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Scan your inbox for passwords without Dashlane’s Inbox Scan

The company behind the password manager Dashlane introduced a new service earlier today that scans your email inbox for sensitive information to inform you about them

Sometimes, passwords or other sensitive information may be sent over email. This may be a regular occurrence at work for example depending on policies there but happens as well when you request a new password to be sent to an account's primary email address.

Create password protected private-browsing bookmarks in Firefox

Hush is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds password protected bookmarks to the browser's private browsing mode.

Private browsing is Firefox's name for a special mode of the browser in which most data that is usually written to the local system is not.

This includes cookies or the browsing history for example which are not available after the private browsing session is exited.

Spelr is a global Mozilla dictionary compatible spell-checker for Windows

Spell checkers are useful tools that highlight spelling mistakes automatically while you write or manually if you prefer it that way.

Most compare what you write to dictionary words and highlight all words that are not in that dictionary.

Browsers, word processors, email and messaging clients, and other tools ship with built-in spell checkers that are only active when these programs are used.

Opera 30 modifies Opera’s tab switching behavior

Most web browsers ship with keyboard shortcuts that you can use to cycle through tabs or access specific tabs that are open in the browser right away.

On Windows, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Tab is used by the majority of browsers to cycle through tabs from left to right. If you add Shift to the shortcut, tabs are cycled in reverse instead.

Opera, the new version, supported that feature as well up until now.

The most recent Developer version of the browser, version 30, ships with a modification that Opera Software calls a "real tab cycler".

Yahoo turns off Search Alerts frontend, leaves users without management options

Yahoo! Search Alerts is was a Google Alerts alternative for Yahoo users. The service provided you with tools to monitor search keywords in Yahoo's engine and receive notifications when new websites or pages were added to Yahoo Search.

Unlike Google Alerts, Yahoo! Search Alerts supported only email notifications and not RSS notification options.

NextVid Stopper for YouTube blocks autoplay on YouTube in Firefox

Google introduced autoplay recently on YouTube to the effect that new videos are started automatically on the video hosting and streaming website once the previous video ends.

It is unclear why Google introduced the feature but it could have something to do with displaying more ads to users visiting the site considering that advertisements are displayed at the beginning of videos usually on YouTube.

How to override website color schemes in Firefox

Whenever you visit a web page on the Internet one of two things can happen in regards to the color scheme used by it: the site may use its own color scheme to paint foreground and background colors as well as link and visited link colors, or Firefox's default color scheme may be used.

While that is usually not a problem, you may sometimes encounter websites that use color schemes that don't work for you.

5 Windows Programs that I cannot live without

Show me the programs that you run on your computer and I tell you who you are. While it may not be that easy all the time, it is fair to say that programs can tell you a lot about the user.

For instance, programs can reveal if a user is a webmaster or developer, privacy or security conscious, or interested in entertainment more than anything else.

The favorite programs, applications that you cannot live without and use regularly, may reveal the most about you.

The fastest public DNS providers in 2015

Public DNS services may offer advantages over the DNS servers used natively by Internet Providers. These advantages may not be limited to speed only as you may get additional functionality on top of that.

This may include filtering options, for instance to block malicious sites or phishing sites straight away, but also options to bypass network or country-wide Internet filters.

ISPs in Spain for instance blocked access to The Pirate Bay website recently on the DNS level and a workaround for that was to switch to a global DNS service to access the site again.

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