July 2014

Foursquare is a popular web service that provides you with information about places of interest in your vicinity and social features that help you keep in touch wit

Traditional ways of tracking users have come under fire in recent years. Cookies and other small snippets of data that get saved on user systems may not be available forever to many companies.

That's why many have invested resources in finding other means to track users on the Internet. Fingerprinting is popular but not that reliable due to several factors.

Gmail users can access their account on the official website or by using first-party or third-party apps and services instead. A first party app is for instance Google's official Gmail app for Android, while Thunderbird and the mail client app of Windows 8 are third-party apps.

Google announced back in April 2014 that it would improve the sign-in security of its services and affect any application sending usernames and passwords to the company.

Whenever you build or buy a new PC, you may want to transfer data from the old to the new. Maybe you want to move documents or media to the new PC before you move the old one to the attic, or a program that you want to run on the new PC as well.

While there are many ways to achieve that goal, especially when it comes to files, they vary highly in terms of how easy it is to transfer the data.

Mozilla will install a hotfix on Firefox 10 to 28 Stable versions on Windows that have automatic updates enabled to get those installations to the latest release version of the web browser.

Most Firefox installations are updated automatically thanks to the built-in update functionality of the web browser. Stable and beta versions of Firefox check every 12 hours for updates while Nightly channel versions every two hours.

Whenever you open a video page on the video hosting site YouTube, it starts to play from the beginning. While that is not an issue if you never opened the video before, it is one if you want to resume a video that you played before.

Update: YouTube seems to have its own resume feature, but it only is available under certain conditions. You need to be signed in, the video you are playing needs to be at least 20 minutes, and you need to have watched at least one minute of it.

Sometimes when you want to delete, move or rename a folder or file Windows refuses to do so. You may receive a message that the action can't be completed because the folder or file is open in another program, and options to try again or to cancel the operation.

Trying again won't usually make any difference and while you can go hunting for the program that keeps the file or folder locked, it may not be that easy to do so manually.

Web browsers such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox use Google Safe Browsing to protect users before potentially malicious websites are loaded.

This works by checking sites against Safe Browsing's database to find out whether malware was hosted or distributed on the website in a 90 day period.

When you visit a flagged site in a browser supporting Safe Browsing, a warning page is displayed to you instead of the website itself.

Cisco announced back in October 2013 that it would release an open source H.264 codec in the near future that would be made available to open source projects so that these projects could integrate the codec into their applications without having to worry about licensing fees or integrating proprietary code.

Github was selected to host the OpenH264 repository and progress has been made ever since the announcement was made.

If you are the type of person who enables silent mode, either vibration or complete silence, on your phone usually when you get out or to specific places and locations such as work, the cinema or a crowded restaurant, you may want to use automation instead to avoid situations where you forget to silence your phone.

While some smartphone owners do not seem to have issues with it, some even seem to embrace loud phone conversations or music that plays so loud that everyone around hears it as well, it may be an unpleasant experience for others.