I actually had the idea last year but did not pursuit it enough to make it happen in 2007. This year however is different. I’m very proud to announce the first annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. We will provide visitors with the opportunity to win excellent software programs (and probably other things as well) from December [...]

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I have to admit that I was a Metallica fan back then in the times of Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets and denied their existence after their release of the Black Album. My denial was confirmed by their stance against file sharing and their fans which was full of blatant mistakes and an [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video

I covered the email provider Akapost about ten days ago and liked what it had to offer. It was not your usual Gmail / Yahoo Mail kind of provider but one that would put an end to email spam to your mail inbox. This was achieved by acting as a proxy between the user’s email [...]

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ZoneAlarm is running a promotion today that allows everyone to grab a free copy of their new ZoneAlarm Forcefield product if they register an account at the ZoneAlarm website. ZoneAlarm forcefield puts a protective layer around the browser. In other words it uses software virtualization / sandbox technology that is known from Sandboxie or SafeSpace. [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

In short. If you are a professional you are eligible for free subscriptions to any of the information products (mostly magazines) that I have listed below plus every other that is available at my Free Trade Magazine Subscriptions & Technical Document Downloads page here at Ghacks. While I do focus the products that I write [...]

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The Giveaway of the Day website is offering some very nice software packages from time to time. Today’s offer is A-Squared Anti-Malware in version 3.5 from Emsisoft which can be freely downloaded and installed from the website. The software developers can spread their software to a wide variety of users and gain some free marketing [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft acquired the company Caligari back in February which was probably best known for their 3d modeling and animation software Truespace which came a long way since its initial release on the Commodore Amiga back in 1994. Well two days ago Microsoft announced that the new version of Truespace would be free for download for [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The System Mechanic software has been around for ages and the developers have recently introduced version 8 of their troubleshooting and maintenance product that is compatible with the 32-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000. The software provides access to various tools that repair so called “problems”, make the computer faster and [...]

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You might have heard it in the news that Time Warner and Sprint / Verizon are blocking the complete alt.* hierarchy of the Usenet after coming to an agreement with N.Y. attorney general Andrew Cuomo in an effort to fight child pornography on the Usenet. This basically means that roughly 100.000 groups will be blocked [...]

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