File hosts offer storage capacities on the Internet for users who do not have their own storage space, for instance by running a website, and for users who prefer to host files on free file hosts for distribution and bandwidth reasons. The majority of file hosting sites users tend to upload the file to one [...]

The technology we use every day is move ever more relentlessly towards the cloud.  This isn’t a new concept, it’s been around since the birth of Hotmail and other similar webmail services. Now the European Union is funding research into cloud storage.  Engadget has reported that the “Vision Cloud” project will “explore the possibilities around [...]

I have been working with WordPress for the last six years and it has been a pleasant ride for most of the time. WordPress offers a lot, considering that it is free to use and I occasionally discover something new. This time it is how to save lots of server storage space in WordPress. WordPress, [...]

Back in 2008 I reviewed a small application to download music from Deezer, a popular free music streaming service at that time. The application used back then has not been updated since that day and is no longer working with the latest public version of Deezer. Reason enough to look a second time at the [...]

You have taken those beautiful photos on your last vacation, only to find out that some of them show objects on the screen that should not be there. Additional people for instance, a boot or car or something else that is destroying the atmosphere of the setting. Professionals use image editors to remove those objects [...]

Websites and services can use several techniques to identify a specific user visiting their properties, or third party properties they are affiliated with. Among the most common ones are standard HTML cookies, but also so called Flash cookies, also known as Local Shared Objects. Evercookie takes this a step further by dropping as many cookies [...]

I use the online virus scanning service VirusTotal on a regular basis, to check out files before I download them to my local computer system. Especially useful for programs that are hosted on file hosters. VirusTotal scans those files using dozens of antivirus engines, offering a far better assessment of possible dangers than a single [...]

It’s hard to believe that the web as we know it is still a teenager. No other teenager in all of history has had such a massive impact on life. Throughout world history, technology has fostered change in human society but never at such a rapid pace as the changes today. Like a person aging [...]

Hotmail just announced a new feature that allows every Internet user to sign up for Microsoft’s messaging service without creating a Hotmail email address. This was one of the features that users were requesting, and Microsoft decided to implement the feature so that users can use Hotmail features without having to create another (Hotmail) email [...]

Hulu, Pandora, ABC, CBS, NBC and hundreds of other sites in the United States limit their contents to viewers from the US. If you live outside, or happen to be overseas you won’t be able to access the contents of those sites. That’s bad if you are on a business trip in Europe and do [...]

Do people still code HTML by hand? Of course they do. And when they do, what tools do they use? Some use a simple text editor like nano or vi. Some prefer a little more GUI-goodness like Gedit or Kate. Still, some others prefer an application dedicated to the task at hand. For those Linux [...]

One of the very first articles on this site was about how to find files using Google. It is still possible to use specific advanced search parameters to find files you are looking for, including music, e-books, games and applications. There is a lot of stuff out there, and depending on the country you are [...]

For the last years I have been ignoring Digg as it turned from a powerful news source into a site ruled by power users, news by top sites and bad management. I used to find Digg valuable then to discover new websites that I did not know about before. Now, it is just the same [...]

The Windows Product Scout is a new addition to Microsoft’s Windows homepage. The free service offers product and software recommendations on a weekly basis. All item suggestions are fully compatible with Windows 7 and take advantage of the operating system’s feature set. For some, it looks like clever placed advertisement, and that is surely one [...]

Computer users may have a few reasons for downloading Windows 7 directly from the Internet. Among the top reasons are installations on computers without DVD drive, downloading the 64-bit edition if it is not supplied with the purchased version (only some Windows 7 editions, like the Professional edition, come with two discs to install 32-bit [...]

Regular readers of Ghacks know that browser plugins have become one of the biggest security risks for today’s Internet users. Keeping the plugins up to date is therefor essential to protect the system from exploits targeting known vulnerabilities. Among the plugins that are exploited the most are Adobe plugins, and Java. Recent findings in Microsoft’s [...]

Docs.com is an online document management, creation and publication tool that is closely tied to Microsoft and Facebook. Without going into to much detail, Facebook users can use the service to read, create or edit their Word, PowerPoint or Excel documents. Close ties to Facebook make it possible to share documents with Facebook friends, and [...]

Favicons are small icons that help identify websites. They are used as a visual representation of a website both in the web browser and at many online services. The three most prominent locations of favicons are the browser’s address bar, the tabbar and the bookmarks folder. Many webmasters like to create custom favicons to add [...]

As a web developer, you have to make sure that your website displays fine for the most widely used screen resolutions. Doing so ensures that site visitors have a good user experience on the website. We have already covered several programs, like the Computer Monitor Hotkey Resolution Changer or the Resolution Changer, to change the [...]

It is sometimes hard to keep up with all the change that is going on. Youtube recently introduced a subscriber limit for their users, in order to fight sub4sub spam. As you may know, it is possible to subscribe to users or channels on Youtube to receive information about new videos that they have uploaded [...]

Evan Williams, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter is to stand down as Chief Executive Officer of the company to move into a role that will allow him to help make Twitter more profitable, according to a report by the BBC. Announcing the news, understandably in a Tweet, he said Twitter had to “meet [...]

Rapidshare has been pressured from several angles in the past years. Law enforcement agencies that called for the shutdown of the service, or better controlling and filtering of uploaded files, rival file hosting sites that gained lots of ground due to attractive and more powerful disk space and traffic limits, and users who were fed [...]

A rough time lies ahead of the 30 million or so Windows Live Spaces customer who operate their own web blog at the Microsoft owned service. Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta revealed that Microsoft teamed up with Automattic, the parent company of the popular blogging platform WordPress, to migrate Live Spaces users to WordPress. At the moment, [...]

The computer keyboard is the core input device on most modern computer systems. People use it for all writing purposes on the computer, from writing documents and emails to chatting with friends in chat rooms and updating the status at popular social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter. Oh, and some use it to [...]

A new European project, kick-started by 22 European companies and organisations aims to develop an application development environment that will work across all platforms by providing a web-based approach, according to the BBC. The move which is backed by €10M in funding, aims to create apps that would work on any device from Internet TVs to [...]

There are reasons why you would want to view a web site off line. Say, for example, you know you are on the go and do not always have access to a network connection, yet you want to be up to date on the latest news. Or you are a developer working on a site [...]

Fast, faster, instant. It seems that speed is a popular factor nowadays. Youtube Instant is a new third party example how speed can change a service. The developer, Feross, inspired by Google Instant has created a Youtube pendant, sort of. The basic service displays the search and video on the same page. Videos begin to [...]

UK-based ISP TalkTalk, owned by the Carphone warehouse (Phone Warehouse in the EU) has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to disclose enough information about a malware system it was launching, according to the BBC. The controversial system collected the URLs of websites visited by its customers and the ISP failed to [...]

A Twitter newspaper? How can that work considering that Twitter limits the number of characters to 140? That were my questions when I first heard about Paper.li, a web service that offers to create said newspapers for users of its website. Users who want to create their own newspapers need a free account, that they [...]

Have you ever seen a logo or been to a website and wondered, “That’s a nice font, I wonder what one it is they’re using?”  Well you need to wonder no more.  What the Font is a service to help you find out just that. It’s a simple service to use too with two ways [...]

A lot of file sharing services end their services on the Internet after operating for a while. This can usually be attributed to a disparity between server and bandwidth bills and revenue. That’s a big problem not only for Internet users but also for webmasters who tend to report on the better ones on a [...]

Last year Youtube started to expand their offerings of user uploaded video clips to include shows and movies. The offer back then was limited, especially movie wise. Today Youtube announced the availability of Youtube movies, a free movies category on the video hosting site that currently offers 400 free full-length movies. Youtube Movies sports hundreds [...]

It’s not been a good time in recent months for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange after the publication of a series of secret documents about the war in Afghanistan that’s had the Pentagon up in arms.  Now Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant on accusations of rape and molestation.

If you are working in IT, or with computers throughout the day, you know that it is important to take regular breaks, to relax the eyes and move the body a bit to relax the muscles as well. But breaks sometimes are to small to move around, which means that many computer workers spend some [...]

The BBC is reporting that talks in the US, intended to find a way to make sure all data on the Internet is treated equally have stalled. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) began the talks on net neutrality after Google and Verizon said they wanted to see faster access speeds for websites that paid extra [...]

The right archiving software may sometimes be out of reach to unpack an archive. This can be the case when using a public computer in an Internet Cafe or library for instance. Users who need to extract an archive but cannot do so locally can resort to online services to do so. WobZip is one [...]

Companies have three options to track desktop users on the Internet, cookies, Flash cookies and network related activities. All three can be used by third parties to track an Internet user’s movement on the Internet, to record interests and activities. Most tracking companies sell those information to advertisers who in return display relevant advertisement to [...]

Have you ever opened multiple Youtube videos at the same time? The cacophony of sounds has probably been unbearable. Youtube videos start to play automatically, and there does not seem to be a restriction in the number of videos that can play at the same time. A user opening four videos simultaneously will make the [...]

Nothing’s more refreshing than receiving a notification of a WordPress update the minuted before going to bed. WordPress updates are serious, most of the time. Not updating the blog immediately could leave it open for exploits, and malicious users could do many bad things with that new found power. WordPress 3.01 has been released a [...]

The popular video hosting site Youtube has been offering limited beta HTML5 viewing capabilities for some time now on their website. HTML5 video playback was limited to Google Chrome and Safari, and only directly available on Youtube after joining the beta channel. Webmasters and Internet users who wanted to embed videos on third party websites [...]

The WordPress blogging service bloggetry, which is used by roughly 70,000 people, has been mysteriously shut down  with no warning and no explanation according to ReadWriteWeb.  BurstNET, the host of the service said it was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency. “(Blogetery) was terminated by request of law enforcement officials, due [...]

Site speed has been added as a ranking factor by Google some time ago. Webmasters since then have started optimizing their websites’ page loading times. Some of the optimizations done included reducing the number of elements loaded when people visit the site, optimizing media elements, minifying CSS and JavaScript, and using web caching technologies to [...]

If you are chatting or hanging out on sites like Facebook or MySpace regularly you are often inclined to spice up your messages. Many users make use of so called emoticons like :) to express feelings or their state of mind, some on the other hand would like something special, and that’s where special characters [...]

You sometimes may need to send large files to friends, colleagues or other people on the Internet. Think about photos of the last party that you want to share with someone, or a new music album, video, document or application. Email is the obvious choice for many, mainly because everyone has an email client (be [...]

Youtube is raising the bar once again with the announcement that the video hosting site will support 4K videos in the near future. Less than a year ago Youtube enabled full HD, 1080p, video resolutions on Youtube and most people thought that 1080p was going to be the top resolution on Youtube for a long [...]

Back in 2005 when I started this site I had it hosted at Godaddy along with the domain. That was a comfortable thing to do as I only had to deal with one company for all my domain and web hosting needs and requests. That back then did not turn out as well as well. [...]

If you head over to The Times website right now you will see a site that looks like many of the other newspaper websites on the Internet. But clicking on any link on the page yields a surprising result, at least for visitors who have not read about the paywall plans before. A screen overlay [...]

Users of the free DNS service OpenDNS are already familiar with additional blocking options that an OpenDNS account offers. It is for instance possible to configure web filters to block contents such as adult themes, pornography, proxies and anonymizers or gambling. The web filter is fully customizable to block only the selected contents in the [...]

The Internet Fraud Alert System is a partnership between Microsoft and the US National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) backed up by organizations and companies like Accuity, American Bankers Association, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, eBay and PayPal. The system addresses a problem that security researchers and companies have faced in the past. Security researchers [...]

The popular video hosting site Youtube offers publishers the option to limit their videos to users from specific countries. Some BBC content is for instance only available for users from the UK while companies like Warner Music Group often restrict their music videos to visitors from the United States. The messages that users receive when [...]