For years, Microsoft has warned Windows 10 customers that the operating system is reaching its end of support in October 2025. Did you know that this is only the cause for specific editions of Windows 10 and that there are numerous other editions that Microsoft will continue to support for years after 2025? Depending on…
Author: Martin Brinkmann
Flickr restricting free account downloads to push Pro subscriptions
The photo hosting and community site Flickr has been a popular option for free and paying users from all over the world to back up their photos to online storage, share them with others, find new photos to download, and to interact with other community members. The site changed its owner years ago and since…
Google Maps is getting a new feature that you either love or dislike
Google Maps is quite the handy helper-app in many parts of the world. While it is not excellent everywhere, many use it to find restaurants, shops, places of interest, or for directions. Soon, Google Maps is getting a new feature that is using Google’s Gemini AI to identify places in screenshots you take so that…
Windows Search will return Store apps soon
When you use the built-in search in Windows, you may get a variety of resuts, depending on how search is configured. By default, Windows Search runs the search on the Internet as well to return Internet results and local results, including cloud content results. You can turn this off, if you want local-only results. Depending…
Microsoft continues to warn customers about Windows 10’s end
Windows 10’s support is going to end in a few months. That is a message that Windows 10 users will see in an ever increasing frequency in the coming months. Note that Microsoft plans to end support for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 on the same day. Just a few days ago, Microsoft added…
Crapfixer for Windows review
Crapfixer is the latest open source Windows tweaker by serial developer Belim. He calls it “the tool Microsoft would build, if they hated bloatware as much as we do”. I have reviewed several of his tools in the past, including the tweaker TidyOS, the app remover NoBloatBox and the tweaker ThisIsNot11. The main idea behind…
Malicious Captchas are on the rise
Captchas can be quite annoying, especially if your input is not accepted or if they do not work at all. You may now add malicious captchas to the list of annoyances. Proton Mail published one example on X recently. The malicious captcha tries to convince unsuspecting users to run a command on their Windows machines….
Expect more ads in AI chats soon, courtesy of Google
How do many of the AI startups make money? Many have launched products that are freely available and without ads. There are multiple answers to the question, depending on the business’ strategy. Some want growth at all costs to sell the business later on. Others plan to introduce ads or subscriptions at a later point…
Waterfox Private Search: a first look at the privacy-friendly search engine
The developer of the Waterfox web browser announce Waterfox Private Search earlier this week. The new search engine is in open beta currently, which means that you can give it a try if you want to. Waterfox Private Search pulls data from other search engines privately, unlike Brave Search, which uses its own engine for…
How to enable Compact Mode in Firefox
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser supports two display densities by default. These determine the size of the toolbar and the elements that are displayed on it. The two options are normal and touch. Normal is the default value, unless Firefox is used on a touch display. Firefox supported a third for a very long time officially….








