Tag: Internet Tools Software reviews

Flagfox is a simple Firefox extension that displays a flag icon to represent the current website’s server location. Hovering your mouse over the flag will reveal the server’s IP address, and double-clicking it provides access to a map of the server, ISP details, Whois records and more. While this all sounds very basic, it’s surprising […]

OnionShare is an open-source Tor-based tool for sharing files securely and anonymously. Rather than using public servers (from companies such as Google Drive, DropBox, WeTransfer) to host your files for sharing, OnionShare uses the ‘DarkNet’, meaning no-one knows where they are hosted, sourced or who supplied them originally. This is powered by the popular Tor […]

Think open-source email client, and Mozilla’s Thunderbird comes to mind, but despite resuming development after years of neglect, there are still frustrations with the project. Betterbird is one of several forks designed to address these issues, with the added cachet of being run by the man who maintained Thunderbird while it was on life support. […]

We now all use so many online services that using a traditional web browser has become something of a nightmare. If you don’t want to have to keep typing URLs or clicking bookmarks, you probably have a large number of tabs open for you email, your social networks, you chat tools and numerous other things. […]

Just how many web browsers does the world need? Norwegian browser specialist Opera thinks the more the merrier. Opera Air joins its primary (recently rebadged Opera One) and uber-customisable Opera GX browsers to offer a simple, yet soothing, alternative. We’re always being told to take regular time out from working at our computers to avoid […]

Not everyone gets by with the default browser on their computer, and when it comes to picking an alternative, Firefox is one of the most popular out there, having clawed back support from upstart rivals like Google Chrome and Opera in recent years by switching to a rapid release cycle, ensuring major new versions of […]

Just as Firefox has been moved onto an accelerated release schedule, so Mozilla has increase the speed at which updates are released for its email client, Thunderbird. At any one time there are three different versions of Thunderbird available – the stable release, the beta version of the following release (this version of the application), […]

The web is so ubiquitous these days that many people think that it’s the internet as opposed to an – admittedly – ever-increasing part of it. There’s email, usenet (for newsgroups) and FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and is used for the storage and transfer of files over the internet. Although largely eclipsed […]

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) is, essentially, a slower-moving, more stable version of the regular browser. While standard Firefox sees a major release every 6 weeks or so, Firefox ESR will only move a whole release number every 54 weeks, meaning that you’re much less likely to find some new tweak has broken your […]

Your email client is probably one of your most used applications. There are many clients to choose from as well as the option of working online with any of a number of webmail services. As well as handling your emails, your client can be used to do much, much more – as proved by eM […]