Another year has passed and I’m in my sixth now as a blogger and in my fourth as a fulltime blogger. The ride so far as been bumpy at times but pleasant mostly and I’m thankful for this opportunity. I have big plans for next year, not only concerning Ghacks but other existing sites and [...]
Easily install applications from within Firefox with Appnr
There are so many ways to install applications in Linux. There’s Synaptic, apt-get, dpkg, Ubuntu Software Center, and many more. In Ubuntu (or a Debian derivative) you can even install from your browser with the help of GDebi. But did you know there is another way to install with the help of the Firefox browser? That’s [...]
eBook Readers Might Not Spell the Death of Libraries After All
Amazon have now launched their latest salvo in the eBook wars, allowing people to borrow eBooks much like we’ve been doing with libraries for hundreds of years. The books can only be loaned once however and for a maximum period of 14 days. You can read loaned books on a Kindle or in any Kindle [...]
JunctionMaster, Relocate Folders Without Path Changes
Have you ever experienced a situation where a hard drive where you needed to store additional data on was not able to store the data because of size limitations? This happened to me after migrating the operating system to a Solid State Drive with 80 Gigabytes of space. Problem was the gaming platform Steam was [...]
BlueGriffon HTML Editor
When I have to create a new website I usually rely on scripts like WordPress that offer the core framework and are setup in a few minutes tops. The beauty of it is that I can then concentrate on the content after I have made some theme and plugin modifications. Very easy to to and [...]
Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro Giveaway And Review
Panda Cloud Antivirus is a free antivirus software for the Windows operating system that comes as a free and professional version which differ in functionality. Both versions offer antivirus protection that includes protection against trojans, viruses, rootkits and spyware and behavioral blocking against new and unknown threats. The pro version adds on top of that [...]
SpeedTest, Test Network, Internet Connection Speed
There are quite a few situations where you may want to test the network or Internet connection speed of the computer you are working on. It can be helpful to analyze network or connection problems for instance, or a tool for webmasters to find out how fast they can connect to their websites which is [...]
Finally a solid Pandora app for Linux
If you are a fan of Pandora Music and a user of Linux you know that Linux is a bit behind in the app space for this service. There are only a few possible clients and, until now, those clients simply were not options. The official Pandora client, due to flash issues, could bring your [...]
TrendMicro Browser Guard, Explorer Security Plugin
One of the biggest threats on the Internet these days are zero-day vulnerabilities that tend to get exploited quickly by people with malicious intents. The problem with these kind of vulnerabilities lies in the fact that the majority of computer users do not update their systems immediately. Reasons for this are manifold and range from [...]