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Adobe to officially (and mercifully) kill off Flash in December 2020

Posted on August 2, 2017

Adobe has announce in a blog post that they will officially “retire” Flash at the end of 2020, finally putting an end to their (and our) constant struggle to keep it updated and safe from hackers.

Flash was an amazing technology back in the early days of the web. It allowed content creators to fill our world with all kinds of active content that would otherwise have been difficult to produce.

But that is no longer the case.

Modern technologies have now made Flash obsolete, and one security flaw after another has made it downright dangerous. Thankfully, the end of the Flash era is in sight. [Read more…]

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…]