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Privacy Checkup is a free tool by Google that lets you review and adjust privacy and account related Google Account settings.

Basically, it enables you to verify that the information that is revealed about you on the Internet matches your expectation.

To get started with Google's Privacy Checkup tool, visit this web page on the official Google My Account website.

Opera Software just released Opera 35 Final, a new version of the web browser introducing several new features including audio muting, download manager improvements and better customization options.

The first stable release of the Opera browser in 2016 introduces a whole new set of features to the browser.

If you’re remotely tech savvy or follow tech sites like this one, then you already know that there are numerous utilities that can recover all sorts of stored passwords and registration keys.

For example: the passwords stored in your browser(s), the WIFI passwords stored in your machine, passwords hidden behind asterisks inside various programs, Windows and Office registration keys recovery, and Windows credentials recovery (i.e. passwords that Windows uses to access some services such as your home network, etc.)

7Stacks is a program for the Windows operating system that enables you to bundle links to multiple files and folders into a single icon accessible on the operating system.

Windows users have a couple of options when it comes to launching program on devices running the operating system.

They may place icons on the desktop, use the start menu, add icons to the Windows taskbar if Windows 7 or newer versions are used, use the command line, use File Explorer, or use third-party tools.

Microsoft changed the state of the "upgrade to Windows 10" update for Windows 7 and 8.1 devices to recommended on February 1, 2016 from optional.

Microsoft continues to push Windows 10, and as the company announced back in October 2015, made the upgrade to its latest operating system Windows 10 a recommended update on devices running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.

Synced Tabs is a new feature that is planned for Firefox 47 that will display tabs from other devices connected to a Firefox Sync Account in the browser's sidebar.

Mozilla is working on several improvements to how synced data is accessed in the Firefox browser on the desktop.

It plans to push out a new button in Firefox 45 which enables Sync users to access tabs from other devices Firefox is running on with a click on it.

Barracuda Networks announced plans yesterday to retire its cloud storage services Copy and CudaDrive on May 1, 2016.

The company launched the cloud storage service in 2013, in a period when many company launched or improved their online storage offerings.

Copy had a lot going for it. It was backed by Barracuda Networks, an established company in the storage and technology field, offered clients for all major desktop and mobile systems, and an interesting option to share files directly with other users of the service.

Google's popular online virus scanning service Virustotal received an update recently that enables users of the service to scan firmware just like other files.

One of the biggest strengths of Virustotal is its multi-engine scanning support which tests files uploaded to the service using more than 40 different antivirus engines.

Vpnify.me is a free speed testing service for VPN services and servers that runs upload and download bandwidth speed tests regularly to show to users of the service how servers of specific providers do speed-wise.

When it comes to the selection of a VPN Provider, speed, next to privacy, security and availability, is one of the main factors that many users are interested in.

Ideally, you would not notice a difference between the actual speed of an Internet connection and the throughput of the VPN server, but that is often not the case.

My Disk Wiper is a free program for the Windows operating system to delete data on disks securely so that it cannot be recovered anymore.

There are quite a few situations where you may want to wipe a disk clean of any data, for instance before you hand it over to someone else, say as a gift to a family member or colleague, or sell it on eBay or another marketplace.

If you are not careful, the new owner of the device or disk could restore data on it, especially if you have taken no precautions or ones that don't protect data from restoration properly.

Picklor: Camera Color Picker is a free application for Android devices that you can make use of to identify any color using the device's built-in camera.

If you are a designer, interested in colors or have issues identifying colors correctly at times, you may like the idea of identifying colors that you come across using your Android device.

As a designer for instance, you may fall in love with a color or colors immediately, and want to know more about them as you may use them in future projects of yours.

LanTorrent is a free program for the Windows operating system that prevents torrent file corruption by backing up the configuration and ensuring that all resources are available before launching the torrent client.

If you download and seed torrents regularly, you may have come upon a situation where you had to move files to another directory or even a network location.

Maybe you do so regularly once torrent files are complete on the local system, maybe you do it occasionally to free up disk space.

CustomizerGod is a free portable program for Windows that provides you with options to customize icons and the branding of the operating system.

Windows offers only limited icon customization options. While you can change some icons, either directly or by changing settings in the Windows Registry, the operation is not comfortable and error prone at the same time.

Mozilla runs an experiment currently in which some of the participating Firefox users see a unified address bar and search bar in the browser.

Of all the major browsers available for the Windows operating system, Mozilla Firefox is the only one that is offering an address bar and a search bar to its users by default.

Firefox users can customize the browser directly and through the use of add-ons to remove the search bar and use the address bar exclusively for searches and direct access to Internet resources.

E-Mail History Browser is a third-party standalone program for the Windows operating system that enables you to browse email archives independent of installed clients on the machine.

The program has not been designed to read emails but to display a thorough account of the email communication history of one or multiple archives on the computer.