Hardware manufacturers that want to ship Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system with their PCs need to implement the Secure Boot feature that is part of the UEFI specification. The feature basically determines which code or programs can be started during boot. The core intention here is to prevent malware and other unauthorized code from [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

I record game videos every now and then to upload them to the YouTube channel of one of my pet-project websites. I used to use Fraps for that in the beginning, but have switched in past months to the excellent MSI Afterburner which started supporting screen video recording in the latest beta versions. Both programs [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Tutorials Basic

Monitoring the Internet traffic of a PC can be highly beneficial. It can for instance be used to find out which applications send or receive data, or what’s causing the huge bandwidth bill at the end of each month. NetBalancer is an Internet traffic monitoring and controlling software that is available as a free and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Like automated computer translations, text to speech applications are offering a solid but far from perfect result. Still, if you had to choose between not understanding or reading at all and computer aided options you’d probably pick the computer aided ones. Balabolka is a free text-to-speed software for the Windows operating system. The program makes [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Hi there ghacks readers! It’s mouser from DonationCoder.com speaking to you here. Martin has graciously invited me to make a guest post on ghacks about the latest event on the DonationCoder site, and I’m thrilled to be able to speak directly to the vast ghacks empire :) Today we posted the results of our annual [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Donationcoder are holding a Nany coding challenge every year. Nany, which stands for New Apps (for a) New Year is held for the fourth time this year and we can expect some great new apps that are published thanks to the challenge. The newsletter lists 27 different entries as of December 2 with enough time [...]

Categories: The Web

Keeping a list of your home inventory can be a beneficial thing to do. Reasons that come to mind are for insurance purposes, for keeping a track history of items that have been purchased or just as a inventory list for specific collectible items. Free Home Inventory Software is a freeware that has been designed [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Back in January we reviewed a Giveaway of the Day version of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. Back then we liked the program for its simplicity and effectiveness, but found a few negative points like no video previews or options to change the output file name. The developers have contacted me again today, letting me know [...]

Categories: Mac, Software, Windows

Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail, is a free messaging software for the Windows operating system. Windows Mail is part of Windows Live, a collection of Microsoft tools that are available to extend the Windows operating system. Windows Mail Saver has been designed as a backup and restoration utility for Windows Mail. The free software [...]

Categories: Email, Software, Windows