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Beta version of Avast 8 has been released for public and officially available for download from Avast forums. We’ve reviewed Avast 8 beta last month, that’s closed beta, this one is public. As we’ve reported in the past this version
Avast 8 comes out of beta and first release candidate has been released. Till now three betas have been released and beta 3 has fixed Windows Security Center not recognizing issue and other bugs. Avast confirms this Release Candidate 1
Surprise!, Avast has integrated Adblock Plus functionality into Ad Blocker and offered it as optional feature with their version 8’s second beta, who’d have thought of this. Adblock Plus is popular ad blocking add-on available for Opera, Firefox and Chrome
Security vendor Bitdefender has released free Rootkit Remover tool which detects and removes known rootkits by using Bitdefender’s award winning malware removal technology. Unlike to other Rootkit Removal tools Bitdefender’s Rootkit Remover tool can be launched directly from Windows without
Bitly URL shortening service has introduced “link insights” feature for its registered users which shows life of links saved on its service. If you’ve saved a link on your Bitly account the service then shows insights for that link with
Mozilla has decided from Firefox 22 onwards that browser will not allow third-party cookies to be installed on users computer if they’ve not visited that site. If you don’t want to allow third-party cookies in browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox
If you’re on a slower connection you can make the sites you visit in Firefox to load faster by disabling “Load images automatically”option under “Content” tab of Options window. But what if you always want the browser to load images
3.28 version for CCleaner has been released by Piriform for Windows which improves Windows 8 support and cleaning for other programs also. This is not the news, Piriform said in their blog that 3.28 is last release for version 3
Chrome app launcher that available on Chromebooks till now which shows all apps installed and lets you access them from one place outside the browser is now available on Chrome dev. channel for Windows. Google wants you to test this
Have you accidentally closed a tab in Chrome? and couldn’t find it in history page, if you don’t want this to happen again for you then you should install Recycle Bin extension for Chrome browser. This extension remembers closed tabs
After installing Firefox browser on your computer if you add or enable “Bookmarks Toolbar” from Firefox button>options, then you can see two default smart bookmarks folders displaying on Bookmarks toolbar they’re: “Most visited” and “Getting Started”. If you’ve unintentionally deleted
Soon Dropbox to allow its users to view all documents like Microsoft Office files, PDF files, text files and code snippets directly in the browser without needing to download them to computer. Dropbox calling this feature as “file previews”. Dropbox