If you are one of those users who use the two-finger typing technique you might want to invest some time in a typing course to improve your words per minute count. Several free computer typing courses are available on the Internet. One of them is Typing Web’s Online Typing Tutor which can be accessed by [...]

Acrobat.com Presentations is a new Adobe online service that allows users to create presentations online. The service was build with Flash which is the only other requirement next to an Adobe account. The main focus of Presentations is work collaboration as it makes it possible to work with multiple contributors on the same presentation. The [...]

TechCrunch ran a story back in February were they claimed that Last.fm data was handed over to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The data dump in question was being analyzed to find information about unreleased music tracks that have been played by users. They received lots of fire for that article from Last.fm [...]

TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, started out in 1984 and has since then widened the focus even further and is today seen as a global community of thinkers and visionaries that try to get a deeper understanding of the world. TED Talks was introduced to provide access to some of the talks [...]

It has been a while since we last covered applications or services to watch TV over the Internet. One of the popular applications at that time was the TVU Player which back then offered channels like ESPN or ABC. This has changed a bit since then and the main reason for many users to use [...]

Mozilla Prism 1.0 Beta has been released yesterday. The developers at Mozilla Labs have raised the version of Mozilla Prism to 1.0 beta. The launch was celebrated with a shiny new website. Mozilla Prism can be used to move web applications to the computer desktop. It basically displays a selected web service like any other [...]

Researching products and services before buying them is one of the most important steps in the process. The Internet contains information about virtually any new product and it is possible to form a strong opinion based on user and website reviews. Inexperienced users on the other hand might feel lost or even intimidated by the [...]

I absolutely love all kinds of icons, and not long ago I found a very quick way to make my own simple Adobe-Suite-like icons. All you need is Adobe Air, and an app called Air Icon Generator. The app is from the same people who gave us Bookmarked Generator, and works with the same style, [...]

We have started Appnews, a software update service, about a week ago and Rarst was so nice to compile a few stats after the first seven days of service. If you have not heard about Appnews before you might want to check out the introductory posts at Ghacks, Rarst and Freeware Genius to get an [...]

If you’re into browsers, browser tech and mashups, chances are you know what Uniquity is. In a nutshell it’s a mashup service which lets you navigate and manipulate the web in more natural ways. It’s quite hard to describe if you haven’t seen it, think of the awesome bar in Firefox and multiply it by [...]

How are most Internet users discovering new interesting blogs? The most popular methods are probably by following links on blogs they already read and by recommendations posted in their feed reader. Yes, there are blog directories like Technorati but most of them concentrate on the top blogs and not on the small but as good [...]

System administrators do not have physical access to dedicated servers. These servers are usually hosted by a web hosting company in a secured data center. Most dedicated servers are rented for a certain period of time and then passed on to the next customer. While some dedicated server hosters securely wipe and format the hard [...]

Worio is a clever mashup of several search engines, social bookmarking and personalization features. At its core stands the feature to add related information to searches performed by the user. Currently Google, Yahoo, Live and an internal search engine are at the user’s disposal. The search results are displayed on the left including their title, [...]

I don’t know if you guys know about the Fon router, I have personally used one for ages. It is a community based project, the thinking is that a lot of people buy fon routers, and with the router you get a passcode. If you’re anywhere in the world and you find a Fon router, [...]

News portals and sites on the Internet have reported in length about the trial against the founders of the online Torrent portal and tracker The Pirate Bay. Several of the charges brought forth against the founders had to be dropped during the trial. It did come as a surprise to many that the Pirate Bay [...]

Port forwarding is not something that needs to be configured on most computer systems. It basically describes the concept of forwarding connections to a specific local computer system. Usually a computer router, firewall or other hardware device that is managing or controlling traffic is involved in the process and needs to be configured to forward [...]

It is essential for webmasters and system administrators to monitor their websites and networks to be able to react as soon as possible if all or part of it goes down. That’s especially true for professionals who earn their living with their websites. A possibility are commercial services that notify the webmaster as soon as [...]

WordPress is already well optimized when it comes to SEO (that’s Search Engine Optimization). There are some basic changes that are usually performed like changing the link structure to include the title of the articles or displaying the title of the article in the web browser’s title. Most users stop here, some go ahead and [...]

Pretty much everyone uses eBay, but it is often frustrating when you’re suddenly outbid on a rare or unique item. There are a number of strategies one can use to maximise the amount of auctions won. Sniping is a practice that has been used for years and years. Originally this was a manual process, where [...]

I run another popular site together with Everton of Connected Internet. The site I’m talking about is Windows 7 News, a highly popular and well ranked, website about the next Microsoft operating system Windows 7. A reader contacted us earlier today mentioning a problem that he was encountering when trying to view the feed of [...]

A recent post over at Techie Buzz explained how to access the answers of the Expert Exchange forum. Users who regularly search the Internet for solutions will eventually stumble upon that forum which on first glance provides answers to questions only to registered – meaning paying in this case – users. Users who do not [...]

Ad Blocking in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser is not as accessible as it is in other web browsers like Opera or Firefox with add-ons installed. Many Internet Explorer 8 users do not even know that an ad blocking feature exists in the web browser. It can be easily accessed by pressing the shortcut [...]

If you have users that log into a server, or a desktop (for whatever reason) you might want to take advantage of the Linux Message Of The Day file. This file resides in the /etc directory and, when a user logs in, the contents of that file are displayed every time a user logs into [...]

Twitter is a service which really baffles me. It is an absolute killer idea, but I am still astounded by the volume of traffic it has. I find it very useful for a number of things. It can automate some tasks, you can keep a personal log of things you’ve done, you can use itto [...]

While the Conficker worm did not have the serious impact many assumed it would have on April 1 it is still a threat as millions of computer systems are infected with it. We covered Conficker worm detection and removal instructions in March and would like to add the easiest way of detecting a possible Conficker [...]

If you are in the business of selling and buying websites and domain names or a webmaster interested in finding out the value of his web projects you are left with a few choices. The short answer of “how much is it worth” is “the money that someone is willing to pay for it”. The [...]

Want to see what other web browsers have to offer but have no interest in installing any of them on your computer system? You could hunt down the portable versions of those web browsers that you want to try out if they exist; Or, you could use the virtual browsers at Xenocode which allow you [...]

A few months ago, Mozilla generated lots of buzz through its Geode extension, which locates users through the WiFi access point they were using. Other popular tools have similar features, such as ‘Locate me’ on iPod Touches. So, a very interesting question is how does such technology work? They consult a service called Skyhook Wireless. [...]

You need to click several times on the photo hosting website Flickr if you want to open a full sized photo from a page that is only displaying the thumbnail image of it. The same is true for websites where Flickr thumbnails or images are embedded on. Users who like to open full sized versions [...]

We have a deal in place with a company that is providing free magazine and whitepaper subscriptions and downloads for industry professionals. The following is a list of computer related subscriptions and computer magazines that might be worth subscribing to. Again, it is totally free but one needs to qualify as a industry professional which [...]

Ted Talks are a collection of talks by some of the worlds leading thinkers and doers on Technology, Entertainment and Design (hence the name TED). Many of the talks are inspiring and try to convey ideas on all sorts of subjects in those three categories. Many of the talks are available on the Ted website [...]

I’m currently evaluating the possibility to switch providers. The dedicated server that ghacks is currently running on is totally self managed which can be a real burden if it happens to go down at 4 in the morning. There are basically two types of dedicated servers for customers with lots of subtypes in between. Managed [...]

Running a home web server can be advantageous or even the only solution depending on its purpose. All those dedicated web server providers do not help much for instance if all you want to do is to setup a web server for a home network. Home Web Server is a software to run a web [...]

Every webmaster operating a blog will sooner or later notice that there are some websites out there that do nothing else than to copy contents of other websites and post them on their own. This is usually an automated process done with the use of a script and RSS news feeds. The script will check [...]

Web services like Last.fm are hard pressed to find ways to monetize their inventory to even come close to the bills for the server structure, administrative and development teams, bandwidth and everything else that is connected to their service.This is especially true for services that stream contents on their websites as this usually results in [...]

Over the last ten+ years I have seen Linux configuration tools come and go. In the early days there was the tried-and-true, all-powerful linuxconf that many thought would remain the one and only Linux configuration tool until the end of times. Well, we were wrong and linuxconf has pretty much died off. Why did linuxconf [...]

The MIX09 technology conference which concentrates on web design and development took place in Las Vegas from March 18 – 20, 2009. All of the sessions of the event have been recorded and made available online. A total of 122 sessions are freely accessible online and even available as downloads in various formats including Windows [...]

gHacks has a diverse range of editors, living in, amongst other places, the UK, Germany and Hungary. All write in the medium of English, but learning a foreign language is no easy task. I am currently trying to learn French and German and often find myself using many computer-based resources to ease my learning, some [...]

If you are a teacher or have any need for a classroom-based Wiki project, I have the perfect solution for you. I discovered CourseForum a few years back when I was looking for a web-based software that could help a peer create a web site for her class that could help students stay organized. There [...]

While Google Mail (Gmail) is already able to process Office 2007 file formats such as xlsx, docx or pptx by converting them to html format so that they can be viewed online Google Docs could not until now. This is kinda strange as one would think that Google Docs would be the primary application to [...]

While bandwidth prices are slowly declining it is still quite common that some Internet Providers try to influence the traffic consumption of their customers by manipulating, which usually means artificially reducing, transfer speeds. Up until recently customers had little possibilities to detect traffic shaping. The Internet connection speed analysis provided by the tool collection at [...]

Have you ever come across a website with no means of contacting the webmaster? This poses a problem if you need to contact the webmaster. Can be because of copyright violations, want to ask a question or make a business proposal. Experienced users will look up domain information and retrieve information about the owner of [...]

There is not really a standard out there for document presentation on websites. Many webmasters rely on widgets and scripts to display documents on their websites making it sometimes confusing for their visitors who have to deal with documents that they can only download and various interfaces for document presentations on the website itself. Doc [...]

If you are an Apache user for the hosting of either internal or external web sites then you know how flexible this web server can be. But did you know you can host more than one site on that server? You can thanks to Virtual sites. You can host virtual sites based on either IP [...]

There is definitely no shortage of web browser add-ons and software programs that allow users to download videos from the video portal Youtube. We covered possibilities in the past like Youtube Download or Youtube Batch Downloader. Youtube Manager on the other hand adds to that by not only providing the means to download Youtube videos [...]

There are many forms of Internet advertising that you encounter. One that has raised privacy concerns in the past is the so called behavioral targeting that is being used to track and analyze user behavior to display relevant ads to them. Many users feel that this is a invasion of their privacy and want to [...]

News are usually presented in article form on the Internet with links to related articles in and around the content. Silobreaker provides an interesting alternative to the common presentation with their so called network relationship search. It basically allows the visitor to enter a search term in their form on top to compute a relationship [...]

Vastfm provides an interesting free of charge service that allows users to listen music online; Lots of music to be precise. The website uses mashups to provide their content as their servers are only hosting a few lines of code that power the site. What Vastfm is doing is to pull the selected artist’s discography [...]

How do you buzz on the Internet? One of the most successful ways is a viral marketing campaign. Samsung thought of a great way of promoting their new 256GB MLC Solid State Drives. They decided to create an uber-geeky computer system powered by 24 of their SSDs in Raid mode and show of the video [...]

One of the biggest problems for many webmasters is the unauthorized publishing of their articles on third party websites. Many black hat webmasters take advantage of other webmaster’s work by publishing articles from those webmasters on their websites. Many times without the actual consent of the original author of the articles. But this is naturally [...]