You sometimes encounter websites or text on the Internet, in emails or in documents on your computer desktop that are written in a language that you either do not understand completely or have only a limited knowledge of. Automatic translation services are one of the most comfortable and fastest ways of translating these information into [...]
Torrent Search Engine TorrentFetcher
Several torrent applications such as uTorrent provide access to a torrent search that originates in the client software. Most launch the search on a website in the default web browser instead of displaying the search results in their own interface. TorrentFetcher, a desktop Torrent search engine, offers torrent search capabilities right from its interface. Everything [...]
Transfer And Backup Files With File Transfer Software Fling
We have spotted Flint in Lee’s awesome list of 40 awesome free Windows apps you can download in 2 seconds where he listed 40 free and lightweight software programs. It is definitely a good read and who knows, you might find a few programs that you have not heard about. Make sure to check the [...]
How to install Nagios on Ubuntu server
Are you one of those special geeks that think there is never TMI (too much information)? If that describes you then Nagios is the monitor for you. Once installed, Nagios will keep you busy with more information about your system than you ever thought possible. But it’s not just a matter of running apt-get install [...]
The Most Dangerous Web Search Terms
Which search terms would make it on the list if you would have to compile a list of the ten most dangerous web search terms? Most users would probably add search terms like warez, cracks and sex when asked to compile a top ten list. A recent McAfee study on the other hand came to [...]
Internet Privacy Study
Three researchers of the UC Berkeley School of Information have published results of an Internet privacy study that analyzed web privacy, data collection and information sharing on today’s Internet. Interested users can download the fill Internet privacy report from the project’s website or view the majority of its findings directly on the website. Each of [...]
Xbox Project Natal
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo was packed with exciting game and hardware announcements from virtually every gaming company in existence. One presentation dominated the gaming hardware announcements; And that was Project Natal for the Xbox. Project Natal aims to offer controller-less gaming on the Xbox gaming systems. It looks a bit like a mixture of [...]
Disable AppleMobileDeviceService.Exe, iTunesHelper.exe and iPodService.exe
Users of the Microsoft Windows operating system who install the music manager iTunes will notice a large number of background processes that are connected to that program. The processes that all users are going to see are AppleMobileDeviceService.Exe, iTunesHelper.exe and iPodService.exe with some running in the background even if iTunes has not been opened since [...]
5 Advanced Bing Tips
The coverage of Microsoft’s new search engine Bing was quite extensive here on Ghacks but also on many other sites on the Internet. This is going to slow down in the future but we have two articles about Bing that we would like to publish in the coming days. The first deals with 5 advanced [...]