Say you have a desktop PC with a wired connection to the Internet. Your router only supports wired connections for that matter, which is the main reason for that. You do have a mobile computer as well, for instance a laptop, tablet PC or smartphone that supports WiFi. You want to use WiFi when at [...]
Monitor Your Children’s Internet Usage With Qustodio
One of the things that parents need to consider when configuring parental controls and monitoring applications for their children on computer systems is how easy it is to bypass those mechanisms that are designed to protect the underage computer users. Qustodio is a free parental control and Internet monitoring application for the Windows operating system. [...]
Opera 12 Alpha
Just a day after posting the first look at Opera 12 on Ghacks the Opera team decided to release the alpha version of the browser publicly. The review the other day was based on the latest snapshot release, and while changes between that latest snapshot of Opera and the alpha are scarce it justifies a [...]
Google+ Rolls Out Hashtag and Real-time Search Support
It has been a while since I last mentioned Google+ here on Ghacks. Mike published a story yesterday about a Google employee who accidentally posted a rant about the Google+ product online, and the day before about a third party analysis that came to the conclusion that traffic was dropping on the social networking site. [...]
Apacer AC430 External Hard Drive
A few years back, buying an external hard drive meant buying an overpriced, loud, clunky housing, and then having to spring for a hard drive separately. It was, essentially, a pain. Even carrying it around was an annoyance, to some degree. These days, things have changed. Now the purchase of an external hard drive is [...]
Find Out Your Microsoft’s Product Support Lifecycle
One of the aspects of buying a specific product online or offline is that product’s support lifecycle. The support lifecycle in plain terms refers to the time the developer or manufacturer of the product supports it with updates and staff to help users in support related tasks. It is on the other hand not as [...]
Google Engineer says Google+ is a “pathetic afterthought”
Google Software engineer Steve Yegge accidentally broadcast a 4,500 word rant about the company and described their latest social networking exercise as a “pathetic afterthought” and a “knee-jerk reaction” according to ZDNet’s Ed Bott. In the rant he talked about the failings at the company and then accidentally broadcast it to the world. Google+ is [...]
Never Miss Your Favorite TV Show Again With Remember To Watch
Back in the 80s life was not easy for people enjoying a good television show. If you missed a show it meant that you either had to be lucky to watch rerun before the next episode or to know someone who taped the show on VHS. If you were unlucky you missed the show with [...]
Google Hotel Finder, Google Maps Mashup
It feels rather strange that Google decided to retire the Google Labs section of their site which often showcased new Google services and features that at least sometimes were turned into full blown products at a later time. Strange because the end of Google Labs was not the end of Google experiments. One of the [...]