An update to the Internet browser Firefox has been released a couple of hours ago out of the usual release cycle. It is a security update that is fixing one critical security vulnerability and one major stability issue. Critical security vulnerabilities are classified as those that require no user interaction and allow the attacker to [...]
Cartoon shootout with Battlefield Heroes
A new chapter in the Battlefield series is coming out soon, and there are free beta keys being handed out, so go over there this instant and get one for yourself! The new game brings a huge change, instead of going for realism, they went for a cartoon look, which looks pretty stunning I think. [...]
Increase Website Readability With TidyRead For Firefox
Internet browsers have not seen many advancements in increasing website readability in the last years. Most web browsers provide access to settings to change the fonts, sizes and colors but that’s about it. The rise of add-ons, userscripts and bookmarklets did what the Internet browsers did not: They provided the means to increase website readability.
Introducing Appnews
Appnews is a new software update notification service that provides software updates via rss, twitter or email. It is the brainchild of long time Ghacks reader Rarst and combines notifications about software updates with links to reviews of those software programs on the websites Freeware Genius, Ghacks and Rarst. Every new entry consists of the [...]
5 Things Linux does better than Windows
We’ve started the debate. We’ve discussed 5 Reasons you should switch to Linux right now, and 5 Good reasons to switch to Linux. Now it’s time to up the ante and discuss some of the things Linux does better than Windows. Some of you may scoff and say “There is nothing Linux does better than [...]
Increase Internet Security With Safe SSL
Safe is an extension for the Firefox Internet browser that increases Internet security quite a bit by visualizing safe SSL connections to the user. We have covered similar security extensions and applications in the past which changed the display of the address bar of the web browser to increase security. Today’s Internet users encounter SSL [...]
Windows Operating Systems Special Folders View
Windows operating systems come with several special folders that have been designed by Microsoft for the purpose of easier access. The My Documents and Desktop special folder are examples. Many users do not know where to find these special folders in the folder hierarchy as they access them directly from the start menu and by [...]
How To Remove Third Party Services In Windows
Sometimes things go bad. You try to uninstall a software program that you do not longer need or recover a computer system after a hard drive crash only to find out that some traces of old programs are still in the system. One of these places is Services in the Windows operating system. What are [...]
Unknown File in Winsock LSP NWPROVAU.DLL
A recent scan of a Windows XP SP3 computer system with HijackThis displayed the following entry in the results: O10 – Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:\windows\system32\nwprovau.dll. Nwprovau.dll is usually installed for the IPX / SPX protocol, something that is rarely – if at all – used anymore these days. It is still in most [...]