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The latest technology news from Techdows: browser releases, Windows updates, new software versions, and notable changes across the tools you use every day. We focus on practical, verified updates that genuinely affect how you use your PC, without the hype.

Firefox
Firefox Media Source Extensions HTML5 video player

Enable Media Source Extensions in Firefox for a better YouTube Player

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox Media Source Extensions HTML5 video player

While Google Chrome browser uses HTML5 player on the YouTube site for playing videos whenever possible, but that’s not the case with Firefox, the  default player currently supports HTMLVideoElement, H.264, WebM VP8 and good news for Firefox users using Nightly […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Panda Cloud Antivirus Free 3.0 gets Schedule Scanning and Automatic USB Vaccine features

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Panda Cloud Antivirus new version released with metro UI, new features and improvements. Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.9 is out of beta and Panda Cloud Antivirus 3.0 has been released for Windows and available for download with modern look and features. […]

Posted in: News, Security
Google Chrome
Experimental Chrome App Launcher

Experimental Chrome App Launcher in making Looks similar to Current New Tab Page

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Experimental Chrome App Launcher

Chrome App Launcher, which lets you access your favorite Apps from the desktop quickly is getting some testing by Chromium team, you can test that too by enabling Enable the experimental App Launcher flag in latest Chromium build. As recently, […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Firefox

Soon, Firefox Nightly lets You Make Audio & Video Calls to Anyone With A WebRTC-enabled browser

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla has already made its Firefox browser awesome with new design, in-content preferences and context menu with icons on top, now it has started testing WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) in Nightly, which lets you make audio & video calls to […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Fix for Ad-Aware Definition Files Update Issue

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Currently Ad-Aware users not able to update Definition files, here is the way to fix that manually until Lavasoft finds the solution for it. Navigate to the folder – C:Program FilesLavasoftAd-Aware AntivirusAntimalware Engine2.6.0.0Plugins – in your computer, select all files […]

Posted in: News, Troubleshooting
News
TechSmith Camtasia Studio 8.4

TechSmith adds Cross-Platform Screen Recording to Camtasia 8.4 & Camtasia for Mac 2.8

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
TechSmith Camtasia Studio 8.4

Camtasia, Professional screen recording and Video editor from TechSmith got an update, Camtasia 8.4 (Windows) and Camtasia for Mac 2.8 are released with cross-platform screen recording feature. The new screen recording file format, .trec -makes recording made by TechSmith product […]

Posted in: News
Google Chrome
Chrome is this the search page you were expecting notification

Google Chrome: ‘ Is this the Search page you were expecting?’

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome is this the search page you were expecting notification

Chrome beta now showing ‘disable extension’ button the for the extension on Settings page that has taken control of Search Provider or start up pages Settings. If an extension you install from Chrome Web Store changes browser settings such as […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
News
Snagit 12 with video cut feature

TechSmith Releases Snagit 12 with Video Trimming and New Capturing Style

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Snagit 12 with video cut feature

Snagit, Screen Capture software from TechSmith has got a new major version, Snagit 12 has been released for Windows and available for download with new features and improvements. Till now Snagit has offered simple video recording, now it allows to […]

Posted in: News
News
Adobe Reader XI version 11.0.07

Adobe ends support for Reader Product on Windows XP, adds for Windows 8.1 Update’s

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Adobe Reader XI version 11.0.07

Though Quarterly security update of Adobe Reader has targeted at fixing critical vulnerabilities and offering improvements, significant news is Adobe Reader 11.0.07 version no longer works in Windows XP (and Office 2003 as well), welcoming news is support for Windows […]

Posted in: News, Security
News

Kaspersky Releases Friend or Foe App for Facebook

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Security folks at Kaspersky lab has released a new smart social security app for Facebook, Friend or Foe in beta allows “users to assess just how “valuable” their friends are, and even shows what others think of them. The app […]

Posted in: News, Security
News

Microsoft Extends Windows 8.1 Update Install Deadline by another 30 days (June 10th)

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Haven’t you installed Windows 8.1 Update yet?, you’ve got another month to do so. If you’re using Windows 8.1 (not Windows 8) by this time, Windows 8.1 Update KB 2919355 might have already installed if automatic Updates were turned on, […]

Posted in: News
Freeware
Advanced SystemCare Security Reinforce

Advanced SystemCare Free 7.3 Introduces Security Reinforce feature for XP Users

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Advanced SystemCare Security Reinforce

IObit has released Advanced SystemCare with brand a new security feature intended for XP users. IObit’s system Optimizing software continues to support Windows XP permanently and they’ve added new feature Security Reinforce to the new version, that ‘reinforces the security […]

Posted in: Freeware, News, Security
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