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Opera 12.17 for Windows Fixes Heartbleed bug

April 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

The Opera desktop team has released Opera 12.17 for Windows, which has fixed the Heartbleed bug, Mac and Linux versions are not affected. Though the Presto engine used in Opera 12 is not vulnerable to the bug, but autoupdater used […]

Posted in: News, Opera
Freeware
JavaRa

JavaRa Updated to detect and remove Java 8

April 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
JavaRa

JavaRa, freeware and portable utility which lets you update or uninstall Java Runtime Environment has been updated to version 2.6. In this version, the developer has added ability for the program to detect and remove Java 8 installed in your […]

Posted in: Freeware, News
News
VaultPress Live Chat

Live Chat Support for VaultPress is Now Available

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
VaultPress Live Chat

VaultPress, site backup and security service that offers basic, Premium and lite plans has recently made available Backup Browser, this tool that lets you preview and restore individual files. Till now, you can able to reach WordPress Experts team through […]

Posted in: News
Freeware
WinPatrol 2014 update

WinPatrol Now lets you Check for Safe Software Updates and Restore deleted files

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
WinPatrol 2014 update

Developer Bill has added two new features to WinPatrol 2014, they’re: ‘Check for Safe updates’ and ‘Restore Deleted files’. After installing this version, you’ll find software updates checking button in place of ‘check for new WinPatrol version’ on Plus tab, […]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Freeware
Dropbox offered with Avast antivirus

Be watchful, Avast installs Dropbox if you don’t pay Attention

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Dropbox offered with Avast antivirus

Avast software has released Avast 2014 R3 (9.0.2016) stable version and is available for download from its site. This version has improved its tools such as Remote Assistance, Software Updater, Browser Cleanup and GrimeFighter. But, be watchful during the setup, […]

Posted in: Freeware, News, Security
Freeware
Piriform CCleaner v4.12

CCleaner 4.12 adds Opera Developer Stream Support

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Piriform CCleaner v4.12

Piriform has released the 4.12 version for its Crap Cleaning tool aka CCleaner with support for Opera Developer Stream, Opera 15 and newer saved form information cleaning. Once this  version installed, and after enabling Intelligent Cookie scan (current version auto-enables […]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Firefox
FEBE 8 options

FEBE 8.0 Beta Drops Box Support, adds Dropbox’s

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
FEBE 8 options

FEBE, (pronounced as Fee-bee) Firefox Environment Backup Extension which lets you backup Firefox extensions and themes has now eighth beta for version 8 available for testing. This beta has added support for Dropbox and removed of Box.net’s. Current stable version […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
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Google Merges Account Activity Info with the Google Dashboard

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Google Account Activity, opt-in feature for your Google Account that sends a link to a password-protected report with insights into your signed-in use of Google services on a monthly basis after Signup has been merged with the Google Dashboard. Search […]

Posted in: News
Google Chrome

Good News, IDM Extension for Chrome now available on Chrome Web Store

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Chaos over, Internet Download Manager developer team seems to have finally hosted their extension, IDM Integration Module in Chrome Web Store. So you no longer need to use developer mode to install their extension in stable and beta channels. Installing […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
News

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit’s New Architecture gives More Control to Admin Users

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Anti-Exploit from Malwarebytes which is yet in Beta has got an update,  it has been re-architected to run as a Windows service and work in multi-user environments. The new architecture doesn’t allow non-admin users from stopping protection, managing exclusions and […]

Posted in: News, Security
Freeware
Java Control Panel applet showing version as 8

Oracle Releases Java 8 with inclusion of Ask Toolbar again

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Java Control Panel applet showing version as 8

Back in September last year, developer Preview for Java 8 was released, yesterday Oracle corporation has released the final version for it and is available for download. If you’re a user,  but not a developer, then you should be installing […]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Google Chrome
No search Google for command on right click menu

‘Search Google for’ missing from the Right-Click menu in Chrome?

March 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
No search Google for command on right click menu

Google has removed Search Option from right-click menu in Chrome. ‘Search Google for’ (if you’ve set Google as default search engine) appears on the context menu of highlighted text, you can find this change in latest canary and dev. builds. […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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