One of the best software programs to convert video files to DVD is the commercial Convert X To DVD which we introduced during our Christmas Giveaway last year. The program is super easy to use and can create DVDs out of many different video formats including avi, flv and mpg. ZC DVD Creator Platinum can [...]
Perform Plain Google Searches Without Video, Image And News Results
If you perform a Google search nowadays you get mixed search results. Google not only displays the first ten pages that is has in its index for the entered keyword but also image, video and news results. Sometimes ads are also added to the search results and placed on top of everything else. Some search [...]
Fences 1.0 RC Released
Stardock has released the release candidate of their popular desktop management software Fences. Fences, which has been reviewed at Ghacks before (see: Unclutter Your Desktop With Fences), can be used to define groups on the Windows desktop that can be hidden easily so that the computer desktop appears clean and uncluttered. A double-click on the [...]
Hide Applications In Windows
Some applications display an interface, program window or command line window if they are executed even though this is not needed for the program execution. It is usually possible to minimize the application window to the Windows system tray after it appeared on the computer screen but not before that is happening. Hide App has [...]
Samsung A Day In The Life Viral Marketing
There are only a few companies that seem to make use of the Internet and its new possibilities in their marketing campaigns as Samsung. You might remember the viral marketing campaign for their new solid state drives where they gave 24 of their drives to some computer freaks to see what they could do with [...]
Phishing Protection Tips
It is time to update the phishing protection article that we published some time ago (see Phishing explained) with the recent news that thousands of Hotmail users (and apparently Gmail users as well) fell pray to yet another phishing scam. What is phishing? Phishing, which stands for password fishing, is a popular technique to get [...]
What makes Ubuntu so user friendly?
Of all the Linux distributions, the consensus is beginning to become clear that Ubuntu is, hands down, the most user friendly of the Linux distributions. Naturally there are people that claim other distributions like PCLinuxOS, and Linux Mint are even more user-friendly than Ubuntu. But what exactly makes a Linux distribution user-friendly? I have been using [...]
Price Comparison With Invisible Hand For Firefox
Price comparison is one of the essentials things that Internet users should do before buying a product on the Internet. It does not matter if they do it manually by visiting several Internet shops that carry the product or use one of the price comparison services. Users can save lots of money when comparing prices [...]
Test The Phishing Protection In Firefox
There are basically two options to protect computer systems (and their users) from phishing attacks. The first are protections in programs like email clients or instant messengers that are commonly used to spread phishing links while the second method blocks the web browser from opening those links (when they have already been clicked on). The [...]