February 2015

While Outlook.com is mostly about email, it supports chat as well. You can click on the chat icon while you are on the site to display available contacts and options to initiate an audio or video-call with them.

If you open the interface right now, you should see options to connect to your Facebook friends and Google contacts as well so that you can communicate with these contacts on Outlook.com.

The default option for those who are wondering is Microsoft's own messaging service Skype.

Depending on what you search for on the DuckDuckGo search engine, you may receive something that the site calls Instant Answers on top of the results.

The main idea behind the feature is to display results for queries that can often be answered directly in the search results so that get them immediately without having to click on links to visit websites that may display the same answer.

Some say that Firefox Hello is a milestone as it enables anyone to communicate with each other from within the browser without account requirement, plugins or paying for it.

Others dislike the feature for a variety of reasons that range from bloating the web browser to simply being not interested in communication features.

juggling around between multiple open applications is often not very comfortable on smartphones. Say a link is posted on your wall on Facebook. A click opens it in the default viewer application for links, you read the article and then go back to Facebook to continue whatever you were doing so.

Flynx promises to have the solution for this that streamlines the process. The main idea behind the free application is to collect links in the background, load and collect them there until you activate the collection and browse it without leaving the app you are using.

ActivePresenter is a free powerful screen recorder for the Windows operating system.

Firefox 36 will be released to the public on February 24th, 2015 by Mozilla.

All Firefox channels are moved up a version on the release day which means that Firefox Stable installations are moved to version 36, Beta versions to 37, Developer versions to 38 and Nightly installations to 39.

Firefox Extended Support Release builds are also updated to version 31.5 on the day.

The easiest way to find out which version (and channel) of the browser you are running is to type about:support in the browser's address bar.

Potentially unwanted software is a big issue in today's computing. It is largely a problem on Windows systems and usually refers to the bundling of unwanted programs with software that you have downloaded from the Internet.

The recent Lenovo scandal has shown that potentially unwanted software may also be added to systems by manufacturers of said devices.

Maybe it is just my impression but it seems as if busy bees are working on Vivaldi's browser as new versions of it get released in an astonishing speed considering that the team is relatively small when compared to other browsers.

The most recent build of Vivaldi's Tech Preview brings support for 64-bit Windows builds which you can download from the official company blog. The team notes that the builds are experimental and that some plugins may not work if you install and use that build.

If you had to guess the operating system with the highest number of reported vulnerabilities, which would you pick? I guess it is fairly certain that the majority would pick Windows 7 or Windows in general but that is not the case, at least not when you grab data from the 2014 NVD database.

So, the blogging platform Tumblr, which is owned by Yahoo Inc, started to add terms like torrent and to the network's filter list.

Tumblr maintained a filter list for some time to block adult related search terms from appearing in the global search results.