November 2014

Registry Cleaners don't have the best reputation thanks to scareware products and advertisement that goes along with it.

The majority of programs promise that they improve performance, resolve errors and other issues, and improve the system's stability and while there may be edge cases were users may see a positive effect after cleaning the Registry, it usually does not have an effect on a running system.

E10s, Electrolysis or multi-process Firefox has been in development for a long time but has been prioritized only recently by Mozilla (again) after not being in focus for some time.

Firefox users on the Nightly development channel have two options to try out the new multi-process mode in the browser. Either create a new e10s window by tapping on the Alt-key and selecting File > New e10s window, or by enabling it completely in the browser by toggling a preference under about:config.

If you manipulate pdf documents in one way or the other regularly, then you may have come across PDF Stumbler before as it ships with a collection of tools for just that.

I reviewed the program back in 2013 and found it to be a great program and the majority of commenters on the original review seem to agree with me on this.

If you want to convert media files on a Windows PC you will usually have to use third-party software for that as the operating system does not really support a lot of video formats by default.

There are however plenty of reasons why you may want to convert video files. From reducing file sizes to playing them on other devices such as mobile phones or DVD players.

If you are using Google's online storage solution Google Drive to host or synchronize files across devices using online servers, then you may have noticed that it is not that easy to run those files locally.

While you can do so if you sync them to the device at all times, there is no other option than to download the files first to load them into the program of choice afterwards.

This is the second part of a mini series about privacy on the Internet. Check out the first part about IP addresses here.

Whenever you connect to a website using a web browser, mobile application or program that supports Internet connections, information are automatically made available to those sites.

We have talked about the IP address before and while it is one of the most important ones from a privacy point of view, it does not end there.

When it comes to sending messages to other recipients, chat applications that allow you to do so have been around for ages.

Recently things have moved to mobile though and that's were most communication takes places nowadays.

Mobile users pick apps out of hundreds of even thousands of available ones, and while many select most popular apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Chat or Google Hangouts, others may select apps that promise better security or privacy.

Firefox's new Developer Edition, a version of the popular web browser designed specifically for web developers, will see an official release on November 10, 2014.

The main idea behind the new version of Firefox is to provide the development community with a browser that comes packed with additional web development tools that other versions of Firefox don't ship with by default.

I reviewed Nimi Places two days ago and found it to be a great program to bring order to the desktop. One of ComTeks' readers mentioned Tago Fences in the comments as an alternative that is closer to Fences than Nimi Places, and since I'm always interested in new programs, off I went to take it for a test ride.

Browsing the Internet is very similar to driving around with a car privacy wise. People see the license plate of the car which some can use to look up information about the owner of the car.

The IP address of a device works in a similar fashion, albeit not that much in the open.

Whenever programs such as web browsers connect to websites, one or multiple server connections are established by it in the background.