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April 2015

Greasy Scripts finds userscripts on sites you visit in Firefox

Remember Greasefire? It was an add-on for the Firefox browser that would alert you whenever userscripts were available for sites that you visited in the browser.

The extension used userscripts.org as its source, a site that is no longer available. Since it has not been updated since 2012, it is not working either anymore because of this.

File Manager Konvertor now freeware

Konvertor, a file manager for Windows with impressive support for more than 4200 different file formats is available for free now.

Windows Explorer is fine when it comes to basic file operations such as browsing directories or opening files but as soon as you want advanced or complex operations done, it becomes apparent that it is too basic for that.

Download Imgur images in bulk with Imgur Downloader

The image hosting site Imgur rose to fame when it became Reddit's preferred hosting site. The majority of popular groups on Reddit use Imgur exclusively to display images in those groups.

Popular groups such as aww, gifs or funny are immensely popular and dominate the front page on Reddit more often than not.

You know probably that you can open any Reddit group directly on Imgur to display all of its image contents right away.

How to activate YouTube’s transparent player design

Changes on YouTube are not rolled out to all users at once. Google tests them on the live site after testing them internally by enabling them for a fraction of the site's user base only to gather metrics first which it uses to measure the impact of the change on the website.

The company tests a new transparent player design on YouTube currently which changes playback and controls in two fundamental ways.

The first change is that you see the video underneath the player interface thanks to the transparent design of it.

How to block wisptis.exe from running on Windows PCs

Wisptis.exe, the Microsoft Pen and Touch input component, is a process that may be running on your system even if it is not connected to a touch screen or has no pen connected to it.

I monitor tasks on Windows regularly using basic tools like the Windows Task Manager and more advanced tools like Process Explorer.

I noticed the wisptis.exe process running on the system recently after ever system start. While it was possible to terminate it, it came back the next time.

How to verify that system drivers are digitally signed

Device drivers are important files as they allow you and the operating system to interact with hardware connected to the system.

Drivers, just like executable files, can be digitally signed to improve their verifiability.

Manufacturers can submit drivers to Microsoft to get them signed. While many do so, some don't do this for all drivers they release.

It is common for instance that beta drivers are not digitally signed.

Password Manager KeePass 2.29 ships with fully signed binaries

The KeePass 2.29 update introduces several improvements to the password manager including fully signed program binaries and support for Firefox Extended Support Releases.

Password managers are essential programs in my opinion, especially if you have to keep track of hundreds of accounts and passwords for various web services.

KeePass is a popular choice when it comes to password management. It is a local application that runs on Windows natively but can also be run on other systems using various means.

Expose for Chrome gives you quick access to public Facebook photo streams

Even if you take good care of your privacy on Facebook information about you may still leak. A friend may post a photo that you are in without asking your permission, or someone else may tag you in a photo which may become available in public searches.

That's a problem as you cannot do much about it. Even if you unfriend everyone, photos and information about you may still be posted to Facebook.

Expose is a Facebook extension for Google Chrome that puts the finger in the wound. It lets you see all tagged photos of any Facebook user that are publicly available.

Snappy Driver Installer checks, downloads and installs drivers on Windows

When I set up Windows 10 on a new PC I downloaded only the latest NVIDIA driver for the video card but did not have to install any driver apart from that as everything was working fine out of the box.

That has not always been the case and still is not if you connect hardware to a PC running Windows that is either very old or uncommon.

Snappy Driver Installer is a free program for Windows that is a complete solution when it comes to drivers on Windows.