“What happened to my tabs? And what is this hamburger-Chrome-looking button in my Firefox toolbar??” These questions have been flying around among Firefox users who woke up one day to find themselves using Firefox 29. Get some tips on this article from MakeUseOf.com
Microsoft is hosting a media event in New York tomorrow, ostensibly to unveil new models of its Surface tablet line. Most of the speculation suggests Microsoft will announce some sort of “Surface Mini,” but a larger “Surface XL”—or something to that effect—would be much more useful. Check out why on this article from PCWorld.com
Security researchers have been stressing the dramatic rise in mobile malware for a few years now—which naturally leads to more users downloading and using some sort of mobile antimalware app. But now even malware protection has become a risk: last month the popular Virus Shield Android app was outed as fraud, and this week Kaspersky announced the discovery of a pair of fake apps using its name in the Google and Windows Phone app stores. Get some useful information from this article on PCWorld.com
If you had a choice to set up an ice cream stand on the boardwalk of a hot beachfront in the middle of summer, or on the edge of an Alaskan wilderness in the middle of winter, which would you choose? Obviously, your odds of making money improve on a hot summer beach, so why not let the Google Keyword Planner tool show you where the hottest parts of the Internet are as well? Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
If you bought your iPhone direct from Apple, you’ve got an unlocked phone that’s good for use with any carrier. But what if you bought it second-hand, through a network provider or on a contract? Get some tips on this article from MakeUseOf.com
Mozilla warned this week that the popular Adblock Plus plugin could potentially suck up gigabytes of memory from PCs using its Firefox browser, thanks to bugs and the design of the plugin itself. Check this article from PCWorld.com
Firefox updates appear fairly regularly, but for the most part they’re mundane. You get a message saying it’s checking plug-in compatibility, it finds no issues (mostly), then it’s business as usual with no obvious changes. Ho-hum. Back to work. Check more of the latest update from this article on PCWorld.com