October 2015

LastPass, the company behind the popular cloud-based password manager LastPass, just announced that it has been acquired by LogMeIn, a company known for products such as Hamachi, Cubby or its line of remote support applications.

According to the announcement, the LastPass team continues to work on its product including the free version which will remain available for the time being.

If you are running Windows 7 or 8 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 10, you are in constant battle with updates that Microsoft is pushing out to those systems that are often labeled compatibility updates but appear to be designed mainly for getting users to upgrade their systems to Windows 10 or adding snooping capabilities introduced in Windows 10 to previous versions of Windows.

Batter Limiter is a free program for the Windows operating system that you can utilize to set a battery charge threshold. The software notifies you when the threshold is reached so that you can unplug the charger and prevent charging the battery when it is already at that threshold.

Batteries used in smartphones, laptops, tablets and other mobile devices lose capacity over time. That's a big problem if the battery is not replaceable and still an issue if you can replace the battery on your own.

Mozilla just announced an updated roadmap for the removal of NPAPI plugin support in Firefox and Firefox ESR. According to information posted by Benjamin Smedberg on the official Mozilla blog, plans are underway to remove NPAPI support by the end of 2016.

There is one exception to the rule and that is Adobe Flash. While support for all other NPAPI plugins is being removed in Firefox at the end of 2016, support for Adobe Flash remains available after that date.

While YouTube always had its fair share of movies that you could watch on site if you knew how to find them, the selection of movies from official sources has increased significantly in recent years.

The Paramount Vault on YouTube brings you a selection of classic Paramount movies and clips that you can watch in full length on the site.

I have been running Chrome Canary as a browser on my Windows system for a long time as it provides me with a glimpse of things to come.

While I don't use the browser for anything important due to its early stage in development, I never really ran into huge issues until now when using it despite that.

That changed yesterday when Chrome Canary suddenly started to display Aw, Snap!, Something went wrong while displaying this webpage on all pages open in the browser.

URL Gather is a free program for Windows that has been designed to provide better means to manage bookmarks on the system.

It is compatible with all recent versions of Windows. I had to run it with elevated rights on a 64-bit Windows 10 system though as it would throw error messages otherwise.

Undo Close Tab Replacement is a free browser add-on for Firefox that provides you with better means to restore recently closed tabs in the web browser.

Firefox's default functionality when it comes to restoring closed tabs is not as elegant as it could be. You may know that you can restore the last closed tabs using the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-T, by right-clicking on any open tab and selecting "Undo Close Tab" from the context menu, or by using the History > Recently Closed Tabs menu.

AdvancedRun is a free portable program for Windows that allows you to configure different startup settings such as window position and size, the user account a program is started with or command line arguments.

Windows allows you to modify how programs start using the properties window. There you may define compatibility settings, arguments or the window state to create a custom launch experience for that program.

Google launched a new experimental feature in Chrome Dev for Android recently that enables you to save pages to the device to access them at a later point in time without Internet connection requirement.

You may use it to create a personal stash of pages that are accessible while offline which can be mighty useful in situations where you need access to pages and know that Internet reception is not the best or not available at all.