May 2015

Adblock Plus is a popular ad-blocking extension that is available for various web browsers. According to Eyeo GMBH, the company behind it, it has been downloaded more than 300 million times.

A beta version of the Adblock Browser for Android was released by the company earlier today. Beta means that you cannot just head over to Google Play to install the browser but need to join the Adblock Browser community page on Google Plus first before that option becomes available.

Dropbox users who run Firefox on Windows may want to check the plugins listing of the browser as the browser may have picked up the Dropbox Update plugin automatically after a recent update.

Mozilla, for unknown reasons, never fixed the automatic plugin installation issue in Firefox. While you can block the automatic installation of plugins manually in Firefox, there is no default indicator or permission system in place to protect users.

Firefox checks various locations on the computer automatically for plugins and integrates them automatically.

If you want to find out how old a program executable really is, you may get the information from the developer website or the program itself. If that is however not the case, you may use the tiny program PEstamp for that instead.

Whenever I update a program review here on ComTek4u, I try to find out when the last version of the program was released.

This is important as it indicates whether the program is still in active development or not, and if a new version of the program was released since the last time I reviewed it.

Some burning programs support the burning of data across multiple discs. This can be useful if you want to burn data that does not fit on a single optical disc.

While you could try and divide the data manually on multiple discs, using a program that supports this natively is usually the better option as it saves you a lot of time.

The most recent Nightly version of Firefox for Android features an improved password selection process that should make life a lot easier for users who use the built-in password manager.

I have a great password selection workflow on the desktop using KeePass, the password manager's global login shortcut and copy&paste, but the same cannot be said when I'm using my Android phone.

While I don't log in to sites often there, I sometimes have to do that and it was always a burden to get the passwords from the computer to the mobile device.

Whenever you use anonymity or privacy solutions to protect your Internet traffic from being snooped on or to bypass censorship and location-based restrictions, you need to make sure data about your actual location in the world or underlying system does not leak.

Vivaldi is a relatively new web browser based on the Blink engine which Google Chrome and Opera use as well.

A stable version of the web browser has not been released yet but is expected to become available later this year.

Vivaldi is one of the few Blink/Chromium-based browsers that introduced features that Google Chrome does not support.

In fact, it is probably the browser with the largest set of custom features when compared to Chrome.

I like Android apps a lot, and I enjoy the discovery as much as I enjoy discovering new desktop software.

I do skip the installation of Android apps that I discover fairly often though, probably 50% or even more than that.

The sole reason why I'm canceling the installation dialog after hitting the install button on Google Play is if an application requests permissions that I think it does not require for functionality.

The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project is a new function of Wolfram Language that can be used to identify what images are about.

It is usually easy to identify what is shown on a picture. While it may sometimes be difficult to identify an object or people correctly, it is usually no problem to put it in a broader context.

For instance, while you may not know the specific model of a car or the name of a flower, you will be able to tell that a car or a flower is the main focus of a picture.