Ghacks has been selected by HP to be part of the promotional campaign for the HP TouchSmart 600 multi-touch tablet PC. The campaign includes banner advertisements targeting UK consumers and a one-week site re-skin visible to users from all countries. This article is written to inform you about the site re-skin and the promotional campaign. [...]

Categories: Hardware

While Adobe Flash offers many exciting possibilities to web developers and users alike it also introduces several additional security risks to computer systems. We already discussed the impact of so called Flash Cookies which are able to track a user even if he deletes the normal cookies regularly across multiple web browsers. The HP Security [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

There is no direct way of making an USB device bootable in the Windows operating system. Probably even more bothersome to some Windows users is the fact that USB storage devices can only be formatted with the FAT file system and not the NTFS file system. HP’s USB Disk Storage Format Tool (download) works with [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Websites can be scrolled to print an area that is not totally visible on the screen. The snippets can be copied or added as clips to the Clip Book from where they can be printed and edited. What really surprised me was the fact that the contents of the clip book are available both in [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

My parents are using their HP printer most of the time to print text documents but every now and then they also use it to print a picture they have shot with their digital camera. Their normal printer settings have been optimized heavily so that the ink cartridges last longer. This includes the exclusive use [...]

Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows