PC game publishers, like the music or film industry, face the challenges that piracy pose. A game for instance is usually available on the Internet before it can be purchased. The game […]
The National Geographic Wallpaper Downloader has been initially released in December of last year. The application back then allowed users to download hundreds of National Geographic wallpapers in an automated process. All […]
If you are a Facebook regular, chance is you have played around with some of the applications offered on the social networking sites. This ranges from the overly popular Farmville game over […]
Lepide User Management is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to manage local and network accounts from a simple management interface. If you are a Windows system administrator you sometimes have […]
Download Manager Tweak is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that improves the browser's download manager in several ways. The standard Firefox download manager does not provide many information or options […]
Have you ever used the Linux pager? If you've not you might want to read my article "Get to know Linux: The pager". The KDE 4.4 pager is, as the above article […]
Reprofiler is a free program for Windows devices that assists you in repairing user name to user folder associations on Windows. Every user of the Windows operating system has a user folder […]
If you browse the Internet a lot and use keyboard shortcuts to speed up the browsing, you may have encountered the following behavior. If you happen to visit a site with embedded […]
If you visit the official Google Chrome extension gallery Chrome Web Store you notice that there are quite a few ways to sort Chrome extensions. It is for example possible to display […]
Typing Aid is a free portable program for Windows that enables text auto-complete functionality on a system-wide level. Auto complete is a semi-automated typing aid that usually is added by software developer's […]
Once more unto the KDE topic my friends, once more. This time, however, we take a look at a very useful feature that allows you to easily share out folders with a […]
If you are a Ghacks regular you have without doubt noticed that Adobe has published an update for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat yesterday that fixes two security vulnerabilities that affect Adobe […]
When it comes to new Google Search features, I'm often late to the game when it comes to features that are only visible to logged in users. The reason for this is […]
Please Rob Me is a free service that demonstrates the dangers of using location based services publicly on the Internet. Location based services can be helpful to the user, no question about […]
Sticking with our KDE theme this week, it's time to learn how to make KDE 4.4 yours. You've downloaded it, you've used it, and now you want to personalize it. You might […]
Most Internet users know that a website they visit can access various information about the computer system used to make the connection. This includes the screen resolution, operating system, IP address and […]
Index Your Files is a portable file search program for the Windows operating system to speed up file searches and be less of a drag to the system. The program uses an […]
The National Software Reference Library has initially been designed to aid computer forensics experts in the investigation of crimes that involve computers. It consists of a list of nearly 40 million files […]
With the rise of KDE 4.4 comes a new crop of desktop widgets (or Plasmoids). Earlier renditions of KDE 4.x saw the Plasmoids less than useful. The latest workings, however, have become […]
Watch Live Football Streaming Online is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that lists live football streams that you can tune in to in its interface. In time for the beginning […]
Firefox matches the text that users enter into its address bar automatically with the browsing history, bookmarks, and open tabs to display matches to the user. One thing that I noticed lately […]
Daniel reviewed a program called Outlook on the desktop two years ago which enables Windows users to display the Outlook calendar on the system's desktop where it can be conveniently accessed without […]
Data Recovery Wizard is a free and commercial file recovery and partition recovery program for the Windows operating system. Computer users should have at least one data recovery software at hand in […]
Google released a YouTube Test video back in 2010. The test video was designed to help Youtube users who are experiencing problems playing back videos on the popular video hosting website. Different […]
Nokia's PC Suite is a software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to connect and manage Nokia mobile phones. The application adds all sorts of useful features, for […]
Reports about blue screen crashes began to appear on the Internet shortly after the release of this month's security patches for the Windows operating system. Especially Windows XP users seemed to have […]
If you read my most recent article ("Upgrading to KDE 4.3.5 and should you") you will have noticed two things: 1) I am behind by one release on my KDE updates ;-) […]
Find, Mix and Watch. That is the slogan of YouTube's newest addition YouTube Disco. The new feature is basically a music exploration service. It begins by entering an artist, band or song […]
If you ever wanted to open a few websites from Firefox's bookmarks folder, the history or the autocomplete option you know that it requires more work than it should. The menus close […]
This morning I decided to go ahead and upgrade KDE to the latest, stable release. I had grown weary of this Linux desktop because of instability issue as well as lack of […]
Start-Q is a Windows startup manager that you can use to delay the startup of select programs to speed up the overall startup performance of the system. Older versions of the Windows […]
PDF Binder is a free program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that lets you merge multiple PDF documents into one. There are several scenarios where users might want to merge PDF files […]
One of the new features of Google Chrome 5 is a Google Translate bar that pops up automatically if a website uses a different language than the default system language. Chrome users […]
I've been using Linux for longer than I can remember. Over those years I have written a number of "top 5" lists for various publications. So I thought it would be fun […]
SearchFilterView is a free software program for Microsoft Windows that lists all installed search filters of the computer in its interface when you run it. The Windows operating system, or more precisely […]
We started the February guide of building a PC with the selection of the computer's cpu, memory and motherboard. This article will add a power supply unit (PSU), a case and the […]
If you search for cancel Google using your search engine of choice, you may notice that the resulting pages may display widely varying answers or information. The core reason here is that […]
A recently published technical paper entitled "Chip and pin is broken" by security researchers Steven Murdoch, Saar Drimer, Mike Bond and Ross Anderson reveals how criminals can use stolen payment cards without […]
Remember Aardvark? The community that was designed around experts that helped other users who experienced problems in their field of expertise? The premise of Aardvark was that every user in the world […]
Every tech blog and website in existence seems to have written about Google Buzz at least once since its release a few days ago. That's a lot of feedback for a relatively […]
