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Ebooks can be a great alternative to traditional books. They do not weight anything, which means that you can carry around hundreds if not thousands of books effortlessly. They also come with extra features, like the ability to search books. If you have bought ebooks in the past, you may know that you do not…
Browser extensions are great. They improve usability and functionality on the Internet. From blocking ads and tracking over creating screenshots to improving password management or games. All extensions come with a manifest file. This file defines rights and permissions. One of these sets the websites the extension is designed to run on. This can be…
After two months of not adding anything new to the list of deprecated features, Microsoft has added another feature to the list of features that will eventually be removed from its Windows 11 operating system. This time, it is the Location History feature that has been put on the list by Microsoft. Microsoft says that…
Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system displays the Widgets icon on the taskbar by default. It was updated recently to show weather information. If you do not use Widgets, but like the weather information, you can use a third-party alternative. Tray Weather is an open source application for Windows to display weather information in the System…
Search engines were among the first to push AI answers. These use artificial intelligence to generate answers for user queries and are often placed prominently. If you ask me, these are hit or miss. Sometimes, they provide answers that are dead on. At other times, they recommend to eat one rock per day. Reddit, which…
VPN services offer an excellent way to improve privacy while online. To be precise, good VPN services do, while bad ones either leak your data or sell it outright. Mullvad is considered to be one of the best when it comes to online privacy. The Sweden-based provider gets audited by third-parties regularly and offers several…
Most modern cars come with infotainment systems. These control a variety of functions, including the radio, calls, navigation and more. It was only a matter of time before some car manufacturers started to play with the idea of displaying ads on those screens to their customers to increase their profit margin. Stellantis, the fourth-largest manufacturer…
Even careful Windows users may accumulate a good number of software programs over the years. Some of these are used daily or weekly, while others may sit idly on the hard drive for months or years without any use. It is certainly possible to use a program just once every six months or once a…
Remember userscripts? These little scripts are a useful alternative to browser extensions. They can be used for lots of things, most often for changing something on websites, like removing elements. Brave Software announced support for scriplets in the company’s Brave Browser today. These work similarly to userscripts. Users of the browser may add scriptlets to…
Google plans to roll out an automatic picture-in-picture mode in Chrome 134. The browser will be released next month. When it does, Chrome may continue to show video content on certain sites when the user scrolls away from the video content. This feature works for the most part identical to that of Mozilla Firefox, which…