Michael Reed examines the latest Ubuntu release and finds that it’s a solid offering but unlikely to get your heart racing. Read our Ubuntu 22.10 Review. IN BRIEF Another Ubuntu release brings another set of small, general improvements to a reliable formula that hasn’t changed in years. It’s a stable base for business users and … Read more
What we like Whether you use it as your main webmail provider or as a secondary account for sensitive messages, email services don’t come more private than Proton Mail. You don’t need to provide any personal information when setting up an account, and your IP address isn’t logged, so you can send and receive messages … Read more
Not just one operating system, Puppy Linux is a diverse collection of lightweight operating systems designed for efficiency. By Bruce Byfield. Read our Puppy Linux Review. All distributions are different, but Puppy Linux [1] is more so than most. In fact, some who develop or use Puppy Linux assume from past experience that media coverage … Read more
Hardware doesn’t get slower as it ages. Rather, we demand more and more of it by installing software and updates which its components were never designed to handle. In essence, it takes longer for the same hardware to process the increased number of instructions being thrown at it, and inevitably it feels like it’s running … Read more
Over the years, Microsoft has tried a few different ways of providing at-a-glance information inside the main Windows interface. In Windows Vista and 7 we had gadgets, which then turned into Live Tiles in Windows 8 and 10. Those disappeared in the move to Windows 11, to be replaced by a set of widgets that … Read more
Rocky Linux steps into the breach left by CentOS with a community-based alternative to RHEL. By Bruce Byfield. Read our Rocky Linux Review. Red Hat Linux bought CentOS in 2014, but largely ignored it for years. Essentially, CentOS was the community version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), both deriving from Fedora. Then, in December … Read more
Bitdefender Total Security is as good as it ever was. Since we last looked, the company has improved its real-time data protection scanning and vulnerability assessment, and it builds on previous advances such as the easier readability of its vulnerability scan results. Read our Bitdefender Total Security Review. BY IAN PAUL The vulnerability scan is … Read more
Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 7 for market share, but it took nearly a year from its launch last October – and it’s still far behind Windows 10. Microsoft hopes that the new tools in the operating system’s first Feature update, called 22H2, will see it gain more ground. Read our Windows 11 updated … Read more
VIDEO TOOL OBS Studio 28 www.snipca.com/43189 What you need: Windows 10 or 11, macOS or Linux Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio is celebrating its 10th anniversary by releasing this feature-packed version of its powerful software for recording and streaming live video. Unlike similar tools, all its options are free to use and it’s open-source, which … Read more
Q I have a couple of stuck (or dead) pixels on my BenQ monitor which – although they’re obviously very small – I find annoying when working in Word, because I keep thinking they’re punctuation. Is there any free software that can fix a stuck pixel? Steve Batchelor A Dead pixels, by their nature, can’t … Read more
Thinking of switching to the newest Windows version or already accomplished that step? Either way – good for you. Windows 11 is an excellent choice of an operating system as it is swift, efficient, and devoid of flaws common in earlier versions. However, in the face of the transition you might wonder if some programs … Read more
More than 30 million people visit YouTube every day to watch clips of TV shows, music videos, the latest ‘viral’ content and much more, making it the second most popular website in the world (after Google Search). Sadly, we suspect that many visitors have recently reached the same conclusion we have: YouTube is getting worse. … Read more