I spend much of my time here on Ghacks using and talking about Ubuntu. So much so one would think it’s the only game in town. Well, it’s not and I am going to spend a bit of time focusing on different distributions. The first distribution I am going to focus on is OpenSuSE. OpenSuSE [...]
Portable Folder Monitor The Folder Spy
It can sometimes be important to monitor a folder in the Windows operating system to receive notifications if files are changed, added or deleted to it. The Folder Spy is a handy portable software program for Windows that can be used to monitor specific folders and their files. Folder Spy offers several advanced features despite [...]
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
Many websites use Google Analytics to track their traffic and optimize their website. It is for instance possible to monitor traffic trends, watch how keywords and ad campaigns perform and which hardware and software the users use to connect to the site. Google Analytics is implemented with JavaScript on the webmaster’s site so that it [...]
Facebook confirms new privacy settings rollout
Following the announcement yesterday by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that his company had “missed the mark” on privacy, the social networking giant today confirmed that a new set of privacy settings would roll out to users beginning tomorrow, May 26th according to the BBC. Facebook’s vice-president of product Chris Cox said the whole incident had [...]
Google Chrome 5 Stable Released
Up until today three versions of Google Chrome were available for download. Google Chrome 4 was the stable channel that was offered to all visitors who wanted to download the Google browser. The beta channel was already at version 5 while the developer release recently was bumped to version 6. This has changed today with [...]
Interesting Phishing Concept Tabjacking
By now most Internet users know what phishing stands for, or so they think. If you ask them to define phishing most will likely mention that it is about fake email links that lead to look-a-like copies of popular websites. What most users do not know is that their definition of phishing is not entirely [...]
Nitro PDF Reader
Many computer users have moved away from Adobe Reader to other pdf readers due to an increase in security issues over the last two years. Adobe Reader has become one of the prime targets of malicious attacks. The main advantage of third party pdf readers is not only that they are usually not affected by [...]
TCP Port Monitor Port Alert
Ports are numerical identifiers in host to host communications. Most users have probably heard of TCP and UDP ports before, likely when they had to configure their router or firewall to allow or block specific ports on a computer system. Port Alert is a freeware port monitor that can be used to constantly monitor specific [...]
Browse your Samba shares with pyNeighborhood
A long time ago, in order to scan your Samba shares, you used a tool called LinNeighborhood. That tool was essential if you wanted your Linux box to be able to see any Windows shares (unless you were brave enough to know the command line equivalents. Well years have passed and LinNeighborhood is now pyNeighborhood. [...]