Another month has passed and it is time for a new best of guide to last month’s articles here on Ghacks. April was the month that the popular technology news site Download Squad was shut down by AOL, along with dozens of other web blogs owned by the company. It was also the month that Delicious was sold by Yahoo, Google announced to close down Google Video and a huge amount of Windows 8 information appeared on the web thanks to two leaked copies of the operating system.
Ashampoo and Sony were hacked in April, and Google Chrome became the first browser to integrate the cleaning of Flash cookies.
It was also the month where I started to write the Discovering Opera series to review core Opera browser features, and re-introduced Game Saturday.
I have reviewed a new batch of Firefox add-ons and tips and Mike visited Microsoft’s UK Headquarters.
Firefox 4.0.1, Thunderbird 3.1.10, Opera 11.10 and Google Chrome 11 Stable were released this month, as well as updates to Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader which once again were plagued by 0-day vulnerabilities.
Hardware
Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 1: The Assessment
Logitech Illuminated Keyboards Review
Toshiba Self-Encrypting Hard Drives With Host Authorization
Security, Privacy
Encrypt Your Windows Pagefile To Improve Security
Have You Read the Fine Print for the Amazon Cloud Drive?
Lastpass Security Challenge , Test Your Last Pass Passwords
Microsoft April 2011 Patch Day Overview
Microsoft Safety Scanner, Free On-Demand Virus Scanner
Storing Data In The Cloud With Dropbox And TrueCrypt
What To Do When Your Email Account is Compromised
Social Networking
A Brief Guide on Privacy Settings for Facebook
How To Hide From Friends On Facebook Chat
Manage Third Party Access To Google, Twitter, Facebook And Dropbox
Tips, Tricks, Guides
Download Free Music Legally, An Updated Guide
How To Send An Executable File Via Gmail
How To Search Multiple PDF Documents At Once
Thunderbird Send Later, Schedule Emails
The Web
Google Mail, How To Fix Gmail Attachment Failed Errors
Office 365 Public Beta Begins, Sign-Up Now
Web Browser
Chrome Gets Per-Site Permissions to Run Quicktime, Java Plugins
How To Delete Cookies On A Computer
How To Switch Firefox Update Channels
Internet Explorer 10 Will Not Support Vista, XP
Mozilla Development Specifics Updated, Firefox 5 and 6 Release Dates
Windows
AVG LiveKive Online Backup Service Launches
How To Update Hardware Drivers In Windows
Martview, Best Ebook Reader For PDF E-Books
Streamwriter, Record Internet Radio Stations
You can access all of April’s articles by following this link. Hope you enjoyed the summary, if you have suggestions on how to improve this summary let me know in the comments.
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Another month of fascinating, useful and well-reported stuff. Thanks Martin.
Thank you Martin!