Sometimes you may need to resize images, for instance before sending them to friends, family or colleagues per email, or uploading them to your website or server. Windows comes with options to resize images, but those are designed for individual images only. Multiple Image Resizer .NET offers to resize multiple images in one go. I [...]
Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox 2, Now With System Optimizer, Secure Erase
Solid State Drives (SSD) are different from conventional platter based hard drives in several key aspects. The drives do not need to be defragmented for instance. The operating system needs to be configured slightly different as well if the SSD is used as the primary hard drive. Most solid state drive manufacturers offer tools to [...]
Opera 11.01 Final Lands
Opera Software has just released Opera 11.01, an update to Opera 11 which adds security fixes and stability improvements to the popular web browser. The final version has been released after numerous snapshots and two release candidates. The changelogs list numerous fixes for bugs that caused crashes in the web browser, including installer fixes and [...]
Firefox Home Dash, Removes Interface, Adds Dashboard
It is a bit difficulty what the experimental Firefox extension Home Dash does, at least in one sentence. Home Dash basically removes the Firefox interface, and with interface I mean everything from the address bar to toolbars, menus and the status bar. Every visible element of the UI is gone after installation. It gets replaced [...]
Manage your VirtualBox VMs via the web with phpVirtualBox
Generally speaking, if it is a web-based tool that starts with “php” (such as phpMyAdmin or phpLDAPadmin) you know that tool is going to make your administrative life a lot easier. Such is the case with a php-based tool created to help you manage all of your VirutalBox VMs from a single tool, from anywhere [...]
gHacks Editor’s First Tech Book Becomes Top Seller
I got the news this morning but I had to seek all types of clarification today before I believed it was genuinely true. I’m delighted to announce that my first ever book published through a proper publisher (I’m not counting my own self-published Windows 7 book here) Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out from Microsoft Press, [...]
Facebook Improves Security With Secure Browsing, Social Authentication
Facebook today announced two changes to the popular social networking site that aim to improve the security of site visitors. Secure Browsing is a new opt-in option to configure Facebook to always use https connections. While Facebook is already making use of a secure connection when the user logs into the network, it is not [...]
Usenet Traffic Growth To Almost 9TB Per Day
Usenet traffic has increased from 5 Terabytes per day in January 2009 to almost 9 Terabytes of traffic per day two years later. The statistics have been collected by Giganews, one of the world’s largest Usenet providers. Especially the last six month have seen an incredible growth by almost 50% in daily traffic. This increase [...]
ImageFit, Scale Images Automatically In Firefox
The Firefox web browser scales images automatically to fit the current browsing window. Users who do not like the behavior can take a look at our guide How To Disable Dynamic Image Resizing In Firefox to disable the feature. There are however other possibilities where images may need to be resized. This is for instance [...]