March 2017

Microsoft began to roll out its new Unified Update Platform last year, first on mobile and then for Windows 10 Insider Builds as well.

One of the advantages of the platform was the use of differential update packages. This meant, all in all, that update packages would be a lot smaller going forward.

Color blindness affects a large percentage of the population. Studies have shown that up to 8% of males and 0.5% of females of Northern European heritage are affected by red-green color blindness for instance. The ability to distinguish between colors gets worse with age as well.

As a webmaster, you may want to make sure that your site is accessible to visitors with color blindness, or difficulties distinguishing certain color patterns.

Security researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute found severe security issues in nine password managers for Android that they analyzed as part of their research.

Password managers are a popular option when it comes to storing authentication information. All promise secure storage either locally or remotely, and some may add other features to the mix such as password generation, automatic sign ins, or the saving of important data such as Credit Card numbers or Pins.

Malwarebytes released a component update for Malwarebytes 3.0.6 that updates the Component Package to version 1.0.75 fixing several long-standing issues along the way.

The new update, updates the previously release preview of the component package of the software. All users, regardless of whether they have installed the preview update or not, should receive the component package update to version 1.0.75 through the software's automatic updating functionality.

Evie Launcher is a free launcher application for Android that is fast, and equipped with powerful search and notification options.

Launcher applications for Android are designed to improve the user experience in several ways. They help you find and launch apps or system features fast, but may offer additional features on top of that which may help you get more productive, or do things faster.

They may support running Internet searches for instance, look up contacts, display notifications to you, or provide a history of past actions.

Microsoft just announced a major change in regards to how updates are delivered once the Windows 10 Creators Update is installed on a machine.

The update to Windows Update prompts users, giving them options to schedule the update for a specific date and time, or to postpone the update for three days straight.

Onionshare is a free open source program for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that enables you to transfer files security using Tor.

File sharing has not changed all that much in the past ten or so years. You can send files to other users in various ways: using email, (s)ftp, file sharing services, or online storage services. There are a couple of other options such as sharing files using USB storage devices and face to face exchanges.

Map Puzzle is a free portable program for Windows to download maps from Google, Bing and several other public mapping services.

While you can open several public mapping services at all times if the device you are using is connected to the Internet, you sometimes may want map data to be available offline.

SysGauge is a free system and performance monitor for all recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that offers an impressive set of features.

The program is developed by Flexsense, a company known for high quality products such as the free hard drive management tool DiskBoss, the file change monitor DiskPulse, or the duplicate file finder DupScout.

BackTrack Tab History is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that copies history from tabs when you open links in new tabs.

All modern web browsers support tab-specific histories. What is meant by that is that they record a certain number of sites that were opened in a tab in the past.

This provides users with options to go back to a previously opened site using the back button, and also navigate ahead again using the forward button.