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…

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…

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…

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…

Despite the sheer number of browsers on the market, look under the hood and you’ll find virtually all of them are powered by a single browser engine. The major exception is Mozilla’s Firefox, which is powered by its own Gecko browser engine, and has long been a favourite of privacy-first…

These days, it’s increasingly common for people to find themselves working on more than one computer, or collaborating with others through remote shared folders. One of the biggest challenges you’ll face is giving yourself easy access to the latest version of your files. Cloud storage like OneDrive is one option,…

Modern technology enables a team to operate in different locations across your company and the world. If you’re a software developer, there’s no reason why you couldn’t pick the best programmers based in Germany, document writers from the UK, whilst your graphic artists could be based in the States. The…

Everyone needs a password manager – and these days they’re ten-a-penny, offering most of the core functionality you need from easy secure password management and generation to integration into your browser and ability to sync across multiple devices. What makes Bitwarden worthy of your attention then? For us, the fact…

XnConvert is a free, cross-platform, batch image converter that makes light work of converting and editing large numbers of image files in one fell swoop. With support for more than 400 image formats, and versions available for Windows, Mac and Linux, this is one of the most flexible and powerful…

Not everyone needs a full-blown PDF editor. For most people, their PDF editing needs go no further than being able to generate new PDFs from existing ones without having to edit any content. You might, for example, want to extract several pages from a large PDF document, or combine elements…