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June 2015

Diagnose keyboard chatter and actuation with Switch Hitter for Windows

Computer keyboards work most of the time just as they should. You tap on a key and it is printed or interpreted by the computer the keyboard is connected to.

Sometimes though, you may recognize that key presses are not detected by the computer, or that keys are pressed multiple times, or that key combinations don't work properly.

Switch Hitter is a free program for Windows that helps you diagnose keyboard related issues. It has been created for mechanical keyboards in particular but works with any computer and keyboard combination.

Superfish closes shop, relaunches as JustVisual

Superfish, a California-based advertising company best known for the part it played in the Lenovo fiasco, posted an announcement on the official company homepage that its "business is closing".

The company, founded in 2006, developed an image identification and matching algorithm which it used in products such as WindowShopper to display advertisement to computer users.

How to grab a free genuine copy of Windows 10

The newest version of Windows, Windows 10, will be released on July 29 to a worldwide audience. It is Microsoft's attempt to win back unsatisfied users who did not like the Windows 8 operating system.

The company wants to achieve that through various means, for instance by moving away from the two interfaces of Windows 8 or by re-implementing a start menu, but also by offering the operating system as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and Windows 8 users.

Pin Windows Settings to the Windows 10 Start Menu

Microsoft reintroduces a proper start menu in its upcoming operating system Windows 10 after throwing the start menu to the trash in Windows 8 and reviving it in an unloving way in Windows 8.1.

Windows 10's start menu differs in two essential ways from the start menu in Windows 8.x. The first, and in my opinion most significant change is that Microsoft pulled the two-layered interface in Windows 10.

How to disable the Firefox 40 add-on signing requirement

Mozilla will enforce the signing of extensions in Firefox in Firefox 40. This particular version of Firefox is scheduled for release on August 11, 2015 to the stable channel.

Add-on signing refers to a new system implemented by Mozilla that requires extensions for Firefox to be signed by the organization in order to install them in stable and beta versions of the Firefox web browser.

Macrium Reflect 6 Free gets differential backups and auto verification

Macrium Reflect is not only is it in active development, it is quite powerful when compared to other free disk backup solutions for the operating system.

The developers of the program have released a new version of Macrium Reflect that introduces new features to the backup software.

The three core features that landed in Macrium Reflect 6 Free are differential images, auto verification and pre-defined backup plan templates.

Google’s in hot water after dropping binary code in Chromium for Linux

A Debian bug report indicated on Tuesday that the most recent version of the Chromium browser downloaded a "Chrome Hotword Shared Module" extension as a binary without source code.

Further investigation revealed that the extension was linked to "Ok Google", a voice search and actions service that uses the computer's microphone to run commands when the user speaks a command followed by instructions.