April 2016

Save to Google is a new browser extension for Google Chrome by Google that let's you save content that you find on the Internet to your Google account.

Facebook launched an update of its save feature yesterday, and today it is Google with a new Chrome extension that brings a similar feature -- once again -- to Google accounts.

Win10 Security Plus is a free tweak program for Microsoft's Windows operating system that has a strong focus on security modifications.

What may be confusing right from the get go is that it is not compatible only with Windows 10, but also previous versions of Windows all the way back down to Windows XP.

Win10 Security Plus is a provided as a portable version that you can run from any location you desire after extracting the downloaded archive.

Mozilla has released an update to the desktop email client Thunderbird that brings the version of the program to Thunderbird 45.0.

It is a major update of the application which has been on life support ever since Mozilla decided to hand over development to the community in 2012 and use freed up resources for other projects.

Save to Facebook is an addition to Facebook's save feature which allows users of the site to save content they encounter on the web to the "save" section of their Facebook account.

Saving has been included on Facebook for a couple of years and it comes as a surprise that the feature is used by more than 250 million users despite the fact that it is hidden from plain sight.

AVG AntiVirus Free is a longstanding security program for Microsoft Windows that protects computer systems from viruses, trojans and other malicious code.

One interesting fact about AVG is that it maintains two free antivirus solutions, namely AVG AntiVirus Free and AVG Protection Free. The core difference between both products is that Protection Free offers multi-device protection and controls using AVG Zen, an online dashboard.

ID Ransomware is a new online service that allows you to upload ransom notes or encrypted file samples to identify the ransomware used to attack you.

So-called ransomware is an ever growing and evolving threat that is attacking computer systems to either hold files hostage by encrypting them, or locks access to the computer instead.

The last couple of days have been filled with widely speculative articles suggesting that Firefox's future is Google Chrome and not the company's own Gecko or Servo engines.

Read the Register piece for instance which was very blunt in its assumptions but has been updated since then as Mozilla's been in full PR recovery mode ever since one of the organization's engineers posted about Project Tofino on a non-company blog.

The Microsoft Security Bulletins overview for April 2016 provides you with detailed information about all security and non-security patches Microsoft released in the past 30 days for client and server versions of Windows, as well as other Microsoft products such as Office.

The overview begins with an executive summary highlighting the most important information about this month's Patch Day.

It is followed by patch information for individual client and server operating systems, and other Microsoft products.

Arq 5 is a new version of the popular backup software for Macintosh and Windows systems that enables you to backup data locally or online using various methods.

The program is not free but available for a one-time fee of $49.99. You can add an extra $30 for that if you want free lifetime major version upgrades included.

While that is all that is needed if you want to use the software to back up data locally, you need to add costs if you plan to use remote services such as AWS, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Google Cloud Storage.

Software is pushed by AVG on its website in form of online installers which require an Internet connection during installation.

The method has some advantages, namely that the most recent version of the program is installed whenever the installer is executed, and that the initial download is only a couple of Megabytes in size.

While that is useful sometimes, you may sometimes need an installer that does not require an Internet connection. Those are called offline installers or full installers.