I have to admit that I’m not making full use of Windows 7′s library feature. Libraries are basically used to consolidate, or virtually merge, directories. The operating system ships with libraries for photos, music, documents and videos. Windows 7 users can add folders to existing libraries, so that their contents are displayed in the selected [...]
Log USB Drive Connections In Windows With USBLogView
Can you find out if someone else has been on your PC, has connected an external USB drive to it, and copied data from it to the drive? Tools like USBDeview tell you which USB devices have been connected in the past. The program even tells you when a device has been connected to a [...]
Windows Store Details Announced
Microsoft’s next operating system Windows 8 will have an app store. That’s what every tech savvy Windows user knows. Microsoft’s own Antoine Leblond and Ted Dworkin have now started a small series of posts about the Windows Store over at the Building Windows 8 blog. Much of what’s being said in the first post is [...]
Display Open Tab Count in Firefox
It is sometimes the little things that can make a big difference in day to day activities on a computer. The open tabs count of Firefox has gone up significantly on my computer system in recent times as I’m currently going through all 20k tags here on Ghacks to consolidate them. Firefox by default only [...]
Wordweb Pro Review
The Internet has made it a lot easier for computer users to look up words, definitions, translations and encyclopedias. But even if you use the Internet for these things, you may run into usability issues or sites that display one kind of information but lack others that you are also interested in. WordWeb Pro is [...]
Android Store hits 10 Billion Downloads
Google’s Android store has had it’s 10 billionth download this week, and the news was announced on the Google blog. To mark the milestone the company has also announced that for the next 10 days it would cut the price of some of the top apps to just 10 cents each. The growth in apps, [...]
Everest Home Edition, System Information Software
This fascinating freeware is a system information and diagnostic application that gives you an interface that the Windows Control Panel just can’t offer. All of the information Everest provides is something you could find on your own, it would just take much longer. Even low-level hardware information is displayed in detail. The interface is friendly [...]
Facebook bug can make your private photos public
Nothing is ever 100% completely secure, let’s get this settled from the off. Whatever security anybody or any company ever puts in place there’s either some way to crack it, or some flaw in the system that will allow people to circumvent it. Thus it’s not really a shouting a Facebook moment to discover that [...]
Generate File Hashes Directly In Firefox
Comparing file hashes of files that you have downloaded to your computer with those provided by the provider of said downloads can be a great way of verifying that a file is genuine and that it has not been tampered with by third parties. Security only works if the sources you get the files and [...]