Windows, Security & Privacy, Open Source and more
Windscribe is a popular VPN solution thanks to its free version, privacy features, and interesting build a plan feature. Windscribe users may install the official extension to integrate the VPN better into Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, and get several privacy features on top. The extension adds features such as ad blocking, webRTC blocking,…
Google Photos and iCloud Photos are two cloud-based tools to view, organize, and share photos and videos on the web. They are the default applications for this type of service on Android and iOS, which gives them a dominating grip on the market. While convenient to use, not all Internet users may want to allow…
Hot of the heels of the Firefox 140.0 Stable update, released earlier this week, is the first point update for the web browser. It addresses two non-security issues in the browser, one of them a crash at browser start. The main issue fixed in the update is a startup crash that Mozilla says affected some…
Microsoft published several performance claims that it says demonstrate how much better its Windows 11 operating system is in this regard when compared to its predecessor Windows 10. Here are the claims that Microsoft is making: Impressive stats. If you dig deeper, you may notice that Microsoft skewed the results significantly by using Windows 10…
Split View is quite the handy option. Supported by many browsers, such as Vivaldi or Brave, for some time, it allows you to display two websites next to each other in a single tab in the browser. Quite handy for comparison, playing a game or watching a YouTube video, while doing something else. It took…
The future looks quite grim for Mozilla and its Firefox web browser. The average monthly user count continues to drop while the browser of its ex-CEO is reporting new heights regularly. Then there is the looming death of Google and its impact on Mozilla’s finances to consider. Mozilla’s reaction came as a surprise. It started…
PicPick is an excellent screen capture program for Windows. It is free for personal use and you can support the developers by subscribing or buying a lifetime license. The personal version has a few limitations, mainly that you can’t use it commercially, that it does not support automatic updates, and that it may display ads…
Watching videos on YouTube is the favorite pastime of many Internet users. Those without YouTube Premium have to sit through ads before they get to see the video that they clicked on. The main way around this is to use an ad blocker. Good ones block video ads on YouTube so that the actual video…
Reports about problems to run Google Chrome on Windows started to emerge in early June 2025 on the official Chrome forum. Users claimed that they could not run the Google browser anymore on their Windows devices. Chrome would not start or close itself immediately after start; attempts to fix the issue, e.g., by uninstalling and…
As you may know, I prefer to buy my PC games on Gog. While I do not buy that many anymore, due to a lack of time mostly, I sometimes have the desire to replay a classic game or try a new independent game that I heard about. Gog holds sales year round, but the…