Critical vulnerabilities that affected Adobe's flagship products Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player were revealed in a security advisory by the Adobe Product Incident Response Team. The vulnerability affects Flash Player 10 […]
Remember the story on Read Write Web that was called "Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login"? It causes some controversy back then because it made the popular web blog rank […]
CCleaner is the usual recommendation when it comes to deleting those pesky temporary files that the operating system and programs collect all the time. The software is highly customizable and supports a […]
Apple have formerly unveiled the tech industry's worst kept secret, their next generation iPhone, as reported by Engadget. The iPhone 4 was first leaked (i.e. lost) in a bar in California and […]
MSI Afterburner, despite its name, is a graphics card configuration tool that is compatible with a wide range of graphic cards and not exclusive to MSI cards. It is for instance fully […]
One of the things I really like about Linux is how it handles a file's ability to be executable. If you create a script and you want that script to be executable, […]
I have been working with the Bing search engine for the last couple of days after switching to it from Google Search. It still takes time to get used to this new […]
I get this question a lot. And generally speaking the answer is a resounding "no". I have gone nearly twelve years using Linux without defragging a drive and I've never noticed a […]
Many experienced Windows users do not use the default Uninstall A Program control panel applet in Windows. Not so much because it is not comfortable to use but more because of it […]
The default address bar search engine in the Firefox web browser is Google Search. This means that any search phrase that the user enters directly into the Firefox address bar may result […]
Australia's Attorney General has instructed the country's police to investigate search giant Google for possible breaches of privacy while taking photos for it's Street View service. The investigation, reported by the BBC, […]
Many computer users think that the functionality provided by different keys on a computer keyboard is fixed in stone and cannot be changed at all. Most might be surprised to hear that […]
Most Internet users who read about HTML5 and how it is going to change the web might think it is all about HTML5 video as the controversy surrounding it was all over […]
If you have visited a Bittorrent website or torrent search engine lately you might have come upon magnet links that were offered on the torrent download pages. Chance is the magnet link […]
I've done a few articles about the Evolution groupware client here on Ghacks and I promise more. As Evolution is, essentially, the Outlook of Linux, it deserves plenty of attention. In this […]
One of the most useful operating system recovery tools in Windows XP was the recovery console. Here you could perform very useful tasks like repairing the Master Boot Record and the Boot […]
Computer users with multiple PCs often want to deploy the same software on all of their machines to access the same data and work with the same configuration. That is relatively easy […]
I can't tell you how many times I have used a man page only to find either an error (due to author not updating) or that the man page itself was confusing […]
One of the great features of the Commodore Amiga computer was that it's graphical user interface Workbench would automatically create an icon on the desktop whenever a disk was inserted into the […]
Nothing is worse for a computer user than a hard drive that is nearing the end of its life cycle as hard drive crashes or unreadable sectors could lead to data loss […]
Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, is officially one year old today. The search engine formerly known as Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search was officially unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve […]
Is it gmail.com or googlemail.com? The answer to this question depends on the country that you are living in and when you have registered a Google Mail account. Most users who signed […]
Facebook Photo Zoom is an extension for the Google Chrome web browser that makes it a lot easier to view larger versions of photos posted on Facebook. Even better, it does so […]
Update: Please note that the design of the Firefox add-on repository has changed again in recent time and that some of the information below are not valid anymore because of this. When […]
If you have followed the development of web browsers in the past months you probably noticed that a fight for the HTML5 video format broke out between big players. Both Microsoft and […]
Panda Cloud Antivirus made quite an impact in 2009 when it was officially released after an initial beta testing period. The cloud driven antivirus solution combined effective virus protection with a smaller […]
Soluto is a software program that can be used to analyze the Windows startup. It provides in depth information about each item and program that gets loaded during startup so that the […]
Later this year Google will release their Linux-based Chrome OS operating system. They first announced it a year ago when XP shipping on Netbooks was the most talked-about subject in IT circles. […]
I wanted to continue with the rescue theme, but since Partimage is limited in it's file system support, I thought I would go another route. That route? Gparted. Gparted is an amazingly […]
Google is just rolling out a feature to U.S. users that allows them to change the background image of the Google Search homepage. The feature should be available to all U.S. users […]
I tried burning a DVD yesterday and noticed that the DVD burning software was not recognizing the DVD drive. A quick check in the Devices and Printers section of the Windows control […]
Outlook Tools is a third party software for Microsoft Outlook that provides support and advanced settings for users working with the email client on a regular basis. The free software program will […]
Subtitle editing is probably not something that the average user will ever come into contact with. But there are cases where a subtitle editor like Kijio might come in handy, the program […]
Update 2: Symantec announced in 2018 that it would shut down Norton ConnectSafe on November 15, 2018. Update: Norton DNS is available on a new website and now called Norton ConnectSafe. You […]
The popular online store Amazon keeps a record of a customer's likes and dislikes by tracking activities on Amazon properties but also on third party sites that display Amazon advertisements. These information […]
In my last article I showed you how to save a partition from a drive to a local image file using the Partimage tool (see my article "Copy partitions on your system […]
Office Key Remover is a small portable application for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system that can be used to remove Office licensing information from the system so that […]
If you want to reopen a recently closed tab in the Google Chrome browser you have got the choice to right-click the tab bar and select re-open closed tab from the menu […]
I have a dual-core processor in my main PC, which is good, and will later this summer buy a new computer with a quad-core processor, which is better, but probably not something […]
The Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT) is a new program that corrects misalignments of partitions effectively increasing the performance of the hard drives. IT Specialists who are interested in background technical information can […]
