Popular software programs and online services are more likely to be targeted by malicious users than less popular services. Facebook is currently the most popular social networking service on the Internet and security experts are noticing increased attacks on the network and its users. Several security companies are currently warning their users about a widespread [...]
Hotmail Watcher Notifies Of New Hotmail Emails In Firefox
If you perform a search for notifiers on the Internet you usually find lots of notifiers for Google services such as Gmail but not so many for comparably popular services from other companies such as Microsoft or Yahoo. Hotmail Watcher is a Firefox add-on that can notify the user whenever new email has arrived in [...]
Pageaddict Monitors Time Spent On Individual Websites
Monitoring the time that is spent online can be useful for some users. Most applications and browser plugins provide basic time monitoring options that basically record the time spent online as well as when it was spend. Pageaddict is a time tracking add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that uses a different measuring technique. [...]
Blacklist Google Search Results In Google Chrome
Google Blacklist allows Google Chrome users to blacklist specific domains or pages from appearing in the Google search results. This can be helpful in situations where results from a website should not appear in the search results. This is usually the case if the website is malicious, spam or absolutely irrelevant to the search topics. [...]
Greenie Linux: A distribution for ALL users
Recently (in my Pardus Linux article) Ghacks reader PeterB mentioned one of his favorite distributions Greenie Linux. Of course I had to give this a whirl and see what it was all about. At first I was a bit disappointed in that this Slovakian distribution had dropped English language support on the site. So learning [...]
Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer
One of the new features of the Windows 7 operating system is the taskbar preview feature which will display a thumbnail of taskbar items whenever the user moves the computer mouse over the icon in the taskbar. Windows 7 will then display thumbnails of the program windows plus additional information that include the title of [...]
No More Updates After March For Firefox 3.0
It is hard to explain why the Mozilla Firefox developers are currently maintaining three official release versions of the popular web browsers. Firefox 3.0.x, Firefox 3.5.x and Firefox 3.6.x are all official versions that can be downloaded from the Mozilla website. Recent plans announced by the developers outline that support for Firefox 3.0 will end [...]
Google Chrome Downloads Files Before User Confirmation
I have noticed a strange behavior in Google’s latest Chrome developer build. I’m not sure if the problem exists in other versions of the Chrome browser as well but it is likely that it does. Whenever you download a file with the Google Chrome web browser you see a small confirmation dialog at the bottom [...]
Put The Focus On Videos With Turn Off The Lights
Most video portals like Youtube or Dailymotion display lots of contents next to the videos that they host on their websites. This includes advertisements, user comments, the site navigation and other features like related videos. Those elements can be a distraction especially for sensitive Internet users. Turn Off The Light is an extension for the [...]