May 2015

Google rolls out the new Photos application currently for Android and iOS currently which breaks the app away from the company's social networking service Google+ without cutting the connection completely.

Whenever you enter data in Firefox, it is stored in the local database file formhistory.sqlite provided that you have not disabled the saving of form and search data. The file is stored in the root folder of the profile used and since it is not protected, may reveal information about what you have entered in the past to anyone with access to it.

Microsoft announced plans yesterday to enforce "a more robust approach to the app certification policy for both new and existing apps to ensure customers can easily find high-value, high-quality apps when shopping in Windows Store".

The company plans to identify applications that don't follow policies, inform developers about issues with those apps, and remove apps if developers don't comply in a certain period of time.

Hola is a popular virtual private network (VPN) provider that is available for various web browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, as well as desktop and mobile operating systems.

It is free to use and if you check ratings and users on Chrome's Web Store alone, you will notice that it is used by more than 7.1 million Chrome users currently.

If you have opened the My Account management page on Google today you may have noticed that it has been redesigned completely by the company.

The easiest way to access the page is to either open it directly using the https://myaccount.google.com/?pli=1 link, or by visiting any Google property, clicking on your profile icon at the top and selecting account from there instead. If you are not signed in to your account you need to do that first before the option becomes available.

The update to GifCam 5.0 introduces several new customization options to the screen to animated gif recording software that may improve the usability of the program significantly for some users.

The original GifCam, released in 2013, was an excellent piece of software. It enabled you to record part of the screen, edit the recording and save it as an animated gif to the local system afterwards.

Web Whiteboard is an online collaboration application that brings whiteboard functionality for groups to the web.

Communication is one important cornerstone of projects. While it may work well if all team members are working in the same office building or region, it can be problematic if that is not the case.

If you work with freelancers for instance, you may need to communicate with workers living in different countries.

Norwegian company Opera Software just announced that it has released an update for its data compression application Opera Max that brings WiFi and app data blocking support to the app.

Opera Max is a virtual private network at its core that is compressing data remotely before it is transferred to the mobile device you are using.

When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be available as a free upgrade for users running Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, it probably did not imagine the confusion the statement would cause.

Rumors began to appear shortly thereafter on the Internet claiming that users would have to pay after the first twelve months to continue using the system, and that Microsoft would introduce a subscription system similar to Office 365.

Virgo is probably the lightest virtual desktop manager that exists for the Windows operating system. At 7 Kilobyte on disk and less than 1 Megabyte of RAM when it runs, it is hard to beat.

Existing windows versions do not ship with virtual desktop functionality and while that will change when Windows 10 comes along, it will take years before the operating system may take the crown as the most used version of Windows provided that it won't fail as hard as Windows 8 did.