Chance is that you have Microsoft Internet Explorer installed if you are a Windows user. It is there even if you do not use it. What makes things worse for many is the fact that a lot of third party applications use the scripting engine of Internet Explorer to display web contents. A popular example [...]
Bad Company 2 Configuration Tool
Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a very popular computer game at the moment topping lots of sales charts and game charts. Dice and Electronic Arts had to cope with many initial usability and server problems in the beginning, something that does not seem to have affected the game’s popularity by much. PC users who want [...]
Mozilla Plugin Check Now Checks Plugins In All Web Browsers
The Mozilla developers introduced the Mozilla Plugin Check back in October 2009 as a way to inform users of the Firefox web browser about outdated plugins. Plugins that are not up to date can pose both a security and stability risk. The plugin check would analyse the plugins of the web browser and compare their [...]
Easy flickr uploads with Postr
For those that use Flckr, it’s always easiest when you have a simple tool that allows quick and painless file uploading. Although logging onto the web site and using the built-in Flickr uploader isn’t difficult, when you have a number of images, or when you upload frequently, this can be a real hassle. So having [...]
Microsoft Security Updates May 2010
The Microsoft security updates for May 2010 are now available for download and installation. Microsoft has released a total of two security bulletins that fix vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Basic. The maximum severity rating has been set to critical. The critical rating applies only to some operating systems and applications. [...]
Taskhost.exe Process Explained
The Windows Task Manager lists the processes that are currently running on the computer system. Security conscious users monitor the processes regularly to make sure that no new or rogue processes are running on their personal computer. Some processes, like firefox.exe or explorer.exe can be identified immediately by their name while others, like taskhost.exe or [...]
JRE Download
Thr JRE, Java Runtime Environment, contains a Java Virtual Machine, class libraries and other files that are needed to execute Java programs on a computer system. It has been designed for end users systems as it does not contain tools to develop Java applications like the Java JDK. It basically boils down to this: If [...]
gHacks welcomes Mike Halsey to the staff
gHacks is today happy to announce the addition of Mike Halsey to the editorial staff. Mike is the author of The Windows 7 Power Users Guide, which he describes as… “A book for people who use Windows 7 at home or at work and know it can do more for them, but who don’t know [...]
Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts Configuration
The Google Chrome web browser comes with a series of keyboard shortcuts that can be used to execute commands in the web browser. This ranges from opening new tabs with the Ctrl-t shortcut over Ctrl-p for printing to Shift-Esc for the task manager. A complete list of Chrome shortcuts is available at the Google Chrome [...]