Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
Google Chrome for some time now has displayed a notification icon in the system tray area that users could not remove at all. I'm not talking about the notifications that you could […]
I think we have all been in a situation where a website that we are currently browsing becomes unavailable from one moment to the next. This can happen when an article goes […]
It is probably fair to say that the majority of Windows users encountered toolbars in one way or the other. Maybe you did not pay full attention to an installation dialog and […]
Many programs that contain text editing components ship with a spell checker included that highlight words or phrases that you may have misspelled. Only a few on the other hand come with […]
The German IT-Security institute AV-Test published the results of a test study earlier this month that analyzed search engine malware delivery. The company used a sample size of more than 40 million […]
Mozilla's first draft of a proposal in regards to customization changes in the organization's upcoming Australis theme for the Firefox web browser caused some unrest on the Internet. It looked like Mozilla […]
Yesterday the latest build of Windows "Blue" leaked out onto the web in the form of build 9374. These build leaks have provided such publicity for the company over the years that […]
I have talked about Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (short EMET) before here on Ghacks and do not want to rehash everything that has already been said about it in the past. […]
The Firefox web browser displays a notification on the system whenever downloads complete in the browser. The notification shows up in the lower right corner of the screen, stays there for 2 […]
Rescue discs are great as they provide you with the means to troubleshoot your computer if you cannot boot in to the installed operating systems anymore. Some rescue disks ship with an […]
Waking up in the morning has never been a real problem for me. While I'm usually tired when I know I have to get up at a specific time, and not tired […]
If you have followed Reddit's coverage, or shall I say discussion - of the Boston incident you may have noticed that a post on the site could easily accumulate thousands of comments […]
Yahoo Inc is in a different position than Google is. The company for some time now has been trying to alter the companies course away from the obscurity it is currently in […]
Change is not always a good thing and while I'm not anti-change at all, I only welcome it if it makes sense or aids me in a way or another. I have […]
Most Android devices are set to turn off the screen after a certain time of inactivity. This is done to increase the battery life of the phone or tablet, and while that […]
I'm using the Paint app on my Windows 8 system to save screenshots as I did not bother yet to install a different application - both screenshot tool and image editor - […]
When you type in a web address into Firefox's location bar it gets loaded in the same tab, and when you enter a search term instead, say technology news, this too is […]
Twitter launched #music yesterday, a new music discovery service that combines what Twitter users like music-wise with options to listen to that music right on the site. The service looks at general […]
I have more than 200 games in my Steam library and would consider it of medium size. I know quite a few users with hundreds more, some even breaking the thousand game […]
The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) is a hardware timer that has been developed by Intel and Microsoft. HPET has been used in PC chipsets for nearly a decade at the time […]
I'm not the most advanced Android programmer yet but I have picked up a few things ever since I started to create my first basic apps for the platform. While it is […]
The new Australis theme has been looming around the heads of the Firefox community for a very long time. Most of what we - that is the public - know about the […]
Mozilla implemented a much requested feature recently in Firefox that enabled per-window private browsing in the browser. Previously, Firefox users were only allowed to run the browser - and all of its […]
Most Firefox components are set to auto-update whenever a new version gets released by Mozilla or an author of an extension, theme or plugin. This is true for the browser itself but […]
Google has added several safeguards to the Chrome web browser in recent time to increase the security of the browser in regards to the installation of browser extensions. The developers blocked the […]
Microsoft made several big announcements today. Earlier this day we looked at the two-step verification feature that the company is currently rolling out to provide Microsoft account owners with additional security options […]
To protect user accounts from being hacked, phished, social engineered or stolen by other means, companies and businesses from all over the world have started to deploy a technology that is commonly […]
Microsoft made a couple of changes to the windows management capabilities of the Windows 7 operating system that made my life a lot easier. Especially the option to snap windows to the […]
The Firefox web browser is using icons sparingly in its interface. Most elements in the super menu, context menu or main menu bar do not use icons at all. It is not […]
Foxit Reader, a popular third party reader for pdf documents, has just been updated to version 6.0 by its parent company Foxit Corporation. The new version introduces several new features to the […]
Why is there no sandboxing in the Firefox browser, and why are not individual websites running in their own process instead of one process for all the websites Firefox users have currently […]
Nirsoft has created several useful applications for Windows that allow you to monitor and check various Internet related settings and connections of your PC. One of my favorite applications in this regard […]
Not all applications that you install on your Android phone can be installed on or moved to a SD card that you have added as additional storage to your smartphone, tablet or […]
A first alpha version of Bittorrent Surf was released in January as an extension for the Google Chrome web browser by Bittorrent Inc. Surf integrated a program into the web browser allowing […]
Miro, which started out as the democracy player is a cross-platform Internet TV application that supports a wide range of channels and sources. The developers of the program have just released version […]
So called userscripts are a great way of adding functionality to a browser that is supporting them. If you are new to the concept you are probably wondering about the difference between […]
Disconnect 2 is a new version of Disconnect. a browser add-on for Firefox and Google Chrome that visualizes and blocks third party code that is executed on websites you visit. Third party […]
You have probably read about bitcoins in the past months and it is likely that not everything that you read about was praising the digital currency. What you probably read in the […]
Update: Deferredto is no longer available. A comparable extension that offers similar functionality is not available as well. End Especially image heavy websites are often making use of a technique that is […]
Most Facebook users have been on the social networking site for quite a while. While some may not have had any changes in their life in that time, others may have graduated, […]
