December 2014

Seagate's new 8 Terabyte Archive HDD hard drive will launch in January 2015.

Storage is one of the few things where regular platter-based drives beat Solid State Drives in. Not only do these hard drives offer storage capacities at the higher end that SSDs don't offer yet, they are also much cheaper when you compare the price per Gigabyte or price per Terabyte.

Whenever you receive a message on Facebook and read it, a notification appears in the sender's chat box that you have seen the message. It states "seen" followed by the time that the message was displayed to you on the Facebook website or Facebook application.

While that may be useful at times, some users may prefer to block seen notifications on Facebook for messages. Maybe they don't want to feel pressure to answer right away, don't have time to answer or have other reasons for not wanting the sender of the message to know that they read it already.

You have many options to convert video files to different formats; from one-click options over command line tools to advanced tools that give you full control over every bit of the conversion process.

THandBrake is a frontend for the popular HandBrake video transcoder which means that you can use profiles created in the latter.

So-called overlay popups are a form of advertising on the Internet that many users find highly annoying. These ads pop up on the same site you are on on top of the page's content unlike regular popups, which are launched in a separate window in front or back of the browser window.

Not only are those ads displayed on top of content, it is often also the case that the rest of the page is dimmed to put the full focus on them.

Overlay ads on legitimate sites display a close option, usually an x icon that you can click on to close it to access the underlying content.

Big news today for anyone who loves animated gifs and YouTube videos. Google is testing the creation of gif files on YouTube currently on select channels.

Instead of having to rely on add-ons or third-party software to create those gifs, it may soon be possible to create gifs using any video hosted by YouTube directly.

One of the channels where this is currently tested is the PBS Idea Channel.

Google introduced a new Guest Mode for its Chromecast device in the most recent Android Chromecast app. It allows anyone to cast contents without having to connect to your wireless network to do so. Here is how it works.

Whenever you set up a Chromecast device using the Android application, you need to specify a wireless network and its password that you want the Chromecast device to use.

That's true for the initial setup, but also for any other device, be it phone, tablet or computer, that you want to use to cast to the device.

Windows 10 is currently available as a preview designed to give tech enthusiasts, developers and businesses a chance to work with the operating system and give Microsoft feedback about it.

If you have had time to play around with the system, you know that Microsoft made several changes to it which distinguish it from its predecessor Windows 8.

If you need to copy files between two servers, you have a couple of options on how to do so. Many users may download the files from the originating server to the local system first before they upload the contents to the new server.

It is not the fastest option but since most file transfer applications don't support server to server transfers, it is one that is often used.

Whenever you want to use a text input field on the Internet you have to click in the field before you can start to write. While that may not be a huge issue for some users, for instance if text fields are only used sporadically, it may be a nuisance for others.

Users who leave comments on websites regularly or use forms on other sites often for instance, or users who use a touchpad on a laptop to navigate on the Internet.

If you have installed the updates that Microsoft released on this patch day you may have noticed issues with your machine afterwards.

Users on Windows 7 started to notice that Windows Defender would not start up anymore for example, and that the Diagnostic Tool of the operating system was not working correctly as well.