January 2017

Screeny is a free for personal use screen capture program for Microsoft Windows that supports image and video captures, and an immense set of features.

You have plenty of options when it comes to taking screenshots or videos on Windows machines. From the good old Print-key-paste-in-image-editor option to screenshot tools that offer basic and advanced options.

Screeny falls without doubt into the advanced category, but that does not mean that it cannot be used to capture screenshots or videos quickly.

WorldBrain is a free browser extension for Google Chrome -- a Firefox add-on is promised -- that indexes all visited web pages and the bookmarks to add full-text search capabilities to the browser's address bar input field.

Modern browsers don't index the full web page when it comes to making suggestions to the user based on pages accessed in the past or bookmarked.

The Wayback Machine, part of the Internet Archive, is a massive web page archive that holds more than 279 billion copies currently.

This guide provides you with information on the latest Windows updates and Service Packs, including where to download them and how to install them.

Microsoft released service packs traditionally for its operating systems, but switched to the new feature upgrade system with the release of Windows 8.

Service Packs are only available for Windows 7 and earlier operating systems on the client side, while Feature upgrades for Windows 8 and newer versions of Windows including Windows 10.

2017 will be quite the interesting year for the Firefox web browser. Mozilla plans to make the switch to WebExtensions in that year, launch a new themes API that is based on that, and will introduce a new default Firefox theme on top of all that.

The first changes have been pushed to the Nightly version of the Firefox web browser already. The most visible change is the addition of two new themes that Firefox will ship with from that version on.

Wayback Machine is a new browser extension for Google Chrome that detects page error codes to suggest to access archived copies of the page.

There is a saying that the Internet won't forget a thing, and that it is difficult to impossible to remove content from the Internet completely.

While that is the case, it is no rare occurrence that Internet users encounter deleted, redirected or temporarily unavailable pages or entire sites.

Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system is still the world's most widely used OS, but that does not stop Microsoft from waving an early goodbye to the operating system.

The company informed customers on the German Microsoft press site that support for Windows 7 will end on January 14, 2020: about three years from today.

Microsoft's Nathan Mercer announced new servicing changes for Windows 7 and 8.1 in a new blog post on the Windows for IT Pros site on January 13, 2017.

Image Resizer for Windows is a free, open source program for Microsoft Windows devices to resize images straight from Explorer.

Windows users have quite the diverse selection of tools at their disposal when it comes to image manipulation.

Microsoft Paint, or the Windows Photos app, may be all that is needed in some cases to resize an image or modify it in other ways.

Security researchers found a backdoor in the popular messaging application WhatsApp recently that could allow WhatsApp to intercept and read user messages.

Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, claims that it is impossible to intercept messages on WhatsApp thanks to the services end-to-end encryption. The company states that no one, not even itself, can read what is sent when both sender and recipient use the latest version of the application.