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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.

Google Chrome
Snagit 11.3

Snagit 11.3 Released with Google Drive Integration and Adds Chrome and Windows 8.1 Support

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Snagit 11.3

TechSmith has released Fuse app for mobile, available for iOS and Android which lets you import photos and videos into Snagit. Snagit 11.3 for Windows has added Google Drive integration and also support for Google Chrome browser by releasing extension […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Chrome Apps Developer Tool to Offer Better Experience than Developer Mode in Google Chrome

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Chrome web store now has dedicated tool -Chrome Apps Developer Tool- for Chrome extensions and apps developers that to offer better experience than developer mode available on Chrome://extensions which lets you unpack extensions and apps and do many more things. […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Freeware

Speccy Now Displays USB Drives Information Too

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Advanced System Information tool from Piriform which shows statistics about computer hardware even for that of hard drives also including SSDs got an update- Speccy 1.24 now detects and shows attached USB drives information too. The key details shown for […]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta in Windows 8 Mode Looks different with App Launcher and Shelf at the Bottom

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

A while back, we’ve covered about Chrome 32 Beta update which lets your track down noisy tabs with the help of indicators and we also mentioned in that post Chrome on Windows 8 mode looks completely different to the current […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome
Chrome ephemeral apps

Try Chrome Apps without Installing

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome ephemeral apps

There are so many apps available for Chrome on Web Store, it would be great if Chrome allows to test some of those without installing, currently Chromium team is testing ephemeral apps experimental feature on beta, dev. and canary builds […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome
Chrome alerts for silently installed extension on Windows

Chrome on Windows Only to Allow Extensions from Chrome Web Store

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Chrome alerts for silently installed extension on Windows

Till now Chrome asks to enable or remove third-party extension installed by Windows programs silently, this will no longer be case starting from January 2014 onwards, Chrome on Windows on Stable an beta channels strictly won’t allow extensions install outside […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News, Security
Firefox

What’s new in Firefox 25.0.1?

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Firefox 25.0.1 has been released which has fixed page loading issue and comes with a fix to security issue in Firefox 25. You’re recommended to upgrade to this version by checking for update from Firefox Help menu and allow browser […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Google Chrome

Chrome can be started in Safe mode with a hotkey

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Firefox browser offers the safe mode option -which on using temporarily disables add-ons and custom settings- which lets you troubleshoot issues having the browser. Similarly Google has added concept of Safe Mode hotkey start  to latest Chrome dev build which […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Freeware

Download Winamp last version before shut down

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You can not download Winamp after Dec 20, 2013 because AOL is shutting down Winamp website and download of its media players also. Now is the time to download Winamp latest and last version that is 5.66. When you visit […]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Firefox

Click to Play Plugins Applied Firefox Beta is Available

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla has made first beta of Firefox 26 available for Windows, Mac and Linux with Click to Play Plugins which means this browser version and future versions of Firefox won’t activate all plugins by default except for latest version of […]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Internet Explorer

Update for Internet Explorer 11 disables Its Enhanced Protected Mode by default in Windows 8.1

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

An Update has been released for Internet Explorer 11 to change enhanced protected mode setting to off. Yesterday, Microsoft has released cumulative security update for Internet Explorer, of which one update 2907803 released for Windows 8.1 aimed at Internet Explorer […]

Posted in: Internet Explorer, News
Internet Explorer

Download Internet Explorer 11 Final for Windows 7

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments

Microsoft has released final version of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 and is available for download worldwide in 95 languages. While your Internet Explorer version-including IE11 Release Preview and Developer Preview- will be automatically updated to latest version, unless […]

Posted in: Internet Explorer, News
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