Many Ghacks readers use Google Reader as their main RSS feed reader. It offers an impressive list of features and options and is generally considered to be one of the best RSS feed readers available. One prime advantage over desktop clients is that the update process does not use resources of the local computer system. [...]
Best Games Of E3
E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, has opened its doors yesterday. It is one of the biggest gaming events of the year which usually sees a lot of game announcements, trailers and ingame video feeds for the PC and video consoles such as PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. The following list is a collection of [...]
Opera 10 Beta
The developers of the Opera web browser have just released the first beta of the upcoming Opera 10 Internet browser. The beta was available on Opera’s ftp site for a day and got finally announced by the Opera team officially in a blog post. One of the main improvements is the addition of the Presto [...]
Jinni – the Best Movie Recommendation Engine
For years there was really only one website I used to get information and reviews for movie releases – IMDB. Lately however the site has been feeling a bit dated, and comprehensive as it is, a bit lacking when you want to go beyond movie data, and instead find new movies based on your existing [...]
Recursively encrypt directories with gpgdir
Recently I wrote an article about Encrypting and decrypting files with GnuPG. This article described how to encrypt single files in with the help of gpg. But what happens if you have a directory full of files? Sure you can tar the directory up and encrypt the files as a single file. But that isn’t [...]
Windows 7 To Launch October 22
The guesses about the release of the next Microsoft operating system Windows 7 ranged from a release in early 2009 to a later release in 2010. The last months changed that wide range a bit when Microsoft officially confirmed that they were aiming for a 2009 holiday season release. Today Ina Fried published an article [...]
Google Chrome Adblocker
The first extensions for the Google Chrome browser are finally being released and available for users who want to add functionality to the web browser that everyone is calling Google Browser. There is still no build in extension manager in the web browser which makes the installation of the extensions more complicated than other web [...]
Join The Experiment: One Week Of Bing Only Searching
What better way to test a new or improved search engine than to be stuck with it for a full week without being able to fall back to other search engines. Bing is the new Microsoft search engine and we would like to invite each and everyone of you to test the ins and outs [...]
Free Spyware Removal Tools
There are hundreds if not thousands of free spyware removal tools for the Windows operating system. The choice ranges from to popular spyware removal tools such as Windows Defender, Spybot Search And Destroy or Spyware Terminator to lesser known anti spyware software programs and even so called rogue applications that look like spyware removal tools [...]