Sometimes you may feel the need to create a screenshot or multiple screenshots of a website. This can be handy for archiving or reference purposes for instance. While you could create a screenshot easily with tools offered by the operating system, doing so usually involves several steps and is therefor more time consuming than using [...]
Websites Cop, Monitor And Auto-Repair Web Properties
One of the things that webmasters need to ensure is that third parties are not modifying code on one of their websites. Attacks that make this possible include code injection or brute force attacks to retrieve the ftp or database password of a website. The free software Websites Cop can monitor contents hosted on one [...]
Google Redirects Your Search To Https? Change It!
Logged in Google users who do not follow the news as closely as the majority of Ghacks visitors may have noticed that Google started to redirect their searches on google.com from http to https automatically. While that is certainly not a issue on most systems, it could lead to issues on some. If you are [...]
Are Biometrics the most Important Portable Feature?
As we carry more devices around with us, smartphones, tablets, netbooks, ultraportables, than ever before and now I’m wrondering if biometrics are fast becoming the must-have addition for mobile computing in the 21st century. I have a variety of mobile devices myself and have tested a great many more in the last year. Of these, [...]
YouTube Link Title, Play Linked YouTube Videos Directly
YouTube videos can be posted as links or as embedded media contents on websites. It depends largely on the technology powering the website if it is possible to embed videos directly. If you look at sites like Facebook or Google Plus for instance, you will notice that they convert YouTube links directly to embedded videos. [...]
Using LiLi to create a Bootable, Portable and Virtualized USB Drive
LinuxLive USB Creator, or “LiLi”, is a quick way to create Live Linux USB drives that are persistent virtualized drives. Typically, Linux USB drives require rebooting to install software. It is possible to create a Linux USB drive that will install without a reboot. This is where LiLi comes into play. By setting drive persistence [...]
Dormancy, Unload Firefox Tabs To Free RAM
The Firefox web browser is still perceived by many as a RAM eater and a program that pushes RAM usage on many configurations to the limit. When you analyze that you may come to a different conclusion though. Lifehacker recently ran some – limited and non scientific – tests with the result that Chrome and [...]
Add Free Music To Google Music With Magnifier
Google in an effort to make their online music service Google Music more popular has created a website called Magnifier (more precisely a blog) which promotes the service by giving away music for free. Visitors need to have a Google Music account to benefit from Magnifier, and since it is currently limited to select countries [...]
Windows 8 Service Configurations
With every new Microsoft operating system, regardless of it being a client or server OS, come new and modified services. System administrators as well as end users who are interested in optimizing their PC and knowing what’s running in the background need to spend time to analyze the changes. One of the best Windows Service [...]