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Apple News app to stop pretending it’s the Safari browser. The new User-Agent makes it easier to measure success the App with existing web analytics solutions.

IPv6-capable websites can break the website security information displayed in the Netcraft anti-phishing toolbar for Firefox and Chrome.

Get the details on how GNMOE Web (formerly Epiphany) uses favicons and other website assets when installing websites as web apps on the Linux desktop.

Windows Backup doesn’t support encrypted backups in itself. However, you can still get encrypted backups using built-in tools in Windows 10.

Take control over your WordPress site’s HTTP Cache-Control response header directives with my easy-to-use WordPress plugin.

I’ve migrated from DigitalOcean to Linode. I was surprised to learn it used a Unified Linux Kernel (with no SELinux support) instead of the upstream kernel.

How to link to the special-purpose Windows license upgrade page on the Microsoft Store. Useful when referring people to upgrade from Home to Professional edition.

Mozilla is building a free alternative to the big tech companies’ location services. But they need help gathering signaling data from your neighborhood.

Software updates should happen automatically in the background without requiring constant restarts or pestering the user.

All the leading web browsers protect you against web fraud and websites known to distribute malware. You don’t get this protection with the smaller browsers.

A smart app connects your Linux desktop and Android device. It lets them share files and clipboard contents with each other encrypted over your local network.

Some of the default GNOME apps depended too heavily on hardcoded online APIs. They didn’t have backup plans for when those APIs went away.