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What is Amazon Chime?

Amazon Chime is a new communication service by Amazon that supports video conferencing, calls, chat, and the sharing of content.

The product is available for devices running Windows and Mac OS X, and for the mobile operating systems Android and iOS, and as an online version that you can use device-independent.

Data is automatically synced regardless of device that you are using to access Amazon Chime.

How to speed up the Opera web browser

The following guide provides you with information on how to speed up the Opera web browser to improve performance and your overall experience.

The "new" Opera web browser is a Chromium-based browser that shares much of its code with Google Chrome. While I have not seen many complaints about the performance or resource use of the browser, there is always room for improvement.

Codec Tweak Tool: Troubleshoot media playback issues on Windows

Codec Tweak Tool is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows devices designed to troubleshoot and correct media playback issues on Windows.

The Windows operating system ships with support for a limited number of media types. Windows Media Player and other multimedia players on the system can play these supported media files, but not any other file.

Gmail Sender Icons for Chrome: better sender identification

Gmail Sender Icons is a simple browser extension for Google Chrome that visualizes the sender's domain and favicon of the domain on Gmail's website.

Gmail does not list any sender information besides the name when it lists emails received by connected accounts. Since names are picked by senders, they cannot be used reliably to identify the sender of an email.

How to speed up the Vivaldi web browser

The following guide lists tweaks and suggestions on how to speed up the Vivaldi web browser to reduce lag and improve the browser's performance.

Vivaldi is based on Chromium, and performance should not really be much of an issue because of this. However, the browser may feel sluggish or laggy at times, with actions like opening a new tab or switching to another tab being noticeably delayed.

Windows 10: Group Policy pack Privacy and Telemetry

The Group Policy pack Privacy and Telemetry, short gp-pack PaT, is a collection of 70 policies designed to disable sending data to Microsoft on Windows 10 devices.

Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise administrators may use the Group Policy to modify privacy settings, and block some telemetry collecting and submitting to Microsoft.

PeaUtils collection of file management tools

PeaUtils is a collection of file management tools that enables you to run more than a dozen file related tools on your system.

The open source program is created by the makers of the popular archiver Peazip, and available for Windows and Linux.

Windows users can download a portable version of PeaUtils for 32-bit or 64-bit versions of the operating system, or download the installer instead.

Maxon Cinebench: benchmark software with comparison

Maxon Cinebench is a free benchmark software for Windows and Mac devices by Maxon, a company best known for the 3D graphics package Cinema 4D.

Benchmarks can be useful in determining the performance of hardware components or a computer system.

Useful to find out how fast a component or the computer really is, in picking the right component for a job, or for comparing the performance of a component over time.

Benchmarks that don't offer comparison are mostly useful if you have different components at your disposal that you can compare against each other.