I bet you have read a lot about Facebook Messages, Facebook’s new communication hub, in the past 24 hours. Like most users I’m still waiting for my invite to try out the new service. But even without having tried it yet I can make the statement that Facebook Messages will not replace my primary email [...]
Finding the Right Way to Power Your Devices on the Road
One of the difficulties of travel in the modern world is that not all countries operate on the same type of electricity. You don’t want to have to buy a new charger, laptop, or phone every time you go to another country. That would simply be ridiculous. Instead, you probably realize that all you need [...]
Announcing the 2010 Ghacks Christmas Giveaway
The Ghacks Christmas Giveaway is a year’s end event where Ghacks readers from all over the world can enter a drawing to win commercial software licenses. The event will take place between December 1 and 24, so make sure you check back at least once a day for a chance to win a license for [...]
gHacks Editor on “Computer America” US Radio, Fri 19th Nov
Mike Halsey will be appearing on Craig Crossman’s Computer America radio show on Friday 19th November 2010. The show has been running for 19 years and is the #1 daily podcast in the US according to the New York Times. Mike will be talking about his new book “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” from Microsoft Press, [...]
Facebook Messages Launched, Facebook.com Emails For All Users
In a blog posting that just went live Facebook’s Joel Seligstein announced Facebook Messages a new service for users to stay in contact with each other. Information are scarce and there is not one screenshot of the interface. Still, here are the top features of Facebook Messages that we could gather from the article: Facebook [...]
Web Browsers Traces Eraser
When you surf the web you leave traces behind, both remotely but also locally. While you do not have options to remove traces remotely other than obfuscating them by using proxy servers, vpn connections or other methods of that kind, you do have more options to deal with traces on the local computer system. What [...]
Is Apple about to kill MP3?
It’s long been rumoured that Apple will launch a streaming music service to rival (erm… their rival) Spotify. Now the company is talking up “an exciting announcement from iTunes” tomorrow with the headline “Tomorrow is just another day, that you’ll never forget”. Nobody knows that the annoucement will be but the concensus on the web, [...]
MirrorCreator, Upload Local Or Remote Files To Multiple File Hosters
File hosts offer storage capacities on the Internet for users who do not have their own storage space, for instance by running a website, and for users who prefer to host files on free file hosts for distribution and bandwidth reasons. The majority of file hosting sites users tend to upload the file to one [...]
Bookmark Sentry For Chrome, Check For Dead And Duplicate Bookmarks
Every modern web browser offers to save bookmarks that act as a reminder and quick way to open websites. Internet users who save bookmarks regularly end up with hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of bookmarks. The major problem here is that bookmarks do not update automatically. What this means is that bookmarks become invalid if [...]