IMDB Movie Review Shortcut is a free browser add-on for the Firefox web browser to look up information the movie database quickly. If you are like me, you use the International Movie […]
Lately it has been a veritable onslaught of distribution releases: Ubuntu 9.10, Fedora 12, Mandriva (article coming soon) , Debian 5 (article coming soon), and many more. With all of these releases […]
File hosting services such as Rapidshare, Megaupload or Depositfiles are immensely popular on the Internet. They offer a comfortable solution for sharing files with other users over the Internet without having to […]
Switcher is a free portable program for Microsoft's Windows operating system that adds new application switching options to Windows. If you ask Windows users how they switch between applications then a majority […]
Microsoft changed how themes are handled in the company's Windows 7 operating system. While core system files are still protected from manipulation in the operating system, the overall theme management options and […]
Have you ever asked yourself how you did end up with the email account that you are currently using? Chance is that you have at least one account at one of the […]
Even though the Linux operating system is very stable and rarely needs a reboot, there are times when an update (such as a kernel update) will make this a requirement. At least […]
System Tray Cleaner is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices that informs you about system tray icons, and helps you remove them. Have you ever asked yourself to which software program […]
One of the security enhancements that Microsoft added to Windows Vista and Windows 7 is that 64-bit versions accept only signed drivers by default. The operating system refuses to install and run […]
If you are a Firefox user who likes to have dozens of tabs open in the Firefox tabbar then you may sometimes have a hard time finding a specific tab that is […]
We ran a post in the beginning of this month (read: Avira Antivir Update Hangs) in which we mentioned a growing problem that users of Avira Antivir experienced. The problem that users […]
Google has added a new module to Google Analytics called Intelligence. The new module, which is in beta currently, displays custom and automatic alerts that are created from website traffic operations. It […]
For most lovers of music on the go, the default seems to be the combination of iTunes and iP* (where * is either hone or od). This is great for Apple and […]
Samsung put out on display two phones that have not been announced yet. And as one can expect, they got covered on the Internet. These phones flag off a whole new line […]
Google Translate is one of the most popular automatic translation services on the Internet. It is not only available at the official Google Translate website but also as a mashup in various […]
Okay, so we have more rumors about the Motorola Motus. We have specs, features, a new name and also a very shaky picture. I mean it looks like it the camera was […]
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a hard disk defragmentation software for devices running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Note: The setup of the program is classified as potentially unwanted software by many security […]
The Google phone is all over the Internet, thanks to a fresh wave of new leaks and speculations. It looks like the Google phone is ‘very real’ and it is being developed […]
The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It's not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on […]
AllMyApps is a free service for Microsoft Windows devices to install multiple selected programs in one go on the target computer system. The software installation manager AllMyApps offers similar functionality as Ninite […]
A recent post over on Search Engine Land suggests that Google will be rolling out a new search interface - or more precisely search result page design - to selected users later […]
VideoToMKV is an easy to use software program to convert various video formats into the Matroska container format (mkv) on Windows. The program uses the ffmpeg library for the conversions which is […]
TorrentFetcher is a free program for Microsoft Windows that you can use to run searches on popular torrent sites from your desktop. Users looking for torrents usually go to a website like […]
Now that the source code of Chrome OS is in the open, the project has entered the second stage of the development phase. I suggest to read the Chrome OS announcement article […]
Well, after the HTC CEO said in a cryptic tone that they would never make an Android HD2 there was a general round of murmuring about what happens to the rumored HTC […]
Google today has released Google Chrome OS - or operating system - as Open Source under the name Chromium Open Source Project. You may have already read in the past month that […]
I'm fairly confident that you have, at one time or another, run across an md5checksum file as you have perused the internet. Whether it was a download file or even an application […]
Remember Kurara? That phone from Sony Ericsson That got leaked right after the XPERIA X10 came out from behind the veil? Well, we had it pegged down as an ordinary phone that […]
FastStone Image Viewer is a powerful picture viewer for Windows that supports all major graphic formats, and is blazing fast. Note: The review covers FastStone Imave Viewer 4.0 for the most part. […]
It was getting really boring around here without the bountiful goodness of exciting new Apple Tablet rumors. And it would’ve remained that way if DigiTimes hadn’t come to the rescue. Their propensity […]
Most tech savvy computer users who visited a technology news website yesterday noticed that Microsoft has released a public beta version of their upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 software product. The beta has […]
No Color is a free browser add-on for the Firefox web browser that you may utilize to remove colors and background images from websites. Internet users sometimes visit websites that make excessive […]
Orkut introduced a new redesigned homepage at the end of October 2009. The new Orkut as its users like to call it is currently invite only meaning that only those Orkut users […]
Companies have three options basically if they want their software programs to be compatible with Firefox: They can create a Firefox add-on, a plugin, or integrate the program in the components directory […]
Get in on the latest in the iPhone app store, the hottest little place to be on earth if you truly believe that for every problem there’s an app just waiting to […]
According to several reports on websites such as Computerworld, a new phishing scam is currently in the wild that attempts to steal Facebook login information from users of the social networking site. […]
SimplyIcon is a free program for the Microsoft Windows operating system to create program icons in various sizes for Windows files and programs. Every file on a Windows machine has an icon […]
In the wake of Ubuntu's 9.10 release, many distributions were forgotten. But one distribution, in particular, keeps getting better and better under the radar. That distribution? Fedora. Just this week Fedora 12 […]
Google Image Swirl is a new Google Labs project that uses Google Images to display relations between images found by the image search engine. Google's image search engine is a very comprehensive […]
YouTube users experience a wide variety of problems and issues on the popular video hosting portal. Probably the most common issues for most users are playback problems while playing YouTube videos. This […]
Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up
Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in 2005 by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers.