November 2015

Google announced yesterday on the official Google Chrome blog that it will end support for various operating system in April 2016.

While it comes to no surprise that Windows XP is mentioned by the company, the fact that it will end support for Windows Vista at the same time is.

Google's About Me page enables you to manage Google account information that are publicly available on the Internet.

Whenever you create a social media account, and sometimes others as well, you expose some information to the public.

While there is no guarantee that anyone else stumbles upon the information ever, it means that it is theoretically possible that it happens.

Microsoft enabled full support for asm.js for Windows Insider builds 10532 and up yesterday.  Since it is generally assumed that the long-awaited TH2 update for stable versions of Windows is 10586, it will be available on those systems this month as well since Microsoft plans to roll out the TH2 update to all systems this month.

Asm.js was designed by Mozilla and implemented in the Firefox web browser in Firefox 22 on June 25, 2013.

Welcome to the Microsoft Windows patch overview for November 2015. The guide provides you with relevant information about all security and non-security patches that Microsoft released for Windows and other company products in the past 30 day period.

It begins with an executive summary that lists the most important information in condensed form, followed by distribution information.

The distribution sections list all versions of Windows and other Microsoft products that have received patches this month.

Google is rolling out a feature currently to Gmail on the web that changes how search works on the service. To sum it up, search takes into account matches found in spam on Gmail which it did not before.

Previously, search only took into account all regular folders such as inbox or user defined folders as well as the trash when you ran a search on Gmail.

Mozilla announced last Friday that it plans to remove heavyweight theme support from the Firefox web browser in a bug listing on the organization's official bug tracking website.

I don't remember when I switched from using Opera to Firefox, but it must have been around the time the browser appeared on the scene.

Firefox was released back in November 2004 and became an overnight success thanks to its speed, customization options and features it shipped with.

In fact, Firefox has been the default browser on all of my systems since that time and while I'm using other browsers as well, there are certain things and features that Firefox offers or supports that others don't.

This is the third part of the travel apps series for Android here on ComTek4u that reviews useful applications when traveling abroad. The first two parts of the series review an offline currency converter and an offline maps application.

For a while know I have experienced a frustrating issue on PayPal that prevented me from logging in to the service to make payments when other services redirected me to it.

When you select PayPal as a payment method on third-party sites, you are usually redirected to the PayPal website where you are asked to sign in to your account before you get a chance to allow the transfer of funds to the third-party service.

This happens even if you are signed in to your PayPal account, for instance in another browser tab.

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) offer an excellent option to improve online privacy. Apart from that, they help you bypass web application geo-restrictions.