July 2015

Why should you upgrade a machine running a previous version of Windows to Windows 10? Or buy a computer with Windows 10? Or build one and install Windows 10 on it?

That's what Microsoft attempts to answer with a new short video entitled "10 Reasons to upgrade to Windows 10: IT'S FAMILIAR".

The first thing you may notice when you watch the video is that it is rather difficult to discover the ten reasons in the video.

It makes sense usually to buy computer or console games during sales, for instance the regular sales on Steam, instead of right away when a game gets released.

Not only is it a lot cheaper, you also avoid bugs on release, or server and infrastructure issues.

While it may make sense sometimes to buy a game on launch day, for instance if you trust the developer or if you want to play it with friends who buy it immediately on launch, it is often better to wait.

Whenever you connect to a secure website using Firefox or any other modern browser, negotiations happen in the background that determine what is being used to encrypt the connection.

RC4 is a stream cipher that is currently supported by most browsers even though it may only be used as a fallback (if other negotiations fail) or for whitelisted sites.

Manga Blitz is a free application for Android that adds Manga reading and downloading capabilities to devices running at least Android 2.3.

The program is not available on Google Play but can be downloaded either from Amazon or directly from the developer website.

The ad-powered application taps into several popular Manga repositories on the Internet by default which you can search using built-in capabilities.

It supports plugins in addition to that which you can install to extend the functionality of the program and add new resources to it.

Reports started to come in today that Google has penalized one of the world's most popular torrent indexing websites Kickass Torrents.

Penalized in this case means that the site is nowhere to be found if you search for its name or derivations thereof when you use Google or a search engine that uses Google as its source.

If you like classical music, then you may want to pay a visit to Petrucci's Music Library as it is one of the greatest free classical music resources the Internet has to offer.

The site features more than 36,000 recordings that you can play and download, has information about more than 12,000 composers and offers access to more than 321,000 music scores including first edition scans.

Vivaldi released the fourth technical preview of the browser the other day which introduced an assortment of interface customization options to the browser among other things.

It took the company less than a day to push out another snapshot of the browser. The new snapshot ships with a new customization feature that Vivaldi calls Chromeless UI.

About two months ago rumors came up that updates could become mandatory for machines running editions of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system.

Details were scarce at the time but it was clear that Microsoft intended to use different update channels based on Windows 10 editions.

Microsoft's operating system Windows 10 ships with game DVR capabilities that some Windows users can make use of to record in-game videos.

Some users? The company made the decision to restrict the feature based on the installed hardware. More precisely, based on the installed video card.

According to Microsoft, game DVR capabilities are only available if the following video cards are installed in the machine.

Idle Master is a free program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that gets you trading card drops for games that you own but don't play or have not installed on Steam.

Valve introduced trading cards a while ago on Steam. The system rewards players with cards for specific games supporting the system which they can combine to badges to level up their Steam account, trade or sell on the marketplace.

Cards can be completely ignored but there is a thriving economy that is built around cards and other digital items.