A passkey is a digital credential that is used as an authentication method for a website or application. The passkeys standard is a type of passwordless authentication, promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium and the FIDO Alliance. Google has announced that passkeys, touted by the tech giant as the “beginning of the end” for…
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Google Voice Still Here
Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. phone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States. It is used for call forwarding and voicemail services, voice and text messaging, as…
Windows Camera App
Windows Camera is an image and video capture utility included with the most recent versions of Windows and its mobile counterpart. It has been around on Windows-based mobile devices since camera hardware was included on those devices and was introduced on Windows PCs with Windows 8, providing users for the first time a first-party built-in…
Gimp’s Foreground Selection Tool
Making precise selections in GIMP is crucial in almost any project. GIMP has several tools to do this. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. There is no one tool for everything. The new kid on the block is “Foreground Selection Tool.” This tool lets you extract the foreground from the active layer or from a…
GIMP The Free Photoshop Alternative
GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists and creators have used it in this way. Like photoshop, playing the piano, or anything…
Snappy Driver Installer
If you’ve lost your driver discs, you’re unable to find drivers on the manufacturer’s web site or Windows Update can’t configure your hardware, use Snappy Driver Installer to quickly find and install all missing drivers. Snappy Driver Installer is a utility that accesses a massive database of divers against the hardware on your computer, updates…
Amazing Features In Rufus
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Rufus is amazing at creating OS installation media form ISO files that you’ve downloaded from the Internet, but did you know that Rufus can download those ISO files for you? Rufus can also disable all…
Belarc Advisor
The Belarc Advisor s an application that displays a detailed profile of your installed software, hardware and security vulnerabilities in your Web browser. The Belarc Advisor is licensed for personal use only and is not permitted to be used for any commercial or government purposes. One use case for Advisor is to find the Windows…
Free Genealogy Tools
Genealogy is a fun and rewarding activity. Finding out where you come from is very interesting, but it can cost a lot of money. Ancestry.com is a great tool for research and family tree building but it can cost as much as $338 per year for all access. The basic membership is $119 per year….
Free Diagram Editor
Dia is an application for creating technical diagrams. Its interface and features are loosely patterned after the Windows program Visio. Features of Dia include multiple-page printing, export to many formats (EPS, SVG, CGM, and PNG), and the ability to use custom shapes created by the user as simple XML descriptions. Get Dia! Get more Dia…
Good-N-Free Meetup 