March 2020
Microsoft's new Edge browser will get vertical tabs soon
All modern browsers use a horizontal bar to display open websites in tabs; that has been the status ever since browsers started to allow users to open multiple sites in a single browser window.
Vertical tabs were introduced as extensions, a prominent example the classic version of Tab Mix Plus for the Firefox web browser which was one of the most popular extensions of its kind.
Microsoft launches its Bing Coronavirus Tracker
Keeping track of Coranavirus news can be quite the time-consuming process and a burden as well considering that you need to find reliable information.
Microsoft just launched its Coronavirus tracker on Bing. COVID-19 Tracker provides statistics and information about the spread of the virus in the world.
Gog Spring Sale 2020 with more than 2500 discounted games until March 30
Gog unveiled the company's annual Spring Sale yesterday. The gaming platform holds several sales throughout the year and Spring Sale is just one of them. Customers and new users find more than 2500 discounted games on the platform which focuses heavily on classic games.
While you will find newer games on Gog as well, most games that are currently available fall into the classic category.
Sumatra 3.2 PDF reader drops Windows XP support
Sumatra PDF is my favorite PDF reader on Windows; it is lightning fast, resource friendly, and generally a well designed application. The developer of the application has released Sumatra 3.2 to the public yesterday. It is the first release of the PDF viewer since 2016 as development slowed down considerably in the past couple of years.
Gammy is an adaptive brightness application for Windows and Linux
You've probably heard of or used applications like F.lux or Lightbulb, which dim the screen to display warmer colors at night. Windows 10 has a night mode that does a similar job.
Microsoft announces retirement of the TechNet Gallery (and all its scripts)
Microsoft announced plans to retire the company's TechNet Gallery last week. TechNet Gallery was a community-powered website that allowed members to share scripts, tools, and guides for use with Microsoft products and services.
Microsoft revealed that TechNet Gallery hosts over 25,000 contributions from community members and MVPs currently, and that all of these contributions will be deleted.
Google introduces improved cookie controls in Chrome for Android
Google plans to improve cookie controls of the company's Google Chrome web browser for Android. The company launched SameSite cookie changes in Chrome 80, released in February 2020, and has recently added new options to Chrome Canary for Android including an option to block all cookies in the browser.
Personal Backup is a freeware file backup tool for Windows
Backing up your important files is something that every user should practice. You never know when disaster strikes or when you need to access backed up files for other reasons.
Elephant is an open source, cross platform note taking application
Jotting down notes is a great way to remember things to do, and can help increase your productivity. We have reviewed a handful of note taking applications here like Notes, QOwnNotes, Tomboy-ng to name a few.
Now, we'll be taking a look at the Elephant in the room. Sorry, I couldn't resist that.