When you reinstall the Windows operating system you may need to reinstall other software like Microsoft Office as well. It may then be necessary to activate the software again which may not be a big problem in most cases, but might be one if the computer Office was reinstalled on has no permanent Internet connection. [...]
Reddit Enhancement Suite, Get More Out Of Reddit
With the fall of the once popular Digg social voting site came the rise of better alternatives like Reddit. If you look at Digg today you will notice that the site took a big dive in recent years. From thousands of so called diggs (that is votes) for popular stories to one or two hundred [...]
A Closer Look at the Lightning Calendar Add-On For Thunderbird
One of the main points of criticism in regards to the email client Thunderbird was the missing calendar. While it was possible to install an early version of Lightning in previous versions of the email program, it was not really on-pair with the calendar in Outlook or Google Calendar. With the release of Thunderbird 8 [...]
Microsoft Patch Day November 2011 Overview
Today Microsoft has released security updates exclusively for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Of the four bulletins released today, one has received the maximum severity rating of critical while the other three have received one of important. Maximum severity means that at least one Microsoft operating system has received the critical vulnerability rating. In this case, [...]
Mourao Image Grabber, Mass Image Host Downloader
My program of choice to download lots of images from image hosts like Imagebam is Bulk Image Downloader, an excellent program to download images from hundreds of image hosting sites. Windows users looking for a free alternative could take a closer look at Mourao Image Grabber which offers the same basic functionality. The program can [...]
Email Client Mozilla Thunderbird 8 Released
Ghacks veterans know that Mozilla has synced the release schedules of the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. Whenever a new stable version of Firefox gets released, a new version of Thunderbird is just around the corner. Both Firefox and Thunderbird have not really shown to many exciting new features ever since the [...]
Show Anchors, In-Page Linking
Sometimes when you are reading a page full of contents you may come upon a passage or element that you want to bookmark for later use or sharing with other users. While you could send the page url to someone or bookmark it, you would need to explain or remember where that element or content [...]
Opera’s Latest 11.60 Builds Shows Mail Improvements
The Opera web browser is the only popular web browser – and with that I mean market share wise – that ships with its own built-in email client. While I have not used Opera Mail in a long while thanks to the excellent desktop mail software Thunderbird, I have always followed the news closely. Opera [...]
Google+ Pages Announced, Ghacks Has Its Own, Help Promote, Please
Social media signals have become more important in recent years for websites. Search engines use the noise created on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+ in their algorithms. I’m not really a fan of fan pages and all that kind of stuff that goes along with it. The core reason here is [...]