October 2015

Sideplayer is a new browser extension for Google Chrome that provides you with the option to watch YouTube videos in Chrome while you are browsing the web.

It adds a movable YouTube player overlay to Chrome so that you can watch videos regardless of where you go or which tabs you open in Chrome.

You can feed it YouTube videos in two different ways. Either click on the "play in Sideplayer" button while you are watching a video on YouTube, or paste a YouTube video url directly into the form that opens up when you click on the extension's icon in Chrome's main toolbar.

SMPlayer is one of the two media players that I'm using on my main computer all the time (the other is VLC). The main reason why I'm using two players and not one is that both have their advantages and disadvantages.

I could never get resume to work properly in VLC for instance while it works just fine in SMPlayer. The media player, as the name suggests, uses mplayer as its playback engine by default.

Ad blocking is becoming a business. While there are still many extensions out there that are not monetized at all or only slightly, for instance by accepting donations, it is clear that there is a drive towards making adblocking profitable for companies involved.

Cloud storage and security has certainly come a long way since its humble beginnings. It is appreciated by users across the globe as a way to sync data between devices, and to make data available on the Internet so that you or others can access it at anytime.

One of the main issues that I have with cloud storage is that you give up control of your data. Companies like Google, Dropbox, Amazon or Microsoft promise to keep your data safe but most appear to scan your data for a variety of reasons.

Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system has been out for two full months and usage stats indicate that the operating system's growth slowed down considerably in September 2015.

It was not surprising that Windows 10 was off to a good start usage share wise in its first month thanks to it being offered for free to nearly all Microsoft customers running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 versions of Windows.

Microsoft's Windows 10 development for absolute beginners course hast just been published by the company to its Channel 9 website.

The course is specifically designed for developers with little programming experience. While it is for absolute beginners, core concepts in C# are required according to Microsoft.

A security vulnerability found in the latest version of popular compression program WinRAR puts users of the software program at risk according to security researcher Mohammad Reza Espargham.

Attackers can exploit the vulnerability to execute code remotely on target machines requiring little user input in the process.