We’ve heard plenty about the oft-rumored Windows 8.1. Most recently, we reported on the rumor that the Start Menu might finally be making a comeback. But it looks like Microsoft won’t just be updating its flagship OS t...
In today’s computerized, networked world, it is very important that we protect our private and sensitive data. One way to protect your data is to use steganography; another way is to use encryption. We have already covered t...
The internet is an extremely dangerous place, even for adults. At any given moment, we can have our sensitive information stolen, run into a phishing scam, catch a virus and come across the occasional site that advocates pornogra...
Toshiba’s recently announced Kirabook might be the first premium Windows 8 notebook to truly challenge Apple’s amazing but pricey Retina Macbook Pro lineup. In some ways, it might even surpass it. Toshiba is taking a n...
According to the most recent Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, an average of 24 percent of computers worldwide are vulnerable to viruses and cyber attacks. The reason? Simple — the lack of up-to-date antivirus s...
Uploading images to Facebook is pretty easy, if you’re not uploading them in large quantities. Downloading images from Facebook and saving them on your computer can be a colossal pain, especially since you have to download them on...
Ever want to print something and it doesn’t print, so you hit the print button multiple times? Or maybe you have a bunch of old print jobs sitting in your printer spooler due to a broken printer and don’t want to print...
Do you work with a lot of images or photos on a regular basis? Then you probably know how hard it is to organize and keep track of them all. Kestrel GX is a photo organizer program for Windows that claims to make the task easy. Le...
A few years back the only viable free anti-virus programs were Avira, Avast, and AVG. However, thanks to the pioneering efforts of those three, other anti-virus companies have felt the pressure to release free anti-viruses and man...
One of the best things about Chromium open source project is that it can be modified and used to create different browsers. Take RockMelt, for example, a social browser that uses Chromium technology. (Unfortunately, RockMelt has b...
Do you have a bunch of PDFs with pages in the wrong orientation and you would like to permanently rotate them? PDF Rotator claims to be able to allow you to rotate PDF pages. Let’s see if it is worth your time. What is it an...
There is no shortage of Windows 8 hate, especially not from OEMs (computer manufacturers) who build Windows PCs. In fact, the hate may be deeper than some may realize. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDNet says some OEMs have personally...
Earlier this week we reported about the possibility of Microsoft adding a native boot-straight-to-desktop feature in Windows Blue, the next version of Windows expected to debut later this year as Windows 8.1. Now a new rumor is su...
There is a ton of Instagram-like apps for mobile devices, but PC users are left in the dark. Sure, there’s always Photoshop, Gimp and a plethora of other photo editing apps but what if you just want to apply some hipster filters?...
You know that saying, stranger things have happened? Yeah, well it applies to this next story particularly well. Bogus coupons are a pretty common thing. Every so often a coupon will emerge, people will go crazy, and some folks wi...
