The default address bar search engine in the Firefox web browser is Google Search. This means that any search phrase that the user enters directly into the Firefox address bar gets send to Google Search which returns either a direct hit or a search results page. Some Internet users might prefer to have a different [...]
Australia orders privacy probe into Google Street View
Australia’s Attorney General has instructed the country’s police to investigate search giant Google for possible breaches of privacy while taking photos for it’s Street View service. The investigation, reported by the BBC, has come about following complaints that Google gathered some personal data from unencrypted WiFi networks.
The Ultimate Guide To Keyboard Remapping
Many computer users think that the functionality provided by different keys on a computer keyboard is fixed in stone and cannot be changed at all. Most might be surprised to hear that it is possible to remap all keys on a computer keyboard in Windows.
HTML5 Test Your Web Browser
Most Internet users who read about HTML5 and how it is going to change the web might think it is all about HTML5 video as the controversy surrounding it was all over the news lately. But HTML5 promises more than just a new video web standard, it introduces several new elements and attributes while getting [...]
Critical Adobe Reader And Flash Vulnerabilities Emerge
Two new vulnerabilities affecting the Adobe products Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash were reported by Secunia earlier this day. They have in common that they have been both rated as extremely critical, the highest available severity rating for vulnerabilities posted at Secunia. Highly critical is a rating for “remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can lead to [...]
What Is A Magnet Link And How Does It Differ From Torrents?
If you have visited a Bittorrent website or torrent search engine lately you might have come upon magnet links that were offered on the torrent download pages. Chance is the magnet link did not really bother you since the torrent link was offered as well on the download page so that it could be downloaded [...]
Contain Junk email in Evolution
I’ve done a few articles about the Evolution groupware client here on Ghacks and I promise more. As Evolution is, essentially, the Outlook of Linux, it deserves plenty of attention. In this article I am going to show you how to tackle the task of handling junk email in everyone’s favorite open source groupware client. [...]
Get the Recovery Console back in Windows 7
One of the most useful operating system recovery tools in Windows XP was the recovery console. Here you could perform very useful tasks like repairing the Master Boot Record and the Boot Sector of the disk on which you had Windows installed. Then with the advent of Windows Vista Microsoft automated the process or repairing [...]
How To Install The Same Software On Multiple Computer Systems
Computer users with multiple PCs often want to deploy the same software on all of their machines to access the same data and work with the same configuration. That is relatively easy if the software offers data synchronization, some web browsers like Firefox, Opera or Google Chrome do for instance. It is on the other [...]