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What’s uTorrent Plus?

If you have been to the uTorrent website these days you may have noticed an advertisement for uTorrent Plus placed prominently on the site. But even if you have not visited the main site recently, you may have spotted the uTorrent Plus application in the client itself. So what’s uTorrent Plus, and how does it [...]

Author: , Saturday December 3, 2011
Categories: P2p

City Siege 3 Jungle Siege [Game Saturday]

City Siege 3, Jungle Siege, is the third installment in the popular City Siege series. The game is a Flash based game that gives you command of up to five soldiers to complete missions. The game itself is a side scrolling action game, a mixture of Cannon Fodder (tiny men, guns, kill all enemies) with [...]

Author: , Saturday December 3, 2011
Categories: Entertainment, Games

Panda Antivirus Pro 2012 Review

The security software market is flooded with products. Consumers not only have to cope with dozens of companies, but also with multiple products offered by the same company. The majority of companies offer two or three different security programs that are updated every year. With different security products available, consumers face the problem that they [...]

Author: , Saturday December 3, 2011
Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Hard Drive Temperature Thresholds, What You Need To Know

Hard drives, like other electronic devices, have temperature thresholds that they need to run in. Manufacturers like Western Digital or Seagate inform their customers about those thresholds. But how can the customers make sure that the temperature does not jump over those limits? And what are the possible consequences if a drive operates outside of [...]

Author: , Friday December 2, 2011
Categories: Tutorials Basic

Transfer Video To DVD With DeVeDe

We have covered the video DVD creation software DVD twice here at Ghacks. First a review of the Windows version (see Video To DVD) in 2008, and then of the Linux version (see Create DVDs in Linux with DeVeDe, mkisofs, and K3B in 2009). The Open Source software has been in continuous development, especially the [...]

Author: , Friday December 2, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

Close Tabs Efficiently In Firefox

Sometimes it is little things that can make a big difference. When it comes to closing tabs in the Firefox web browser, users have options to close the tab with a click on the x icon that is either displayed on the right of the tab or at the end of the tabbar. They can [...]

Author: , Friday December 2, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

How To Add Search Engines To Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer gives you options to select a default search engine, also called search provider, during the initial setup on first start. You find a list of search providers that are currently installed in the browser under Manage Add-ons. Please note that this guide uses Internet Explorer 9 to walk you through the steps of [...]

Author: , Friday December 2, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Search Engines

Dropbox File Synchronization and Online Storage Review

Cloud hosting, or online hosting in general, is not a new technology. Your emails hosted on your email provider’s server are as much cloud hosting as storing website files on content distribution networks or important documents with the help of a provider like Dropbox. When you look at the services that Dropbox offers, you will [...]

Author: , Friday December 2, 2011
Categories: The Web

Modify Facebook To Your Liking With Social Fixer

Most Facebook users probably have one or two page elements or features that annoy the hell out of them. This can be a small recent change like the top posts feature that promotes some posts and modifies the timeline by doing so, or something bigger like the new photo viewer interface or the highly annoying [...]

Author: , Thursday December 1, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera

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