Most users who want to see weather reports on their operating system use gadgets to do so. Windows 7 ships with a weather gadget that can display the weather conditions in a specific place or location. Gadgets on the other hand have the disadvantage that windows can block their view. If you want to look [...]
ManicTime, Keep Track of PC Activities
If you’d have to analyze a normal work day on your computer, how would it look like? What are the common applications that you open? Which website do you spend the most time on? It can be quite difficulty to calculate those numbers manually, and it is likely that you may be way off. That’s [...]
Ghacks August 2011 Best Of
August of 2011 has been an exciting month here at Ghacks. It is usually pretty quite here in the summer months, but not this time. Microsoft started their Building Windows 8 blog where they revealed new features of the Windows 8 operating system. This includes improved file management features, a controversial ribbon interface for Windows [...]
How to Automate the Disk Checking Utility in Windows 7
Windows allows you to check your hard drive for errors so that these errors can be repaired. This is called the chkdsk.exe or Check Disk utility. This is a task that can be easily automated with Task Scheduler. This does require rebooting to complete, so it is probably ideal to simply trigger the disk checking [...]
How To Install Google Chrome For Multiple User Accounts
The default, or shall I say more prominent, installer for the Google Chrome web browser offers only single user account installations only. More precisely, it can only be installed for the user account that is currently logged into the operating system. That’s not a problem for single user systems, but if you maintain computers with [...]
Dell Precision M6600 Workstation Laptop Review
Laptops come in all shapes and sizes these days from tiny netbooks to sexy ultraportables and everyday value machines. Then however there are the workstations. These laptops are designed with the needs of CAD designers, video production and engineering and geology projects in mind. They pack the very finest and the best of everything and come [...]
MultiObfuscator, Advanced Cryptography Software
Sometimes you may want to protect some files or maybe even just one document from third party access. While you could use an encryption software like TrueCrypt to create a container to put those files into, you sometimes may prefer an easier solution. MultiObfuscator is a free program for Windows that uses multiple security layers [...]
Quick Access Bar, Get Fast Access To Folders In Windows
Quick Access Bar is a lightweight program for Windows that adds a toolbar with folder links to the top of the Windows desktop. The toolbar is displayed all the time by default, with options to auto-hide it in the program options. You first need to configure the folders and entries that you want to have [...]
The Last Stand – Union City [Game Saturday]
The Last Stand series is all about survival after a Zombie apocalypse. Previous games were stationary games where you had to defend a location against attacking zombie hordes. It featured some role playing elements, like searching for food, finding better weapons and other survivors to help out in the defending at night. The last game [...]