February 2017

One of the VPN providers that I use on a regular basis is NordVPN. Is is popular provider that is offering an excellent service for a reasonable price if you pay annually.

While there are certainly cheaper providers out there, I found NordVPN to be one of the best choices when it comes to VPN networks.

Windows Defender Application Guard is a new security feature of the Windows 10 operating system that Microsoft revealed back in 2016.

The company revealed back then that it would integrate the feature in a future Windows Insider build before shipping it with the new feature update of Windows, the Windows 10 Creators Update.

Alternate File Move is a free program for Windows that you may use to keep files in sync between two folders that you set up on first run of the software program.

You have plenty of options if you want to keep files in sync between two folders.  You can check out our overview of the best free file synchronization programs for Windows for instance as a start.

Permadelete is a new open source program for Microsoft Windows devices that you may use to remove files securely from the PC.

The delete operation on Windows does not really do what the majority of users expects it to do. Instead of removing the contents of a file and its reference from the system, delete simply removes the reference but leaves the contents on the disk.

White Noise Baby is an application for Google Android and Apple iOS devices that provides you with soothing sounds and monitoring options.

The application looks like any other "white noise" application on first glance, but if you dig a bit deeper, you will notice that it offers features that the bulk of apps don't support.

The main idea behind the app is simple: play sounds or classical music to help your baby sleep better. While it is designed with babies in mind, nothing is keeping you from using it for yourself, or other people instead.

Getting file hashes can be quite useful. This can be used for instance to make sure that backed up files are not corrupt or modified (by generating hashes before and after the process), or to make sure that no one tampered with an important file.

Free Manga Downloader is an open source program for Microsoft's Windows operating system that enables you to download manga from supported sites.

While you can read manga online on hundreds of sites, you sometimes may want to download them for offline reading.

We reviewed several programs in the past that help you do that. MangaZ, Manga Crawler and DomDomSoft Manga Downloader are but three of the applications that you may use for that purpose.

Nvidia released a Geforce Hotfix driver recently that addresses two issues in the GeForce Game Reader 378.66 WHQL drivers released on February 14, 2017.

Google Project Zero member Mateusz Jurczyk disclosed a gdi32.dll vulnerability in the Windows operating system to Microsoft on November 16, 2016.

The report itself is quite technical and it would go too far to go into details here on the site. The following describes the turn of events however.

Vivaldi Technologies AS released the first development version of Vivaldi 1.8 on Tuesday featuring better audio management and drag & drop note taking support.

The Norwegian company released Vivaldi 1.7 last week, and has been busy since fixing bugs and adding new features to the next upcoming version of the web browser.