December 2015

Thunderbird usage is on the rise according to latest usage information published by Mozilla on the official blog.

The email client that celebrated its eleventh birthday on December 7 crossed the 10 million Active Daily Inquiries (ADI) mark for the first time on November 30, 2015.

Mozilla measures usage by counting the pings it receives from the product it maintains. The email client is configured to check for plugin blocklist updates regularly, and that's where the 10 million figure comes from.

Windows Live Writer was a desktop publishing software for Windows that Microsoft offered as part of Windows Live. The program supported several popular blogging platforms that authors and webmasters could add to the service to create and publish blog posts from the desktop instead of the platform's native dashboard.

The last version of Windows Live Writer was released in 2012 as part of Windows Essentials 2012. Microsoft released no further updates for the program and it seemed for a while that Microsoft retired it.

2016 will be an important year for Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser and proponent of an open Web.

The organization announced plans this month to shift Firefox OS development away from smartphones to connected devices, and to drop the email client Thunderbird from its portfolio of applications.

The search engines DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Ixquick are doing better than ever according to statistics released by DuckDuckgo and Surfboard Holding BV.

QuickTextPaste is a free portable program for the Windows operating system that enables you to paste pre-defined text quickly using hotkeys, and to run special pre-defined commands on top of that.

Automation can speed up workflows, and if you type words, phrases or other text regularly, you may have thought about automating the process.

This can be an email address that you use regularly, a signature when commenting on web forums or blogs, or a Windows command.

Welcome to this month's overview of the Microsoft December 2015 Patch Day. The guide provides you with relevant information about all security and non-security patches that Microsoft released since the November 2015 Patch day.

The executive summary lists the most important information about this month's update. It is then followed by distribution information divided into operating system and other Microsoft product distribution.

Mozilla announced a moment ago that it made the decision to stop offering "Firefox OS smartphones" to carrier channels.

Mozilla, best known for its Firefox web browser, revealed Firefox OS back in 2013. Core goals of the project were to deliver an open mobile operating system alternative to Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

Jukedeck is a new online service that provides you with the means to create music for your videos in a near effortless way as you don't need to be a composer or even knowledgeable about music at all to use the service.

Videos are everywhere and are consumed regularly in offices, schools, at home and even while on the go by a large part of the Internet's userbase.

The most recent Nightly versions of the Firefox web browser ship with the first system add-on released for the browser. Firefox Hello, the browser's realtime chat component, has been turned into a system add-on.

Mozilla announced in mid-2015 that it would turn specific features of Firefox into system add-ons in the near future. The idea behind the move was to make updates to these features independent from browser updates.

Power Toggles is a free application for Android that provides you with controls to toggle system features and settings, and to add app links and custom links to the Android homescreen or the notification area of the Android device.

Some settings and features are easily reachable on Android through the operating system's notifications area. There you may turn on or off mobile data or Wifi, or change the brightness of the display right away.