Microsoft Office 2010 has been released by Microsoft. The popular Office suite is available in three different editions in retail shops: Office Home and Business 2010, Office Home and Student 2010 and Office Professional 2010. Office Home and Student 2010 is the basic Office edition retailing for $149.99. It includes the core Office modules Word, [...]
Best Of The Best Of This Year’s E3
This year’s E3 gaming convention had some very interesting hardware and game announcements for all popular gaming systems and the PC. The convention is still underway until June 17 but most developers have already shown their upcoming releases in conferences. The following selection includes some of the most promising looking games and devices that were [...]
Enjoy Vuvuzela-Free Football Matches With VLC And Mplayer
This football Worldcup in South Africa is notorious for two things until now. Boring football games and the annoying sound of the vuvuzela, the blaring horn that drowns all other background noises out. Some football watchers helped themselves by turning off the sound of the TV while others played around with their TV’s equalizer to [...]
How To Protect USB Sticks And The Data On Them
Carrying an USB-stick around with you can be beneficial in numerous situations. USB devices are for instance ideal to copy data without having to carry a larger device like a notebook or netbook around. They are also ideal for accessing portable programs on third party computer systems, nothing beats working with familiar programs on unfamiliar [...]
Backing up with Deja Dup
In a recent article I introduced to the Ghacks readers the latest release from Fedora (see “Fedoras Lucky 13“). In this article I mentioned a number of features that helped to make Fedora one of the more user friendly Linux distributions available today. One of the reasons this is so is the inclusion of some [...]
Windows Live Login With Single-Use Code
Most web users are accustomed to filling out login forms to access a web account. These login forms usually ask for the username and password of a account. The information entered by the user is then compared to the information in the site’s database and access is only granted if the username and password combination [...]
Mozilla Releases 7th Build Of Firefox 3.6.4
I was pretty much waiting for the announcement that the final version of Firefox 3.6.4 has been released. Imagine my surprise when I saw the notification that yet another beta build was released first. I have been a beta user ever since the first version of Firefox 3.6.4 came out. The latest build is a [...]
“Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” Coming Oct ‘10 from Microsoft Press by gHacks Editor
You know what it’s like when you’re sitting on really great news for several months but you can’t tell anyone? This is even worse writing for gHacks every day knowing I’m sitting on a great nugget :} Well after a long period of frustration I can now officially announce that I’ve been signed by Microsoft Press to write [...]
Introduction to iptables
If you’ve been around Linux long enough you know there are many ways to secure your box. What you may or may not know is that a number of those means are simply front-ends for the all-mighty iptables tool. IPtables is a very powerful, complicated system which can control packet traffic on your system. It [...]