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LastPass announced today that all users of its password management solution are now able to sync data across all their devices for free.

LastPass is a popular password management solution for desktop and mobile devices that uses the cloud for storage.

The company offers free and premium accounts to its users. Probably the biggest limitation up until now was that free users could only use LastPass on a single device class.

Google is testing a new experimental flag on Chrome for Android currently that moves the URL bar of the mobile browser to the bottom.

The URL bar, or address bar, is one of the core components of the browser. It is an interactive field that users can type in to search or load sites directly, and it also reveals the address of the current page on top of that.

Since it is such an essential piece of any browser, it comes as no surprise that developers have not experimented a whole lot with placements for the URL bar.

You may have noticed that update checks on Windows 7 machines may take a long, long, long time to complete before any updates are displayed for download and installation.

Some users have reported that it took them days to get the initial list of updates displayed to them. That's unacceptable on several levels, but more importantly leaves the operating system open to attacks and issues for that period of time.

As you may know, Microsoft disabled some policies from working on Windows 10 Pro systems in the Anniversary Update.

Among the things that Windows 10 Pro admins cannot configure anymore is the lock screen behavior, or more precisely, the policy to turn off the lock screen.

Reports are coming in that Windows users may still upgrade their devices to Windows 10 provided that they have a Windows 7 or 8 key.

LastPass launched a new version of the company's Authenticator application for Android and iOS devices yesterday that makes the 2-factor authentication process easier.

Duplicacy is a file backup solution for Windows and Mac devices that supports local and remote backup storage locations among other things.

Add-on companies are selling the browsing history of millions of users to third-parties according to a report that aired on German national TV.

Reporters of Panorama managed to gain access to a large data collection that contained the browsing history of roughly 3 million German Internet users.

Instapaper Premium, the commercial version of the read-it-later service, is now available for free for all existing and new users.

The company announced today that it has enabled features formerly reserved to premium customers for all Instapaper user accounts.

Existing Instapaper Premium users will get prorated refunds for their subscription, and Instapaper guarantees that accounts won't be billed anymore.

SoftPerfect File Access Monitor, previously a commercial program, has been released as a freeware version by its parent company.

The program has been designed to monitor file operations such as read or write on Windows machines.

File Access Monitor supports the monitoring of local and network connected systems. Setup of the application is not overly complicated but it is still not as easy as clicking on its shortcut to start it up.

The most recent version of Opera Max, a free VPN app for Android, adds time limitations to the service which require users to become active to continue benefiting from Opera Max.

Google announced today that the company's Chrome 53 web browser is up to 15% faster on Windows thanks to a technique called Profile Guided Optimizations.

The following guide provides you with three methods to clear the Windows Clipboard from content that it holds at the time.

Microsoft has not improved the clipboard functionality of its Windows operating system in a long time. Even the Windows 10 version allows you to only hold one entry in the Clipboard at all times. When you copy something new, the old is no longer available.

AllDup 4.0 has been released; the popular duplicate file finder for the Microsoft Windows operating system ships with search, interface, and customization improvements.

You may download the new version of the program  as a portable version that you can run from any location after download and extraction, or as an installer if you prefer it that way.

The program opens with an interface that has been redesigned. Especially the iconography is different and may be easier to understand for first time users.

FastStone Image Viewer 6.0 is the latest version of the popular image browser, converter and editor for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

The new version of the application introduces a -- very comfortable -- new option to jump between servers while using it to viewing images among other things.

Nothing has changed in regards to how the program is offered: FastStone Image Viewer 6.0 is free for home use, and can be downloaded as a portable version or installer for users who prefer that. The program is ad-free and comes with a no-spyware guarantee.