Not logging out can be a huge privacy risk, especially on public computers but also on other computer systems that multiple users have access to. Why is that? Because everyone accessing the computer after the user may access that user’s profile on Internet websites. That was reason enough for Facebook to add a new option [...]
Drive-Thru Disk Management Software
Drive-Thru is a portable disk management software for Windows. The software offers direct disk related configuration changes in an easy to use interface. The program displays different options on the startup window, and in three other tabs. In the drive security tab it is possible to hide drives from the computer, lock drives and disallow [...]
Modify LDAP entries with the ldapmodify command
Recently I’ve done a number of articles covering the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which range from installation, adding entries, to full-blown GUI management tools (See LDAP content on Ghacks for more information). If you’re in the dark about LDAP is an application protocol that allows the querying and modifying of directory services data implemented on IP networks. Basically [...]
Group Communication Software RaidCall
Voice communication has become an essential part of multiplayer gaming, from professional e-sports to guilds in World of Warcraft, video gamers and friends who play shooters or strategy games in the evening. PC gamers basically have the choice between three different types of voice communication applications. First those that are implemented directly in a game, [...]
Windows Phone 7 is Released to Manufacturing
Microsoft have reached a big milestone with their new smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 7. Today, Terry Myerson the Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Engineering has announced that it has been finalised and released to manufacturing. This means that the version of the operating system Microsoft have released today, is the same version that [...]
Windows Explorer Tabbed Browsing For Windows 7
QTTabBar was one of the best, if not the best, tabbed browsing plugin for Windows Explorer. The original developer stopped working on the software in January 2009, and it became apparent with the release of Windows 7 that the original version of the program was not compatible with Windows Explorer in Windows 7. That was [...]
Steam Mover, Automated Tool To Move Games And Apps To Other Drives
What a coincidence! Yesterday we have shown you how to move the Steam folder to another drive, and today we read about a program called Steam Mover that does something similar. Despite its name, Steam Mover not only works with Steam games, but practically any application installed in the Windows operating system. The software makes [...]
Chrome Stable 6, Firefox 4 Features Axed
Some things do not seem to be right. While Google does not seem to have problems increasing the stable releases of their Chrome browser in a four month turnus, other’s like the Mozilla gang have decided to cut features from the upcoming Firefox 4 release to meet the end of the year release deadline. But [...]
Browser Market Share August 2010
There has not been a lot of movement in the browser market in August 2010. Microsoft lost 0.34% with their Internet Explorer browser while Google gained nearly the same share (0.36%). Firefox remained stable and gained 0.02%, Safari gained 0.07% and Opera lost 0.08%. The picture looks different when individual browser versions are analyzed. Internet [...]