My Encrypted Tunnel is a basic System Tray application that can be installed as a Windows Service to establish and maintain TCP SSH tunnels. Here is a short explanation of what SSH tunnels are and why they might be useful. If you connect normally to the Internet it is not difficulty for someone else to [...]
Joe Biden: Piracy’s New Enemy
Now that the US elections are over and the results are out, it’s worthwhile looking at how the winners fare with technology. Everyone knows that Barack Obama actively used the Internet while campaigning but what are his views on other things technology related? Most notably, how do the new guys plan to tackle issues like [...]
Ask The Readers: Recommended Security Software
We have been writing about great free software programs for more than three years now here at Ghacks and it is finally time to create a list of programs that we can recommend fully to anyone who is looking for a software with that functionality. It would not be Ghacks if we would not ask [...]
Launch Applications With The Mouse
Hot Corners is a relative small Open Source application for Windows operating systems. It was written in the Auto It language which means that some virus scanners detect it as a virus although it is not. The basic application of the software program is to launch functions, programs or services by moving the mouse around. [...]
Baresite Makes Mobile Browsing Affordable
Only a minority of cell phone owners have access to a data flatrate. Most have to cope with utterly insane pricing schemes and pay per Megabyte transferred. If you are old enough to remember; That’s how the first Internet Service Providers handled business when the Internet became popular in the Nineties. Some cell phone owners [...]
Social Network Status Generator
Have we come this far already? Desperate times require desperate measures it seems. To impress, one has to be witty. This is especially hard on social networks with millions of other users who want to impress as well. According to the developers of Generatus their product is ideal for the imaginatively challenged. Generatus is a [...]
Free Zonealarm Pro Tomorrow
George send me the tip via email. Checkpoint, the developers of Zonealarm Pro, will hand out the software program for free tomorrow. To be precise, it will be free starting at 6 AM PDT on Tuesday 18 and remain so for the next 24 hours. The url with the free offer will go live at [...]
Burn disc images quickly and for free
Windows’ built-in CD writing software lacks the ability to write a disc image (such as an ISO) to a disc, which forces people to have to buy software like Nero Burning ROM or find a freeware equivalent. This can be very annoying if a file generally distributed as an ISO, such as an operating system, [...]
Download Music From Imeem, Deezer or Jiwa
Freezer is a small portable application that runs on Windows XP or Windows Vista computers. The tiny 73 Kilobyte software program listens on port 8800 and turns any streaming music request of the websites Imeem, Deezer or Jiwa into a download. The proxy setting has to be configured in the web browser so that all [...]