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One more step, please complete the security check to access a site, may be displayed to you when you try to access certain sites on the Internet.

This happens to me a lot when I connect the device to a virtual private network or Tor. Usually, it means clicking on the "I'm not a robot" box first, and selecting images showing specific types of objects afterwards.

Etcher is a new cross-platform open source program to burn operating system images to SD cards and USB drives safely and securely.

My Surface Pro 4 ships without optical drive, and so do quite a few modern laptops and desktop PCs. It seems that optical discs are on their way to a niche existence; but this may come with a couple of issues.

IObit Uninstaller 6 is a long-standing program uninstaller for Windows devices that scans for and removes leftovers after the removal process.

A first beta version of Uninstaller 6 has been announced on the official forum. Downloads are provided by Majorgeeks currently.

The Z is a mouse created by Swiftpoint that aims to revolutionize how mice works by introducing new features that benefit all users.

When it comes to the mouse input device, not much has changed in the past decade or so. Manufacturers moved away from using a ball to power movement to other techniques, specialized devices came with dozens or more buttons, and DPI started to become important as well.

Apart from that, you still click on buttons to perform actions and that is about it for the majority of mice out there.

eBay Plus is a relatively new subscription feature on eBay that provides members with exclusive access to features such as premium shipping or free return shipments.

eBay Plus works in many regards just like Amazon Prime. eBay customers pay a yearly fee to become eBay Plus members, and benefit from the features that the membership provides them with for as long as they remain members.

You may not have heard of the feature up until now; the main reason for that is that it is only available on eBay Germany and no other eBay marketplace.

Material Audiobook Player is a free application for Android devices designed to make the experience of listening to audiobooks on Android better.

While you may use any audio player to play audiobooks on Android, most are not suitable for the task.

This may not matter all the time, but when you try to play long audiobooks or entire series, it matters.

For instance, there is usually no option to use bookmarks, or remember the last position of audiobooks.

WinReducer EX-100 is a program for Microsoft Windows devices that allows you to customize Windows 10 install media by adding or removing components.

Windows 10 ISO images used to install the operating system include components designed for all kinds of use cases and hardware.

It ships with drivers that individual users may never require, and programs or features that are not useful to the individual user either.

Personal Shopping Assistant is a free browser extension for Google Chrome designed to improve the shopping experience in several ways.

Microsoft Garage is a place where Microsoft employees tinker and create new solutions based on ideas they have.

The Chrome extension Personal Shopping Assistant is the latest product released by a Microsoft Garage project.

Even though it is called Assistant, it has nothing to do with the recent trend of pushing personal digital assistants in products.

Opera Software launched a new feature in Opera 40 Developer edition recently that introduces a new Search popup feature in the browser.

Opera displays a small popup next to text that you select in the browser. The popup displays actions to copy the text selection or run a search for it.

The selection of search runs a search in a new tab using the default search engine of the Opera browser.

If you wanted to cast content using Google Chrome, you had to use a browser extension for that until now.

This changes with the release of Chrome 51 and the integration of a native cast option. Google rolls out the feature currently which means that you may not see it yet in Chrome 51 or newer.

Basically, what it enables you to do is cast the current tab to a screen powered by a Google Cast device.

The Das Keyboard 5Q is a cloud-connected computer keyboard that is designed as a notification device as much as it is a keyboard.

Das Keyboard is one of the most popular mechanical keyboard brands.

Das Keyboard 5Q is a different kind of keyboard even though it shares characteristics with previous keyboard models.

Mozilla works on uplifting privacy settings of the Tor browser project to the Firefox web browser to provide privacy conscious users with additional privacy-related options.

While the Tor browser is based on Firefox ESR, it is modified with additional privacy and security settings to protect users of the browser while using the program.

DVDStyler 3.0, the latest version of the popular DVD authoring software, introduces support for new features such as animations or support for metadata.

The program is an all-in-one program to create DVD menus and burn video files as standard compliant DVD discs that play in practically any DVD player.

Apart from supporting the majority of audio and video formats, DVD Styler 3.0 supports photo slideshows to create photo DVDs.

We released a first version of a user.js file for Firefox that concentrated on privacy and security settings back in 2015.

It was the most comprehensive undertaking of its kind back then, and was made possible by Ghacks regular Pants who spend months researching entries and putting them in context.

Firefox, unlike the majority of non-Firefox browsers out there, comes with an extensive under-the-hood section of preferences that users can control.

Microsoft's free upgrade offer to Windows 10 ends on July 29, 2016 and will not be renewed at that time.

The company pushed Windows 10 on devices running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in different ways throughout the past eleven months since release.

First, it offered Windows 10 as an upgrade that users had to reserve to get. Later on, it used iterations of the Get Windows 10 App to push the upgrade often aggressively on user system.