Three Important Ways Windows 8 Provides Password Protection

More than ever, passwords are a part of our lives, the key to our digital identity. On average, each of us has 25 online accounts, and that is beyond the internal systems you also need to authenticate to in your business. You should have unique, complex passwords for each system, but who can remember all of that? Windows 8 will include features that make it easier to manage your digital identity so your business's data stays safe. The Problem...

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How to Delete Your Browser History

If you share a computer with someone else, you might not want that person to be able to check your Internet browsing history. That record is easy to erase, however, in all of the major browsers. Here's how to delete your browser history in Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Erase Your Internet Explorer HistoryA useful keyboard shortcut for deleting your browsing history in Internet Explorer is Ctrl-Shift-Delete. If you press this...

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MouseTracer Free

Version: 1.01 Downloads Count: 60 License Type: Free Price: $0 Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP Requirements: Microsoft .Net 4.0 Framework, 20MB hard disk space File Size: 7.84 MB Author: Ashampoo GmbH ...

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Editorial Review of MouseTracer Free

Some people would call this software useless, but not me. Nope. Ashampoo's MouseTracer software only seems useless to people without imagination. You know the type. They drive reliable sedans and have productive day jobs. It’s hard for them to see the brilliance behind an app that tracks, in real time, the speed and distance a mouse travels. They can’t grasp the excitement of an interface that reports results, rally-race style, on a desktop...

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Google+ Rolls out New Features this Week

A quartet of new features will be rolled out this week for users of Google's social network, Google+. The service is making what is says are improvements in how Google+ handles material in news feeds, notifications, and photo views, as well as better management of business pages. One of the new features allows you to control the "volume" of your main news stream by managing the flow of posts into it from your "circles." Using a slider control...

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Chrome Edges Firefox for Second Place in Browser Battle

Google’s Chrome Web browser has leapfrogged Firefox to claim the number two slot in the browser battle, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome held 25.69 percent of the worldwide market in November 2011 compared with Firefox's 25.23 percent. Internet Explorer remains the top browser globally with a 40.63 percent share of the market. Of the top five browsers, only Chrome is seeing rapid growth -- in November 2009, it held just under...

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Chrome 15 Beats Out IE8 As World's Most Popular Browser

Google Chrome 15 is the most popular web browser in the world overtaking Internet Explorer 8, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome 15 just barely beat out its Microsoft rival for the first time between November 21 and 27 with 23.63 percent of the global browser market share compared to IE8's 23.5 percent. Mozilla's Firefox 8 trailed behind at a distant third with 12.12 percent of worldwide usage during the same time period. Chrome...

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Bring Back Internet Explorer 8

Uli Mrose updated Windows Explorer to version 9, but didn't like it. Here's how to bring back IE8.   If you don't like Internet Explorer 9, you can uninstall it, which will automatically bring back version 8. (Of course it will. Microsoft would never let you uninstall Internet Explorer entirely.) But the option to remove it isn't where you'd expect it to be--even if you're a seasoned Windows user. The process actually starts like a conventional...

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Chrome Beats Rival Browsers in 2011

Google's Chrome 15 has jumped into the number one spot, replacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as the world's most popular browser edition. Ireland-based StatCounter announced the passing of the baton last week, citing data from the last three weeks that put Chrome 15 ahead of IE8 starting the week of November 21. It was the first time that IE8 had not held the top spot since early 2010, when it replaced IE7 as the most-widely-used...

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Record Cable TV on Your PC, Easily

Is your DVR overloaded? Use your PC to record shows, and you can store as much as you want and watch it on anything--including your TV, phone, and tablet.Want to turn your Windows 7-powered PC into a killer DVR, one that requires no monthly fees and has potentially limitless storage? Three new products will pipe your high-definition cable TV signals into your PC without even requiring you to open the computer's case. When you use your PC to...

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Twitter Launches TweetDeck as Web App

An application near and dear to the heart of Twitter fanatics everywhere, TweetDeck, is now available as a Web application. Twitter announced the new version (built with HTML 5) of the popular program Friday. A nice feature of the Web edition of the software is it will sync itself with releases of the program running on other platforms so accounts, columns, layouts, and settings remain consistent whether you're using the app on a PC, Mac, iPhone,...

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F-Secure Internet Security 2011

Simple, simple, simple. That's the marching order of F-Secure Internet Security 2011 ($60 for one year, three PCs, as of 12/2/2010), an antimalware utility that focuses on safeguarding the computers of novices and especially families. You'll see this approach right from the start: Even before the software is installed you are asked to configure parental controls and set an access password, which is used to change settings. And once you...

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Google Chrome Update Addresses High-Severity Flaw

Google has released an update for Chrome 15 which addresses a high-risk vulnerability. The security issue is the result of an out-of-bounds memory write in the browser's JavaScript engine. Under normal circumstances such a vulnerability would allow remote code execution and would be considered critical. However, because Google Chrome uses a native sandbox that prevents attackers from executing malicious code, the severity of the bug was downgraded....

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G-Data Internet Security

Novices will want to run, not walk, away from G-Data Internet Security 2011 ($40 for one year, one PC; $60 for one year, three PCs, as of 12/2/2010). While it's more than capable at stopping viruses, its complexity, cluttered interface, and overly scary warnings make it less appropriate for more casual users. G-Data Internet Security's interface is instantly confusing, overpopulated with too much information and organized haphazardly. The home...

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Remove Hard-to-Kill Malware

Jane13434 asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum about removing a malicious program that has defeated AVG, SUPERAntiSpyware, and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Are you sure the problem is malware? People often jump to that conclusion when there's something wrong with their PC, and in my experience that conclusion is more often wrong than right. There's a lot of malicious code in this world, but there's even more code that's merely incompetent....

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PC Tools Internet Security

Does slow and steady win the race? PC Tools' answer to this question is a definite yes: Get it clean, no matter how long it takes. Sure enough, PC Tools Internet Security 2011's scanning performance is quite good, with 24 out of 25 real-world attacks blocked (tied for tops in this test), and an above-average 97.7 percent of zoo malware detected. In our tests, there were virtually no false positives to be found, and, best of all, PC Tools...

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How Facebook Timeline Could Influence Your Next Interview

Facebook rocked the social networking world with a number of major announcements at the F8 developer conference, but the biggest of them all is the Facebook Timeline. The Timeline is a significant departure from the traditional Facebook Profile page, and the information on it may influence your ability to get a job. The Facebook Timeline, combined with other changes unveiled at F8, may result in a little TMI (too much information) being shared....

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Facebook Timelines: How to Get Started

Facebook Timelines are now available worldwide, allowing users to tell their entire life stories through the social network. Facebook announced Timelines in September, but rolled the feature out slowly. If you're just getting Timelines now, or want to speed up the switch from your existing profile, here's what you need to know. What are Timelines?Timelines are Facebook's attempt to tell the story of your life, based on your social networking...

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Coming Soon to Firefox: Quick Background Updates

It's been predicted for some time now that Google's Chrome browser would catch up with Firefox in market share before year's end, and it looks like that may finally be happening. As of Thursday, the two browsers were more or less matched in share, with Firefox at 25.41 percent and Chrome at 25.34 percent of the global market, according to StatCounter. On several days over the past few weeks, in fact, Chrome has already pulled ahead a few times,...

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BitDefender Internet Security

Are you a casual computer user who wants a streamlined security software experience? Or are you a dyed-in-the-wool computer pro who wants access to every configuration option, security alert, and log- file entry? With BitDefender Internet Security 2011 ($50 for a one-year, three-PC license as of 12/2/2010), BitDefender's goal is to cover you either way: Unique among security applications, it offers three different user interface views,...

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Kaspersky Lab Internet Security

Known for being a power user's antimalware tool, Kaspersky has quietly evolved its Kaspersky Internet Security software ($80 for a one-year, three-PC license, as of 12/2/2010) into a somewhat kinder, gentler application more suitable for the masses. While it's eased up on the geekspeak--some earlier versions were more geared toward advanced PC users--the company has not traded down its well-known rock-solid security. Its overall performance...

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Symantec Norton Internet Security 2011

A solid solution, Symantec's venerable Norton Internet Security ($70 for a one-year, three-PC license, as of 12/27/2010) continues to incrementally update and advance both its interface and detection rates. If you haven't looked at Norton in the last few years, you're in for a surprise. No longer the bloated, slow, and crash-prone monstrosity of yore, Norton Internet Security (NIS) is now a streamlined and extremely effective anti-malware...

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