Yesterday I published part one of my hands on review with Windows Phone 7, and this isn’t like the early hands on where people played with one at a Microsoft event, I got the Redmond giant to send me a phone so I could give you all a real understanding of the OS and what [...]
Microsoft Security Advisory For Internet Explorer, Fix Inside
Vulnerabilities have moved into the focus of many Internet users. This time it is a new 0-day vulnerability for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that could allow remote code execution on the target system. The critical vulnerability affects all versions of the browser from Internet Explorer 6 to 8, but mitigating factors exist that protect the system [...]
CopyTo Synchronizer, Synchronize And Backup Software
CopyTo Synchronizer, a once commercial software has been released as a freeware a few days ago. The free software offers an impressive set of options to back up and synchronize data. It can for instance be used to create jobs (called projects in the program) to synchronize date between multiple computers like a home and [...]
Dealing with bash history
If you are a Linux user who frequents the command line, you will most likely have heard of the bash history. This is a special system that keeps a history of all commands run from bash. This has many pros and only a few cons. One of the cons is that, if you are logged [...]
Recent History For Chrome Offers Fast Access To Visited Websites
The history stores information about previously visited websites. Every web browser offers this feature, and the major difference is the way it can be accessed. Firefox users for instance can display the history in a sidebar. Chrome users by default on the other hand are limited to displaying visited websites in a new tab, which [...]
Split Text Files With Simple Text Splitter
Many stories here at Ghacks are based on my personal endeavors in the computing world. I was just recently trying to find a program to split a text file into multiple smaller files. Why? Because the program that I tried to load the data into had a limit of two thousand lines, adding larger text [...]
The gHacks Windows Phone 7 Review, Part 1
At gHacks we’ll always bring you the best and latest news so I’ve secured a review unit from Microsoft of a new Windows Phone and will be bringing you a complete in depth review of Microsoft’s new smartphone operating system over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be writing the full reviews at our sister site, www.Windows7News.com and [...]
Mozilla Labs Lab Kit
Google Chrome users have an option to enable experimental browsing features for some time now. Previously all they had to do was enter about:labs into the Chrome address bar to open the page with the available experimental features. The Chrome devs have changed the page to about:flags now, essentially leaving everything else as is. Firefox [...]
Mouse Speed Switcher, Configure Speed Settings Per Mouse
The mouse speed settings configured in Windows apply to every mouse connected to the computer system. A laptop’s touchpad for instance has the same speed settings as a mouse that gets connected to the laptop occasionally. While many computer users do not mind, some may prefer to configure the speed per mouse to improve their [...]