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The RSS news reader Feedly has been regarded by many as one of the most promising Google Reader alternatives.

Epic Pen is a free program for the Windows operating system that lets you draw directly on your computer screen.

The popular advertisement blocker Adblock Plus has been released as a preview version for Microsoft's Internet Explorer by the developers of the application.

BitTorrent Sync, the file synchronization software, was up until now only available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X as an alpha version.

It is sometimes not that easy to block a task from running. Think of tasks that you can kill when they are running, but spawn again, or tasks that you cannot kill at all using the Windows Task Manager.

Depending on how you have configured your Android phone or tablet, it may be accessible for some time after you have stopped using it.

The sandboxing software Sandboxie is one of those programs that comes in really handy if you are testing a lot of software on your PC.

The computer screen appears brighter in darker environments, for instance when you are working on your computer late at night or in a darkened room.

Microsoft released a beta version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 back in April this year promising that the final version would follow in the coming months.

The Microsoft Outlook team announced today that it made the decision to remove linked accounts on Outlook.

Feedly was built using Google Reader for its backend, but that is something that obviously must change before July 1 with Google Reader shutting down on that date.

The desktop search engine Everything has been around since 2008. It may come as a surprise that the most recent stable version of the application dates back to 2009, and that the program's developer seems to have taken a hiatus from the project afterwards until the beginning of 2013 when development continued.

You cannot always look at your phone as soon as you get a new notification. If you are driving a car, riding a bike or on your daily jog for example.

It is almost tragic that Google is violating quality guidelines on many of their web properties that it requires webmasters and third parties to uphold to.

All CD, DVD and Blu-Ray drives include firmware stored in memory that control various features of the drive.

A new version of the popular free disc burning software ImgBurn has been released today. The update increases the version of the program to 2.

If you sometimes hand over your phone to someone else, or have it lying around unlocked, then it is possible that a third party can read your messages and chat history on the phone.

Depending on where you live, you may be able to shop in different Amazon stores and have access to all or at least a large selection of items in those other shops as well.

CPU-Z is a popular software for Windows that provides you with detailed information about the computer's processor, mainboard, and other hardware related information.

A new Firefox add-on, called Dark side of the Prism, has been designed to warn Internet users who have installed it automatically when they visit websites of companies linked to the government surveillance system Prism.