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FileFriend: hide files, folders or text in JPEG images

FileFriend is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows devices that enables you to hide files, folders or text in jpeg images.

The file manipulation and encryption tool has more to offer than that, most notably options to split and join files on top of its encryption functionality.

Computer users have quite a few options at their disposal when it comes to protecting files, folders or text from unauthorized access. One of the best options is to create an encrypted container, or encrypt a hard drive partition or even the entire hard drive.

Download shows with the Netflix app for Windows

If you use the Netflix application on Windows 10, you may have received an update already that allows you to download shows to watch them offline.

If you needed another reason to use the Netflix app on Windows 10, and not a web browser, this is probably it.

Netflix enabled the option to download movies or TV shows some time ago on its mobile applications.

Windows 10 Creators Update: Unified Troubleshooting Page

The upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, out April 11th, 2017 officially and on April 5th, 2017 for early adopters, ships with a unified Troubleshooting page to fix issues.

All recent versions of the Windows operating system ship with troubleshooters. Designed to aid users in resolving issues, for instance when playing audio, connecting to the Internet, or printing, they provide basic options to resolve issues.

The best free RAM Disk programs for Windows

The following guide provides you with an overview of the best free RAM Disk programs for devices running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

A RAM Disk, also called RAM Drive or RAMDisk, works in many regards just like a hard drive. The core difference is that it is a virtual hard drive that uses RAM for storage. With it come notable differences born out of that: a RAM Disk is faster than hard drives, and the storage space that it offers is only available during the session unless the software supports the saving and loading of disk images.

Microsoft shuts down CodePlex on December 15th, 2017

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will shut down its open-source project hosting website CodePlex on December 15, 2017.

The company launched CodePlex in 2006 as a place to "share software". CodePlex enabled anyone to create and share projects. The site offered various tools for that, including a wiki software, source control based on Mercurial, Subversion, Git discussion forums, issues tracking, RSS support, and a lot more.

KB4106250: cumulative update for Windows 10 to build 15063.11

And so the patching of the Windows Creators Update before release of the final version of the Windows 10 Creators Update begins.

As I have mentioned earlier, it may be a bit premature to download and install the Creators Update right away. Users may download and install it on their machines using a leaked copy of the Update Assistant, or by downloading ISO images that are also available.

Firefox Photon: new design mockups show interface, and more

We talked about the upcoming Firefox interface design change, codename Photon, before here on Ghacks, and even revealed a mockup showing some of its interface elements last week.

Turned out later that the mockup was not by the Photon team, but by another Firefox team that used tidbits of Photon in the screenshot.

Anyway, if things go well, Photon will be part of Firefox 57. The browser is one of the most important releases for Mozilla in a long, long time.

Firefox to get option to verify all binaries to protect against compromise

Mozilla is working on a new security project for Firefox, called Binary Transparency, currently to allow all Firefox users to verify the binary files of the web browser to ensure that the files are safe and have not been tampered with.

Firefox is an open source project. This means that anyone may build the browser from source, and even change code before that.

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