Windows users who have installed Internet Explorer 9 recently on one of the supported versions of Windows, may at one point decide to uninstall Internet Explorer 9 again. A common reason for uninstalling the browser at a later time is if it is acting up and troubleshooting the issue did not resolve it. Most Windows [...]
Alternate Firefox Ships With Bing, Big Deal?
One of the stories that dominated tech news yesterday was that Mozilla started shipping a version of the Firefox browser with Microsoft’s Bing search engine as the default search engine instead of Google Search. Some news sites made it look like as if Mozilla dropped Google as the browser’s search provider in favor of Microsoft’s [...]
Announcing the 4th Annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway
When I first started the Christmas Giveaway back in 2008 I did not really think that it would become an annual event, nor that other sites would pick up the idea and run their own giveaways at that time of the year. The Ghacks Christmas Giveaway is an event taking place from December 1 to [...]
Why Are 2 Plugin-Container.Exe Processes Running?
I recently discovered that I had two explorer.exe processes running. Odio posted a comment under that article where he mentioned that on his PC 2 plugin-container.exe processes were running instead. If you do not know anything about plugin-container.exe you can check out the informational article about it that I wrote in 2010. Plugin-container.exe basically is [...]
Why Are There Two Explorer.exe Processes Running?
I check the running processes on my Windows system regularly to find potentially malicious or unnecessary processes. When I looked at the process listing today I noticed that two explorer.exe processes were running. I remembered that this could be a sign of malicious software disguising itself as a system process. When I checked the process [...]
Apple Finally Patents the Bleedin’ Obvious!
Those of you who know me will know that I’m not a fan of the ongoing patent wars in which, rather than try and either beat competitors with innovation, outstanding product design and excellent quality customer service or, heaven forbid, realise that the market is actually big enough for everybody and live side by side [...]
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 Released
Microsoft yesterday has released Service Pack 3 for their Microsoft Office 2007 suite. The update applies to both Office 2007 as we as Microsoft Office Project, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, Microsoft Office Visio, and Visual Web Developer. The third service pack includes two main categories of fixes. The service pack includes all public updates, security [...]
Translate This For Firefox, Translate Web Pages
One of the features of the Google Chrome web browser that I really like is the option to translate foreign web pages automatically using Google’s Translate service. Firefox users can either use an Internet translation service manually or install an extension to add a similar functionality to the browser. One of the extensions is Translate [...]
Visa, MasterCard Plan to link Credit Card Purchases And Online Marketing
If you thought it could not get worse with all the tracking and personalization on the Internet, then you have just been proven wrong. According to The Wall Street Journal and other sources, both Visa and MasterCard are planning to tie credit card purchases with personalized online advertisement. What does it mean? You recently bought [...]