Windows, Security & Privacy, Open Source and more
If you are a Steam user, you may know that Steam has an ever-growing assortment of games that are free to play. Valve does include demoes, free to play, and free games in the category, which makes it a bit difficult to find the interesting ones. Generally speaking, free means that the game is free…
So, Vivaldi has released a new stable version of its web browser, which is also called Vivaldi. Vivaldi 6.9 includes a number of new features that improve customization and options for its users, as usual. Among the batch of 6.9 features is tab renaming. To the best of my knowledge, it is a first in…
The unofficial successor of the classic XP-AntiSpy application for Windows, xd-antispy, has added support for plugins in an update. I reviewed the initial version on Ghacks last month, and liked it. Plugin support heaves the app to new levels and that is reason enough to check it out again. Plugins, as the name suggest, expand…
This year’s feature update for Windows 11 includes a performance patch for AMD processors. AMD says that this should improve the performance on systems with Ryzen 9000 processors by up to 13% when gaming. A 13% increase would be a massive achievement. Independent tests show now that there is not only light but also shadow….
If you use Windows 11, you may have noticed that you cannot open HEIC or HEVC media files by default. Windows does not ship with an app that supports the file types by default. While it is possible that the manufacturer of a PC adds support for these file types, there is a good chance…
Mozilla has used Adjust in Firefox for mobile products for years for a very specific purpose: to determine if the installation of the mobile browser originated from an advertising campaign. In other words, Adjust helped Mozilla track conversions of its advertising campaigns. It also send anonymous usage summaries occasionally, according to Mozilla. Starting in Firefox…
When it comes to managing a single Windows device, you often have to juggle between various administrative tools. Two of the most-used ones are the Control Panel and the Settings app. There are dozens more, however, from the Device Manager and Registry to the Task Manager and Group Policy Editor. Super God Mode is a…
An update for the open source cross-platform office suite LibreOffice is now available. LibreOffice 24.8 is available for all supported systems. The new version includes over a hundred improved or new features. Several are important from a security point of view. The details: Several of these options are interesting from an end-users point of view….
Almost a decade ago, Microsoft said that the Settings app of the then-new operating system Windows 10 would replace the classic Control Panel of the operating system. While Microsoft did move some options from the Control Panel to the Settings app over the years, it has, to this day, failed to migrate them all. On…
Opera Software has launched a new Opera One developer update that introduces a new feature in the browser. Called Dynamic Themes, it is adding animation to themes in the Opera browser. Opera explains: The new dynamic Themes are built using the Shaders technology and are rendered using your device’s GPU. You can configure each Theme…