Mozilla Adds Choices With Click-To-Play For All Plugins After March 31st

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Mozilla is carrying forward its intent to enable ‘Click to Play’ by default for all plugins. Last year in January, Mozilla said choosing plugins to play manually would improve browser performance and stability. Plugins cause memory and security issues; poorly designed ones often crash browsers. Users can minimize these faults if they have the option to load only the plugins they want. Check on this article from MakeUseOf.com

Sony VAIO Tap 21.5″ Desktop with Intel 1.6GHz Core i5 CPU

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Microsoft Store has this Sony VAIO Tap 21.5″ Desktop on sale for $899 after instant savings. Check the system specs from Microsoft.com

Windows for free? Microsoft toys with service-stuffed ‘Windows 8.1 with Bing’

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Microsoft is already rallying Windows for a price war with Google, and now it may be gearing up to call in some fresh troops to help combat the looming threat of Chromebooks and Android, and—perhaps more importantly—transition users of past versions of Windows over to the Live Tile-clad Windows 8. Check on this article from PCWorld.com

Improve the look of your slideshows

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Windows’ native file manager, called File Explorer in Windows 8 and Windows Explorer in previous versions, has a built-in slideshow. Open a folder filled with photos, and you’ll find a Slide show button on the toolbar (Microsoft prefers the two-word spelling—slide show; I don’t). When you select that option, then right-click the resulting full-screen slideshow, you’ll find options to control the order and speed of your show. But you won’t find options for fades, dissolves, wipes, or other transition effects.

For that you’ll have to download additional software. Check out this article from  PCWorld.com

Windows 8.1 update due in spring with concessions to mouse and keyboard users

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BARCELONA—At a Sunday press event prior to Mobile World Congress, Microsoft vice president Joe Belfiore led with bright news about Windows 8: Microsoft has sold 200 million licenses (more than all of OS X’s user base, he noted); users have downloaded 4 million apps from the Windows Store; and 40 percent of Windows 8 machines are touch-enabled. Check on this article from PCWorld.com

Toshiba Satellite 15.6″ Touch-Screen Laptop

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As one of its daily deals, Best Buy is offering this Toshiba Satellite 15.6″ Touch-Screen Laptop on sale for $379.99 after instant savings. Shipping is free and a one-year warranty applies. Check the product specs fromBestBuy.com

How to make the Windows desktop look good on high-DPI displays

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One of the most long-overdue trends in PC is the rise of high-pixel-density displays. For ages, computer monitors have gotten bigger and bigger, with only a minor increase in resolution to go along with it, meaning that we’ve been paying more to see a blurrier, more pixelated desktop. Check this article from PCWorld.com