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Wallpapers are a great way to customize your Windows PCs or any other device. Most devices come with a default set of wallpapers, but these are usually fairly limited. On Windows, you get a few choices and may also download wallpapers from the Internet or the Microsoft Store. A third option is provided by Microsoft’s…
If you still use Google Chrome, then you may have noticed that the browser displays a Google Lens entry in the address bar. It is still rolling out I guess, but more and more installations get this. With Google Lens integration, Chrome users may run searches for anything that they see on the page. So,…
Mozilla has published a video to celebrate the 20th birthday of its Firefox web browser. The video showcases some of the existing features of the web browser and also upcoming features. As far as new features are concerned, there is none that has not been mentioned before. Still, it is a good opportunity to see…
When the makers of the archive tool Bandizip started to make changes that were disliked by part of the userbase, it was PeaZip among several other apps that users switched to. The open source archiving software is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The developers have released version 10.0 recently; reason enough to take another…
One of the best things you can do to protect your data and privacy while online is to use a good VPN. Not all VPNs offer equally good protections; some even collect and sell user data. Mullvad VPN is already offering some of the strongest privacy protections in the industry. This begins with options to…
Opera Software introduced several new features to development editions of its browsers in the past couple of months. I reviewed the new tab management and dynamic themes feature just recently. Today, Opera Software announced the launch of Opera One R2, the next stable version of its web browser. This release is feature-packed, and it includes…
Google announced a range of new security features for its messaging app and service Google Messages. Google says that the service is used by more than 1 billion users per day and that it filters out 2 billion suspicious messages each month already. Good to know: the improvements roll out over time and some are…
Windows 11 and previous versions use the mouse feature Enhance Pointer Precision by default. This guide helps you understand what the feature does and why, in some cases, it may be better turned off. What is Enhance Pointer Precision? Put simply, it is designed to improve the accuracy of slow mouse moves. Maybe you have…
If you have been using Windows computers for at least 2 decades, you may still remember the open source app WinDirStat. WinDirstat, in a nutshell, visualizes disk usage and supports cleanup operations. Programs like it, or my current favorite WizTree, are helpful in detecting large files and folders. The programs are useful especially when it…
News about BlueScreen crashes on Western Digital or Sandisk SSD systems broke shortly after Microsoft’s release of Windows 11, version 24H2. Affected user systems crashed regularly after the upgrade to the new version of Windows 11. Users started to collect information about the issue and even suggested a fix that involved making an edit to…