Telify, an extension for the Thunderbird email client and Mozilla Firefox web browser, turns phone numbers in emails and on web pages into clickable links that opens supported voice applications when clicked […]
Facebook and privacy, the saga will never end it seems. A recent blog posting over at Facebook by Jeff Bowen outlines some of the platform updates for developers. The announcement is technical […]
Recently I tasked myself to begin creating promotional videos for the ebooks I have written for my publishing company Autumnal Press. These videos needed to be short snippets that could serve to […]
If things go as planned Firefox 4 final could be released to the public in February. Beta 9 has been released just a few days ago which gives a good indication of […]
One of these days, and I'll try this eventually, I'm going to write an article called "Apple" which will contain just a single word, that word will again be "Apple". What will the […]
Two options are available to save a website. The first is to save it as a html document which is supported by all web browsers. The second option to create a high […]
The idea on paper sounded great: Add a sandbox to Adobe Flash to prevent many attacks from affecting the underlying operating system. It appears however that the sandbox which has been introduced […]
The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is 10 today. It was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is now the largest and most popular reference website with over 17 […]
Internet users who connect to the Internet out of a computer network have to be very careful about the data they send and receive, and how they do that. The Firefox add-on […]
You may have seen an increasing number of articles about IPv6 in the past year. IPv6 is an Internet Protocol that has been designed as the successor of the currently used IPv4 […]
The latest beta of Internet Explorer 9 displays open websites in tabs on the right side of the address bar. The browser ui has been designed this way to maximize the space […]
The first global test of the IPv6 net addressing system will take place on June 8th, and Google, Facebook, Akamai and Yahoo will all be taking part, according to a report by […]
One of the main problems with flash cookies, or local shared objects (LSOs), is that they are harder to clean than regular cookies. For regular cookies the browser offers all the means […]
A firewall is used to control incoming and outgoing traffic. Many users believe that simply installing a firewall is enough to protect their computer from malicious attacks but that does not have […]
The visual conditions can sometimes be that bad that you can barely read anything on the monitor. That's for instance the case if you are working with your laptop in broad sunlight […]
Sony have announced that they're suing the hackers who uncovered the security codes for the PlayStation 3, that the console uses to determine that software is genuine. This means that anybody who has […]
Registry Commander is a free software for Windows that administrators may use instead of the built-in Registry Editor. Most Windows users use the built-in Registry Editor when they need to change settings […]
If you have a need to manage MySQL databases, you know that learning the syntax for the various MySQL tools can be a real nightmare. Fortunately there are tools out there that […]
Have you ever asked yourself why you can go online with your laptop in one room but not in another? Or why you get disconnects and a bad signal strength in one […]
The Rubik's Cube was a very successful puzzle toy back in the 80's back when it first came out and it is still sold today with great success. More than 350 million […]
Sticky notes are handy as a temporary means to remember information. They are usually plastered around the monitor and computer desk but Note Anywhere for Chrome takes them to the virtual realm. […]
A study by anti-fraud company MarkMonitor has monitored 43 file-sharing websites and found that between them they had 53 billion visits in the last year, according to a report by the BBC. […]
The HTML5 web video wars are heating up again, this time with news that Google announced to remove support for the h.264 codec from the Chrome browser in the next couple months. […]
The second Tuesday of a month is Microsoft's patch day where the software company releases security patches and fixes for its products. The first patch day of the year 2011 brings two […]
In the land of Linux applications have what is called their "nice" value. This value sets the priority that any given application receives. The nice value ranges from -20 to 19. The […]
Most Windows users associate temporary folders with a cache in Windows that the operating system uses to store temporary files in. The free software Temporary Data Storage Folder can be used to […]
It is sometimes necessary to start the desktop email client Outlook with startup parameters, usually to resolve issues or troubleshoot the program. It is for instance possible to use startup commands to […]
Have you ever smashed the PC keyboard or mouse on the desk in wild frustration because something did not work out as you wanted? Or maybe you have given the PC case […]
SysInternals Updater is a free program for Microsoft Windows systems to update SysInternals software automatically on the device it is run on. Applications developed by SysInternals are used by many Windows technicians, […]
One of the main advantages of Solid State Drives (SSD) is their speed compared to conventional platter-based hard drives. They should in theory speed up reading and writing processes on the operating […]
Yesterday I wrote here that global spam levels had dropped mysteriously month on month since August 2010 from a high of about a quarter of a trillion messages a day to about […]
Since time immemorial, experimenting and technology have been a vital factor behind man’s progress. His thirst for knowledge has exposed the unheard secrets of the universe. Our home, earth has been left […]
Hi there ghacks readers! It's mouser from DonationCoder.com speaking to you here. Martin has graciously invited me to make a guest post on ghacks about the latest event on the DonationCoder site, […]
One of the best options on today's Internet to listen to a song, any song for that matter, is to search for that song on Youtube. Chance is there is at least […]
If you are looking for a VPN solution for your Linux machine or network you have more than likely examined such solutions as OpenVPN. Many of the Linux VPN solutions require complex, […]
Chromium is the Open Source part of the Google Chrome browser basically. It is a standalone browser that runs very well on its own, and some users prefer to use it for […]
7 Taskbar Tweaker was one of the first applications that came out to tweak Windows 7's new taskbar. I reviewed the application back in November 2009. The developer has continuously improved the […]
The number of applications that add native 64-bit support is on the rise. Yesterday we featured the memory optimizer Minimem and today it is the Windows optimizer 7plus which was released in […]
It's been reported that the total volume of global spam email that is being sent has fallen, month-on-month since the beginning of August 2010 and nobody knows why. The fall, which you […]
The memory management software Minimem was initially developed to limit the memory consumption of the Firefox web browser. The application was designed to keep Firefox's memory hunger in line by "removing as […]
