If you are on the Firefox stable channel, which most users certainly are, you are currently working with version 7 of the browser. The next update for the web browser is said to go life on the Mozilla website on November 8. As always, Firefox releases are available early on Mozilla ftp servers where they [...]
Stealth Bastard, Free 2D-Stealth PC Game
Game Saturday was yesterday, why on earth are you reviewing another game today? Because it is bloody awesome. Stealth Bastard is a free 2D-stealth game for the PC. It combines elements of the classic Impossible Mission game with stealth elements of games such as Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid. When you look at the [...]
Ghacks October 2011 Best Of
Another month has passed rather quickly. Below you find a personal selection of articles, reviews and tutorials that have been published on Ghacks Technology News in October 2011. We had some announcements of our own to share in October. Ghacks turned six in the month, and in that time span we have been published more [...]
How To Restore Firefox Bookmarks
One of the things that I migrate to new computer systems that I build or but are my bookmarks. I have a collection of a few hundred sites in my bookmarks that I use regularly thanks to browsers recommending bookmarks when entering text into the address bar. A corrupt or accidentally deleted bookmarks file could [...]
SSDLife Free, Show Life Expectancy Of Solid State Drives
Solid State Drives are slowly becoming the new mainstream storage devices. It may still take a few years before they replace platter based hard drives but it will happen eventually. Currently both price and storage volume are not competitive, but this will change in the future. PC users who followed SSDs from the very beginning [...]
Mozilla Profile Manager Final Released
You may already know about Mozilla’s plan to retire the built-in Firefox profile manager to replace it with an external program called the Profile Manager. This new program, available for all supported operating systems that Firefox runs on is not only compatible with the web browser but also with other XULRunner-based applications like Mozilla Thunderbird [...]
Waterfalls 3 [Game Saturday]
Looking for a relaxing fun puzzle game for the weekend? Than the Flash game Waterfalls 3 may be exactly what you are looking for. It is the player’s task to redirect color streams to fill all the white circles on the map with those colors. The game begins easy with one or two color streams [...]
Using Free File Unlocker to Release OS-Locked Files and Folders
The Windows operating system automatically locks files and folders that are being used by an application or any native Windows service. Stopping services or closing the applications that are locking the file or folder is not always an option. The familiar message, “Cannot delete file: It is being used by another program” can be an [...]
NetSurveyor, Network Discovery Software
One of the things that you may want to consider when setting up a wireless network connection or troubleshooting an existing one is the vicinity of other wireless signals in the area. Why? Because you may want to make sure you get the best possible network quality. It is for instance advised to select wireless [...]