Live Sport for the Chrome browser is a sport fan’s dream come true. The Chrome extension lists direct links to sport broadcasts which can be viewed directly in the browser. That’s handy if your national TV is not broadcasting the match or event at all, if you are abroad and want to see your favorite [...]
SUPERAntiSypware Pro 5 Review, Giveaway
SUPERAntiSpyware Pro has been reviewed twice on Ghacks in the past two years as part of the annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. The recent acquisition of SUPERAntiSpyware by Support.com, and the release of version 5 of the software, justify a new review. In particular we wanted to know if the new parent company had any impact [...]
Microsoft Release OneNote for iPhone (Free for a Limited Time)
Microsoft have now released their popular note-taking app, OneNote for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. The program, which is part of their Office suite is popular with people wanting to make notes in meetings of who want to jot down thoughts on the go. While built-into the company’s own Windows Phone operating system, iOS is [...]
Submit URLs To Google Via Google Webmaster Tools
Creating a new website can be a very rewarding process. Webmasters usually run into a phase shortly after they have setup the site where they have to wait until the site gets indexed in the big search engines. This can take minutes, hours, days and sometimes even weeks, as it depends on the search engine [...]
Eagle Mode, Experimental File Manager, Viewer
The majority of file managers for the Windows operating system built up on the features that are offered by the system’s default file browser Windows Explorer. Eagle Mode is an experimental fie manager and viewer for Windows and Linux, that turns the concept upside down so to speak. The file manager offers a top down [...]
Fix Windows 7 Network Connection Stuck In Public Mode
Microsoft has just released a fix for a networking issue that Windows 7 users may experience. Windows 7 users, under specific circumstances, may be unable to click on the location associated with their network connection. The link that is usually clickable is not functional in this case. The issue is caused selecting the checkbox to [...]
Windows Skin Pack Installer System
While it is possible to create basic themes under Windows 7, which is in itself an improvement over previous versions of Windows in this regard, it is not possible to create advanced theme packs that easily. And with advanced I mean theme elements that require manipulation of system files. That in itself is problematic if [...]
Good news, IE users aren’t stupid after all
Last week we reported, somewhat sceptically I’m happy to say, about a piece of research by a company called AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting, that said that people who used Internet Explorer had lower IQs than people who used other browsers. The research “measuring the effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser” was apparently [...]
Firefox Appears To Handle Lots Of Tabs Better Than Chrome
Which web browser handles 150 open tabs better, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome? That’s what Gregor Wagner wanted to find out in a scalability test. The test setup was the following: Open the 150 most popular web sites in both web browsers and see which performs better memory and performance wise. Gregor automated the process [...]