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Scam alert: The popular Copyfish OCR browser extension has been hacked

Posted on July 31, 2017

Copyfish is a very popular Optical Character Recognition (OCR) browser extension that extracts text from images and videos so you can insert it into a regular text file.

OCR technology has been around for decades, but Copyfish and other extensions now make it easy to extract text right from within your web browser.

Unfortunately, one of the employees at A9T9 (the company behind the Copyfish extension) fell for a phishing attempt and effectively handed control of the Copyfish Chrome extension to a hacker. [Read more…]

Microsoft is once again giving away a boatload of free eBooks!

Posted on July 14, 2017

Every year Microsoft updates their massive library of free eBooks, and the list of their 2017 offerings has just been announced.

You’ll find eBooks for virtually every Microsoft product and service, all the way from Azure to Windows 10.

While most of these eBooks were written for developers on topics that won’t interest the average user, there are several great titles that will benefit most everyone. [Read more…]

Happy birthday, iPhone!

Posted on June 29, 2017

The very first Apple iPhones went on sale 10 years ago today, and that event forever changed the way we use technology.

Contrary to popular belief, the iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone. In fact, several other smartphones had already been in use for years before Steve Jobs took to the stage to unveil his newest innovation.

But those early smartphones were expensive and rarely found outside of government and corporate environments. The iPhone revealed to the masses that technology on such an incredible scale could actually be affordable.

Here’s a list of some of the things that smart phones have at least partially replaced since the first iPhone was sold: [Read more…]

Is your iPhone about to be orphaned by Apple?

Posted on June 12, 2017

If you have an iPhone you probably know that Apple is expected to release the update to iOS 11 in September.

What’s more, you probably also know that some of your favorite apps might no longer work after you update your device to the new version.

Well, there’s more to this story that just might impact you as well. [Read more…]

Chrome will soon start blocking annoying ads by default

Posted on June 7, 2017

Don’t you just hate those annoying ads that hide the actual content of a web page until you click a hard-to-find “Close” button?

Or how about the ones that force you to wait ten seconds while a timer counts down to zero?

And even worse, those ads that start playing audio at maximum volume just as soon as the page is loaded into your browser?

Well, I happen to despise those annoying types of ads, I’m guessing that you despise them too.

And apparently the folks at Google agree with us. [Read more…]