Website Caching is a technique to reduce the server load by sending visitors of the website static pages instead of dynamic ones. A normal request would query the database of the website and run all the commands references in the php files. That’s usually not a huge problem unless your website gets hit by a [...]
Microsoft Desktops
Mark Russinovich and his Sysinternals applications have an excellent reputation among IT professionals. The newest application Microsoft Desktops will surely add to that. It was developed by Mark and Bryce Cogswell and provides the user with up to four virtual desktops to organize the applications. The interesting aspect about Microsoft Desktops is that it is [...]
Boot Computer
The Internet is full of optimization tips for reducing the boot time and making the computer boot faster. Many of the tips described have virtually no effect or even ill-effects. The Boot Computer Faster article tries to bring the relevant elements to the table that have an effect on the computer startup speed. Many users [...]
The Complete Media Player Review (Part 1)
I was hoping all you gHacks readers could help me out with some feedback on one particular topic; Music jukeboxes. I have written up my thoughts, but I would genuinely like to hear all your opinions. I’m sure we all have our favourites, so I would love to hear exactly what it is that has [...]
Five Free Akapost Plus Upgrades For Grabs
I covered the email provider Akapost about ten days ago and liked what it had to offer. It was not your usual Gmail / Yahoo Mail kind of provider but one that would put an end to email spam to your mail inbox. This was achieved by acting as a proxy between the user’s email [...]
Rapidshare Downloading Tool For Premium Users
The creator of RapidWareX send me an email about his new Rapidshare Downloading Tool for premium users that he developed and published at Google Code. The first public beta was released just two days ago and it already received some acknowledgment from various websites. The difference between this Rapidshare tool and many others is that [...]
Hacker Breaks into FEMA Phone System, Makes $12,000 Worth of Calls
I just came across an amusing news excerpt about the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA, which is a part of Homeland Security. For those of you who don’t know, Homeland Security is a Cabinet department of the U.S. federal government with the responsibility of protecting the territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks and [...]
Wipe Hard Drive With e-Maxx
Before you sell or throw away hard drives you should make sure that the data on the hard drive gets erased properly and impossible to recover because some guys over at eBay love to buy used hard drives and recover their files to see if there is anything valuable to snoop on. A software that [...]
Internet Explorer HTTP Watch
HTTP Watch is a HTTP monitoring plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer that can give a detailed information about a website or application that is loading in the browser. The main reasons for using an application like HTTP Watch are troubleshooting, performance tuning and security checks. It’s mostly useful for webmasters but regular users might find [...]