Category: Internet Tools

Grammarly is a free online tool that checks your spelling and grammar on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, in web forms and just about anywhere else you type online. This Windows and Mac app allows you to use the program outside your web browser, either as a free-form word processor or through importing text via the clipboard […]

While there are numerous free VPNs out there, they are not worth the risk. NordVPN makes a bold claim of being the “best VPN service” – and that’s a lot to live up to. While you have to pay to use the service, the price is easy to swallow, and there is even a 30-day […]

The days when landline phones provided the only opportunity to speak directly to people hundreds of miles away have long gone. Even mobile phones don’t have quite the same appeal as they once did, thanks to expensive call charges and tariffs. An increasingly amount of voice calls and text messages are made using all or […]

Firefox Beta is the build for those who like a little bit of jeopardy, but who don’t want to risk everything by trying out Firefox Developer, the early alpha build of Firefox. Firefox Beta gives you a sneak peek at the next version of Firefox six weeks ahead of its final release, offering a relatively […]

It may not enjoy the same level of attention as other heavyweight web browsers, but there’s still a lot to like about Opera. Rebooted in June 2013 as a Chromium-based variant, the new Opera’s early history was a troubled one, with many long-established features absent. Even now, some aren’t coming back – specifically Opera’s old […]

Is your e-book collection is a disorganised mess of different formats and competing viewers? It doesn’t have to be that way. Calibre is an e-book management tool that will quickly bring order to the situation, and help you get more from the format, and (if you have one) your portable e-book reader. The process starts […]

Vivaldi is a new browser from a team lead by Jon S. von Tetzchner, the co-founder of Opera. It’s Chromium-based, which ensures decent speeds, even for a Technical Preview. The user interface is built with JavaScript and React (“with the help of Node.js, Browserify and a long list of NPM modules”, apparently). The end result […]

64-bit is the future of computing and one obvious benefit of running a 64-bit version of an operating system is the fact it allows you to access more than 3.5GB of RAM, helping speed up your computer. Despite the growing popularity of 64-bit though, we’re still in that transitional phase where many applications are still […]

Microsoft never appears to be completely happy with their web browser. Despite having far more powerful alternatives, users paranoid about the dangers lurking around the internet would insist on using Internet Explorer. When Edge was first launched, in a rather basic form, with limited extension support, we used to receive complaints from people who’d bought […]

Back in the late 90s, the rage was to make Internet software as easy to use as possible. Indeed, I ran a business based around producing a suite of software that got users on to the net with ease. One particular suite, Turnpike, was sold to Demon Internet, for millions of pounds, before Microsoft started […]