October 2015

ConfigFox 1.4 is the first public update of the Firefox advanced configuration manager that introduces new features and improvements across the board.

When we created Firefox's extensive list of privacy and security settings, we wanted to create a resource for all users of the web browser that would point them to preferences hidden from the main user interface.

Windows Defender is the default antivirus solution of Windows 10 just like it has been on Windows 8. The program is enabled by default and will turn itself off if another antivirus solution is installed provided that it is recognized by the operating system.

One core difference between the implementation on Windows 8 and 10 is that you cannot turn off Windows Defender completely anymore using the preferences provided in the application.

When it comes to reading PDF documents on machines running a flavor of Windows, users have plenty of options to choose from.

They can go down the traditional route and install a heavyweight application like Adobe Reader for example. While that ensures maximum compatibility and access to additional features that pure reading programs don't offer, it is heavy on the resource side of things and prone to security issues.

If you are working with two or even more screens at the same time, you may have noticed that it sometimes happens that you move the mouse cursor too far on one screen so that it ends up on another even if that was not your intention.

Since there is no delay when moving between screens, it may happen inadvertently at times. This can be especially problematic in work environments where the second screen is used to display information but requires little to no interactivity.

For a brief moment, a couple of years ago, it seemed as if established media companies understood the Internet for the first time.

Customers had been battling with companies over restrictions, availability and price of media they consumed for years.

This was especially apparent in the music streaming sector. Programs like Napster showed what the Internet was capable of but instead of embracing this new world of possibilities, companies began to fight it.

The makers of Popcorn Time have just launched a new project called Butter which the developers plan to make the backbone that is powering Popcorn Time but without the legal issues facing the former.

One of the main ideas behind Butter is to provide developers with a perfectly safe way to contribute to the infrastructure that powers Popcorn Time (and other applications utilizing Butter in the future), without being associated with Popcorn Time at the same time.

Facebook announced the launch of Search FYI yesterday, an update to the social network's traditional search tool that lets users search Facebook's complete index of posts. According to Facebook, it has indexed more than 2 trillion posts by its users which all become searchable after the update.

Everything that Facebook users have posted publicly is now available via search, and while users should be aware that public posts they make on Facebook are publicly accessible, it seems that many are still careless about what they post on the site.

Hibou is a free extension for the Google Chrome web browser that provides you with options to better remember information that you stumble upon in Chrome by utilizing a memorization technique known as spaced repetition.

I have a hard time remembering information, especially when it comes to the subject of history which I'm interested in. The main reason for this is that I don't have time to study history every day. Sometimes, I go without reading a single page for a week or even longer.

The free program dupeGuru is a cross-platform application for Windows, Mac and Linux systems to find and manage duplicate files on computer systems running a supported operating systems.

What sets it apart from other duplicate file finders is that there is not only one but three versions of the program available for download. There is dupeGuru, a general purpose duplicate file finder, and two special editions called dupeGuru Music Edition and dupeGuru Picture Edition optimized for finding duplicate media files.

Microsoft released several new Windows Insider builds since the final release of its new Windows 10 operating system a couple of months ago.

The company released patches for Windows 10 RTM as well but those were largely security or stability related and not feature updates.

Sources close to Microsoft indicate that this will change in early November when Microsoft plans to release the Windows 10 Fall Update to the release version of the operating system.