With mobile access to Ghacks reaching new heights every month, I’d like to use this Ask The Readers post to get your opinion on a few things that I have been pondering about for a couple of months. First issue that I would like to throw into the room is mobile access to Ghacks. There [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Installing, Copying Software on Windows, How Do You Do It?
One of the things that irritates me ever since I started using Windows is software installations on the system. You are probably wondering what’s irritating me. The core problem for me is that there are no general software installation rules on the system. Software by default gets installed mainly into two directory structures. First the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Things To Do When You Are Tired, But Still Need To Work
It happens that I get tired in the late afternoons, so tired in fact that I’m hard pressed not to go to bed directly to sleep the sleep of the brave. This happens often after a restless night, or when I wake up to early. The following list contains tips that help me stay awake [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 24
Ask The Readers: New Computer System Suggestions
My plan is to build a new computer system after Windows 7 is released to install the new operating system on it and retire my old Windows XP system. I have done little research until now and decided to tap into the best possible resource of computer knowledge there is: the Ghacks readers. I do [...]
External Hard Drives: How do I Choose Which One to Buy
Lately, I’ve realized that my computer is full of data and is close to its limit. Normally, I burn data onto a CD or DVD and then delete it off my system. The problem is that over time, the CDs have developed a few unreadable areas. So, I’ve pretty much lost a few chunks of [...]
Ask the Readers: Someone Gave Me a Laptop. Now What?
I had relatives from out of the country a little while ago and before they left, one of them decided to leave his laptop behind for me. It’s an old model from the Toshiba Satellite 2410 series but I’m not complaining since I got it free. The current configuration of the laptop is a little [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 23
Ask The Readers: Ghacks Redesign
Two days ago I asked if I should move some of the more advanced content to another blog. The result currently stands at 47% no voters to 41% yes voters with 12% saying they do not care. This reflects why the decision is that hard to make and why it takes so long to come [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 36
Ask The Readers: Moving Articles To New Blog
Ghacks has seen some changes in the last two months with the addition of Jack and his Linux articles and Daniel’s web development series. A question that came up was if those two (or one of them) should be moved to a separate blog. I still have not come to a decision and I thought [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 29
Ask The Readers: Recommended Security Software
We have been writing about great free software programs for more than three years now here at Ghacks and it is finally time to create a list of programs that we can recommend fully to anyone who is looking for a software with that functionality. It would not be Ghacks if we would not ask [...]