Yesterday I walked you through the process of connecting to a Microsoft PPTP VPN (see my article “Connecting to a Microsoft VPN with Linux“). That article used a simple GUI tool to allow you to create your VPN tunnel. Unfortunately there is no magic support you can add to the Network Manager Applet to add [...]
Dr.Web CureIt Antivirus Software Review
There is no antivirus software that will catch all viruses. Even the best security applications do not have a perfect detection rate which means that it can happen that a virus slips past them and infects the computer system. There are a few options to cope with this problem like sandboxing, using virtual machines or [...]
Google SEO Report Card
Google Search is the most popular search engine in the world with a market share of at least 60% in most countries. It is therefore only natural that most webmasters optimize their websites for Google Search. Search engine optimization has on the other hand no rulebook where everyone could get the information needed to optimize [...]
Microsoft Releases Blue Screen Rootkit Detection Tool
Last month’s Microsoft security updates have caused some controversy over a single patch in the pack that was first thought to cause blue screen on some computer systems. It later turned out that the patch was not responsible for the blue screens but a rootkit that had altered some files of the operating system. The [...]
Watch Cebit Keynotes And Panels Live
Cebit, which stands for Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik (that’s German for Centre of Office and Information technology) is the world’s largest computer expo held ever year in Hannover, Germany. Companies and manufacturers from all over the world showcase new and improved products during Cebit making it a must attend show. Cebit Live is an [...]
Connecting to a Microsoft VPN with Linux
One of the Achilles heels of the Linux operating system is connecting to a VPN. Due to it’s natural ability to network, one would think connecting to a VPN would be a simple task. In some cases it is. In some cases it certainly is not. This is completely dependent upon the type of VPN [...]
Opera 10.50 Final Released
Opera 10.50 final was released just a few minutes ago after five published release candidates in the last 48 hours. Most users who have noticed the increased development pace of the new Opera browser suspect that it had something to do with the introduction of the so called browser ballot screen in Europe which can [...]
Thunderbird 3.0.3 Email Client Out
It seems that the Opera developers are not the only developers who have increased their output in the past weeks. The desktop email client Thunderbird 3.0.3 has been released only a week after Thunderbird 3.0.2. Short time between two releases is usually an indication that the first release contained a bug or security issue that [...]
Speed Reading Software ReadPal
If you are a regular here at Ghacks you already know of programs that can increase the visibility of text on the Internet. We have reviewed quite a few of them in the past including the Readability bookmarklet. These tools basically remove all the clutter on a website so that the reader can concentrate on [...]