, Better Battery Life, Kills Flash (Some More)
InternetSoftware Reviews September 6, 2016
Chrome 53 has been released for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, but are there any real changes. The latest version of Chrome fixed over 30 security issues present in the previous release, made more inroads in Google’s fight against Flash, and takes steps to improve battery life for... Read more
New User-Friendly Features In GOM Player
Software Reviews September 2, 2016
There are a lot of different needs users may have when looking for the right media player. A lot of consumers make do just fine with whatever proprietary title comes pre-installed in their hardware, but others look for media players with more customizable features and a broader range of... Read more
The rollout of Windows 10 was interesting, to say the least. While a lot of Microsoft devotees eagerly anticipated the new operating system before its launch, the reality of it left a lot of tech users reaching for their torches and pitchforks. They felt arm-twisted into accepting automatic updates... Read more
Mozilla Testpilot: No More 404
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews August 5, 2016
Mozilla are test piloting a new project called No More 404 on its official Test Pilot website. The add on for Firefox has been designed to provide users with the option of reading deleted versions of web pages. In essence, the idea behind the project is that the new... Read more
A new anonymizing internet tool designed by MIT and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is soon to be released, and claims it has fixed Tor’s blind spots. Riffle takes the best bits of Tor and the basic principles that function in the background, and have created a new... Read more
The public has spoken, and social media giant Facebook listened…sort of. Serious social media users and comedians alike have long quipped about the need for a different set of reaction points on their fellow users’ posts. After all, clicking “Like” when someone announces they’re going through a hard time... Read more
Password Memory 6: Never Have To Remember Another Password Again!
DesktopProductivitySoftware Reviews July 11, 2016
Password Memory 6 takes the hassle out of passwords The average person has to have passwords for around 20 different email and website accounts. These days, having to keep tabs on an almost endless array of login details and account names can be a frustrating and tedious experience. The... Read more
There are tools available for just about any type of content that an individual wants to release to a broad audience, without the help of an intermediary company that will take a percentage of the profits. Authors can upload and sell their ebooks without the “say so” of a... Read more
Zemana AntiMalware: Antivirus Software That Blocks The Threat Before It Occurs
AntivirusSoftware Reviews June 21, 2016
There are a lot of options when it comes to antivirus software, but Zemana offers real-time scanning and sandboxing, without limits on removal. Viruses and malware are more rampant than ever, largely due to the fact that they work. And it’s not just the fact that black hat programmers... Read more
With the launch of Planner, Microsoft’s answer to Trello, some of Microsoft’s premium customers can already take advantage of the new tile in their Office 365 apps. Microsoft has certainly been busy. Windows 10 is a done deal, the purchase of LinkedIn is rolling along, so why not launch... Read more
BullGuard And The World’s First IoT Security Scanner
InternetPrivacy and SecuritySoftware Reviews June 15, 2016
The internet of things is awesome…and BullGuard aims to keep it that way by keeping hackers out of your connected devices with its IoT Scanner. The Internet of Things has steadily taken off, perhaps not in the overnight world-changing manner that many people hoped, but in the ongoing rollout... Read more
The developers at Mozilla have a brand-new feature to incorporate in their latest Firefox update, one that has them calling it the single biggest innovation the browser’s team has made. Dubbed “Electrolysis,” the E10S feature will essentially split Firefox into two separate processes, one for UI and one for... Read more
There’s an alarming trend happening in the world of technology, one that affects everyone from thirteen-year-old girls who use their iPhones for Snapchat to company executives running Fortune 500 companies. It’s the unfortunate finding that use of antivirus and antimalware software is on the decline, not because we no... Read more
Adobe’s latest creation, an app called Spark, allows the creation of three different kinds of web-optimized content: Posts, Pages, and Videos. As a whole, software or apps that claim to produce professional results with nothing more than a drag-and-drop skillset have not always proven themselves to be trustworthy. After... Read more
Last week I spent some time testing the new version of WhatsApp for desktop, and was pleasantly surprised by just how well it works. If you already use WhatsApp on your phone, or via the WebApp extension for either iOS or Windows, it’s pretty much more of the same.... Read more
To many of us tech users, wifi is now right up there with coffee and oxygen on the list of daily demands. Studies have already shown that free internet access is a major consideration for most travelers when choosing a hotel, and small businesses have been encouraged for years... Read more
Google’s Chrome Browser Overtakes Internet Explorer For The First Time
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews May 6, 2016
Google Chrome has officially overtaken Internet Explorer to become the world’s most used web browser. The news finally ends Microsoft’s default Windows browser’s almost two-decade long dominance as the leading internet browser. Haven’t I heard this one before? Probably. Over the last few years, quite a few tech analytics... Read more
Of course it goes without saying that if you own an android phone or tablet already then you’ve probably used UC Browser already, and quite liked it. UC Browser has been one of the go-to browsers of choice of android users for a number of years, and now it’s... Read more