I know I’m a day early with the guide to last month’s best articles. Every month I’m looking back at the articles that we have published here on Ghacks; I evaluate them, check some stats and post the most popular articles and a personal selection in a best of overview. I usually post the overview on the first Sunday of the next month, today is an exception.
March 2011 was a month with several exciting releases. It was the month of the web browser, that saw releases of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4, Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mini 6, and Google Chrome 12.
March was also the month were several Gmail users lost all of their inbox (later recovered), Amazon introduced its new controversial Cloud Drive service and Yahoo Search Direct.
Web browser related articles and guides have seen a surge this month thanks to the releases of new versions. This will go down a bit in coming months.
Backup:
The news that Google lost emails from some users and a personal request made me write the two backup related articles. For True Crypt, it is important to have a backup at hand in case of hard disk failures or header corruption.
How To Backup True Crypt Data To Be Prepared For Emergencies
The Gmail incident has shown that you should backup your emails that are stored exclusively online to be prepared for the worst case scenario.
Use MailStore To Backup Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Emails
Browsing:
Several guides and articles concentrated on the launches of Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9. Some address issues that users experience after upgrading to the new browser.
6 Tips To Get You Started With Firefox 4
Configure Firefox To Delete All Cookies On Exit But Select Ones
Firefox 4 URL Trimming, Display Full Web Addresses
Firefox Download Guide, How To Download The Web Browser
How To Add Missing HTML5 Video Support To Your Browser
How To Upgrade, Downgrade Google Chrome
Improve Firefox’s Image Viewer With Image Tools
Internet Explorer 9 Launch, All The Information You Need
Resetting Firefox, How To Start Fresh With Firefox 4
Opera Hardware Acceleration Demo Is Blazingly Fast
Play Flash Games Lag Free In Fullscreen In Google Chrome
Web Browser Benchmark Results Comparison
Why You Should Install Internet Explorer 9
Downloading:
How To Download Facebook Videos
Email:
How To Block Spam With A Secondary Email Account
Linux:
What will the new GNOME desktops mean for other Linux desktops?
Misc:
Giganews 1000-Days Retention Giveaway
How To Fill Out PDF Forms On Your Computer
How To Find Free Music On iTunes
Search:
Both Google and Yahoo have made changes to their search engines in March. Google introduced search results blocking and their +1 button feature that mimics Facebook Like.
Remove Google Properties From Search With A Comma
The ultimate tech search engine is a custom Google search engine that only searches the most popular tech sites, and nothing else. It is great for tech searches.
The Ultimate Tech Search Engine
Troubleshooting:
Several basic guides where posted in the troubleshooting section last month. These articles can be very helpful in certain situations.
How To Change A Windows Account Name And User Profile Folder Name
How To Create, Use A Windows Password Reset Disk
How To Edit, Reset The Windows Hosts File
How To Flush The DNS Cache In Windows
How To Remove Services In Windows
Taking the Pain Out of Reinstalling Windows
Updates:
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Security Updates
Firefox 4 Download Available, Release Tomorrow
Microsoft March 2011 Patch Day Overview
Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 Mobile Browsers Released
Windows:
There were not many new software releases this month. The two programs that impressed be the most in March are the Kanji Sketch Pad and the media player UMPlayer.
Clipboard Master, Windows Clipboard Manager
Dropbox Portable AHK, Run Dropbox Without Installation
Kanji Sketch Pad, Learn To Draw Kanji
New To Windows 7? Do This First!
Sort Your Music with Mp3 Folder Structure Maker
UMPlayer, Mplayer Fork With Interesting Features
Have anything to add? Let me know in the comments.
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Hi Martin, You are forgetting to add Computer Customizer and Companel in the list.
Thanks
Paras Sidhu
downloadinformer.blogspot.com
I vote for firefox download guide
nice post
I love your articles, tips and tutorial..
thanks for your help.. Martin “gHacks.net”