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Mozilla released Firefox 122 for the desktop and for Android a few days ago. The desktop release was a light release. The highlight was a new -.deb package release for Linux users. The Firefox 122 for Android release, on the other hand, introduced several improvements that are noteworthy. The official release notes list just a…
Vividl – Video Downloader is an open source tool for Microsoft Windows devices to download videos from hundreds of websites. The app uses the popular downloader youtube-dl / yt-dlp in the background. It supports downloads of video or audio files from hundreds of sites. Most video streaming sites do not want you to download videos….
Glow is an open source program for Microsoft Windows devices that displays a wealth of information about the system it is run on. What are the features that it offers and how does it compare to popular alternatives such as Speccy? Read on to find out. Glow: a system analyzer Windows displays some information about…
Microsoft published KB5034203 on January 23, 2024. The preview update for Windows 10 is an optional update. All of its changes will be included in the February 2024 cumulative update for the operating system. Most Windows 10 users may not want to install the update, as it should be considered beta. The update addresses several…
Grayjay is a new application for Google Android devices to follow video creators on multiple platforms. Depending on how active you are when it comes to streaming media, you may know that many video creators publish content to different platforms. A basic example is a Twitch streamer who also publishes some footage on YouTube. Keeping…
Microsoft has renamed its browser for Android recently to Microsoft Edge: AI Browser. The browser is getting an infusion of Copilot and AI features. One of the latest is the Copilot Toolbar. Available in Microsoft Edge Canary only at the time of writing, it is designed to give users even quicker access to Copilot. Copilot…
Each Windows user has a user profile that holds customizations and personal files. Users may install software, download files or change the look and feel of Windows. Backing up user profiles may not be something that most users are familiar with. There are full system backups after all, which include user profile data. User backups…
Zip archives are widely used on today’s Internet and on desktop computer systems. The Zip archive format is popular and used for distributing files, programs or saving space. Archives contain one or more files. A Zip archive needs to be extracted, which is called unzipping. Windows 11 supports the Zip archive format by default. It…
Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system supports a wide range of color settings. Users may customize the color for window borders and title bars, the Start button and the taskbar. Microsoft distinguishes between color modes, which refers to dark, light and custom modes, and individual color settings of each mode. This has not changed in the…
Barely a week goes by without another AI announcement from Microsoft. It all began with the integration of ChatGPT into Bing Search. Called Bing Chat, it allows Bing users to communicate with a custom version of ChatGPT directly from the Bing website. Exactly a year later, AI has found its way into a wide range…