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Avira Prime is a new subscription-based service by security company Avira that can best be described as a cross-platform all-in-one service.

First, the basics: Avira Prime is available for 9.95 € per month for up to five devices, or 12.95 € per month for up to 25 devices, or yearly payments of  99.95 € / 129.95€ respectively.

Website Downloader is a relatively new service that enables you to download individual pages or entire archives of websites on the Wayback Machine site.

The Wayback Machine, part of the Internet Archive, is a very useful service. It enables you to browse website snapshots recorded by the site's crawler.

Cinnamon is another desktop environment that began as a fork of a previous environment, this time a fork of the GNOME Shell.

The developers of Linux Mint from how I understand it, didn’t like the tablet inspired GUI that GNOME went with, but they enjoyed the back end features and implementations, so they forked the code and created Cinnamon in order to keep a more traditional look and feel to the desktop environment, while still keeping up with the times and latest technologies.

However as of Cinnamon 2.0, Cinnamon has become it’s own desktop environment.

The following guide walks you through the steps of disabling share suggestions displayed in the Windows 10 Creators Update share menu.

The Windows 10 Creators Update, out officially on April 11th, 2017, features a new share menu that changes how share functionality is displayed on the screen.

A share sidebar was displayed in previous versions of Windows 10, but that changes with the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update.

FileFriend is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows devices that enables you to hide files, folders or text in jpeg images.

The file manipulation and encryption tool has more to offer than that, most notably options to split and join files on top of its encryption functionality.

Computer users have quite a few options at their disposal when it comes to protecting files, folders or text from unauthorized access. One of the best options is to create an encrypted container, or encrypt a hard drive partition or even the entire hard drive.

If you use the Netflix application on Windows 10, you may have received an update already that allows you to download shows to watch them offline.

If you needed another reason to use the Netflix app on Windows 10, and not a web browser, this is probably it.

Netflix enabled the option to download movies or TV shows some time ago on its mobile applications.

The upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, out April 11th, 2017 officially and on April 5th, 2017 for early adopters, ships with a unified Troubleshooting page to fix issues.

All recent versions of the Windows operating system ship with troubleshooters. Designed to aid users in resolving issues, for instance when playing audio, connecting to the Internet, or printing, they provide basic options to resolve issues.

The following guide provides you with an overview of the best free RAM Disk programs for devices running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

A RAM Disk, also called RAM Drive or RAMDisk, works in many regards just like a hard drive. The core difference is that it is a virtual hard drive that uses RAM for storage. With it come notable differences born out of that: a RAM Disk is faster than hard drives, and the storage space that it offers is only available during the session unless the software supports the saving and loading of disk images.

LXDE is known as one of the if not the lightest of the main desktop environments available for GNU/Linux.

LXDE is extremely minimalistic and comes with very little to no special effects, or resource hungry applications and tools.

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will shut down its open-source project hosting website CodePlex on December 15, 2017.

The company launched CodePlex in 2006 as a place to "share software". CodePlex enabled anyone to create and share projects. The site offered various tools for that, including a wiki software, source control based on Mercurial, Subversion, Git discussion forums, issues tracking, RSS support, and a lot more.

And so the patching of the Windows Creators Update before release of the final version of the Windows 10 Creators Update begins.

As I have mentioned earlier, it may be a bit premature to download and install the Creators Update right away. Users may download and install it on their machines using a leaked copy of the Update Assistant, or by downloading ISO images that are also available.

Google plans to roll out a new unified design for its sign-in page soon that will have the same look and feel on all devices you use.

Google changed the sign-in page several times throughout the years. The last change of the sign-in page dates back to 2015 which Google announced in pretty much the same way.

We talked about the upcoming Firefox interface design change, codename Photon, before here on Ghacks, and even revealed a mockup showing some of its interface elements last week.

Turned out later that the mockup was not by the Photon team, but by another Firefox team that used tidbits of Photon in the screenshot.

Anyway, if things go well, Photon will be part of Firefox 57. The browser is one of the most important releases for Mozilla in a long, long time.

Mozilla is working on a new security project for Firefox, called Binary Transparency, currently to allow all Firefox users to verify the binary files of the web browser to ensure that the files are safe and have not been tampered with.

Firefox is an open source project. This means that anyone may build the browser from source, and even change code before that.

Microsoft plans to release the Windows 10 Creators Update on April 11, 2017. The day coincides with April's Patch Tuesday, and marks the beginning of the roll out phase of the Creators Update.

Roll out phase means that Microsoft will release the update gradually to the Windows 10 population through Windows Update. The company did the same when it released the Anniversary Update, and that took some time to reach all user devices (weeks, in some cases months)