February 2015

YouTube is without doubt the most popular video hosting website on today's Internet and it is unlikely that this is going to change anytime soon even if heavyweights such as Yahoo are entering the niche with their own solutions or attempt to push existing ones.

One of the things that I like to use YouTube for is music. Both to look up classic music tracks that I'd like to listen to again as well as music discovery.

If you are a WordPress webmaster or administrator you know that there is always something to do on the backend of the site.

WordPress updates are released regularly and the same is true for plugins and themes that you may have installed on the blog.

On top of that, you may also work on the site's code, for instance its layout or what is being displayed to users when they open the site.

While you could work on the live site doing all that it is better if a local development environment is being used.

Web Storage, also known as HTML5 Storage, Local Storage or DOM Storage, offers a way for web applications and pages to store data locally in web browsers.

The data that is stored is persistent meaning that it does not expire with a session. If you browse away from the site that saved the data or close the browser, you will notice that the data is still there when you open it again or check for it locally.

The storage option is supported by all modern browsers, even mobile ones, and just like cookies, is used for good and bad.

If you want to listen to Internet radio while you are using your computer, for instance while working, playing games or hanging out on social networking sites like Facebook, you have plenty of options to do just that.

Firefox's bookmark keyword feature is something that sets it apart from many other browsers. The classic Opera browser supported the feature as well (and called it nicknames) while Internet Explorer and Google Chrome never did.

It is interesting to note however that the new browser Vivaldi supports keywords while the new Opera browser does not.

VLC Media Player for Android has been available as a beta application for some time now.  The app supports many of the features of the famous desktop version of VLC including out-of-the-box playing of many video and audio formats, support for DVD ISO images, a media library, and support for subtitles and multi-track audio.

Some features however are not ready or available at all in the beta. This includes hardware decoding on most devices for example.

Microsoft has released previews of several Office apps today for users running the most recent build of the company's upcoming Windows 10 operating system.

The first batch of universal Office applications, meaning they will run on all Windows 10 devices eventually, are now available in the beta version of Windows Store that ships with Windows 10.

Did you know that you can select and copy multiple independent bits of texts in Firefox in a single operation without using add-ons to do so?

All you need to do for that is to hold down the Ctrl-key on your keyboard before you start to select text on a web page displayed in the browser.

You will notice that you can select multiple independent texts on the page to copy them all to the clipboard or process them in another way as long as you hold down the Ctrl-key during the operation.

I don't own a Kindle but my mother does. She uses it mainly to read some books, listen to audiobooks and watch movies when she is traveling.

I'm the one who is copying audiobooks, ebooks and movies to the device and ever since I started doing so, I ran into issues with the default video player on the device.

I discovered quickly that the Kindle supports the mp4 format and that videos had to be in that format for the default media player to play them.

If you are running Windows 10 on a system either directly or in a virtual machine, you know that the operating system displays a selection menu on boot.

The menu displays options to boot into Windows 10 which you can do by selecting Windows Technical Preview, or to restore the initial state of Windows 10 by selecting Windows Rollback.

The menu is displayed for 30 seconds by default and Windows 10 will be loaded if no user interaction is recorded in that time.