Not all but several Firefox add-on projects are hosted on the project hosting website GitHub. This means among other things that the source code of the extension and often also its Firefox […]
You can rely on the native uninstaller when it comes to the removal of installed programs on Windows or use a specialized product to make sure that leftovers are removed from the […]
Whenever you want to uninstall software on Windows, you have two core options to do so. You may install it using Windows' remove a program control panel applet or use third-party tools […]
I wanted to give you all an update on my original post about Ghacks is dying from February this year. I don't want to rehash all the post to put those up […]
Whenever you visit an eBay marketplace, a list of suggested items is displayed in your feed on the start page if you are logged in to your eBay account. While that sounds […]
The Windows operating system saves records of every device that it recognizes while the PC is running. If you connect a new USB Flash Drive for instance, it will save those information […]
Microsoft will ship Windows 10 later this year and with it comes an offer to upgrade existing versions of Windows to the operating system for free. Since the majority of Windows users […]
One of the first things that I do when I run a media player on the desktop for the first time is to make sure that seeking is mapped properly to the […]
Unchecky, a popular Windows program that blocks adware and third-party offers during software installations has been acquired by Reason Software, a company known for products such as herdProtect and Should I Remove […]
Remember Android Device Manager? Google introduced the service back in 2013 to help you locate your phone and erase the device if it was stolen or cannot be found anymore. It required […]
Google community manager Abby announced on the official Google Maps forum yesterday that the company will move all users of Google Maps to the new version of the product soon. The same […]
Web Alert is a free application for Android devices that monitors websites or parts of websites and notifies you of changes. It can be quite useful to keep an eye on websites: […]
Google pushed out an update to the stable channel of its browser Chrome yesterday that brought the version of the browser to 42. With it comes the second phase of a major […]
The past week has not been easy for uBlock users as lots of things happened in that time. The first thing that happened was that Raymond Hill (Gorhill), the creator of uBlock, […]
Microsoft has just released security updates for April 2015 on today's Patch Day. Security updates are published regularly by the company on the second Tuesday of each month. This guide offers information […]
Opera Mini, Opera Software's long standing web browser for feature phones, underpowered devices and situations where bandwidth needs to be saved, received an update today that brings a new user interface and […]
Mozilla added a new feature to Firefox 40 on Android that acts as a queue for urls that are sent to the browser. The main idea behind the feature is to prevent […]
Remembr is a free Windows clipboard manager that is currently being developed by the creator of CCEnhancer, JavaRa and System Ninja. I use the clipboard a lot throughout the day. Copy urls […]
Remember Greasefire? It was an add-on for the Firefox browser that would alert you whenever userscripts were available for sites that you visited in the browser. The extension used userscripts.org as its […]
Konvertor, a file manager for Windows with impressive support for more than 4200 different file formats is available for free now. Windows Explorer is fine when it comes to basic file operations […]
Adblock Plus is by far the most popular adblocker available for the Firefox web browser. If you check stats on Mozilla's website you will notice that it has almost ten times the […]
The image hosting site Imgur rose to fame when it became Reddit's preferred hosting site. The majority of popular groups on Reddit use Imgur exclusively to display images in those groups. Popular […]
Changes on YouTube are not rolled out to all users at once. Google tests them on the live site after testing them internally by enabling them for a fraction of the site's […]
I have lots of ideas and plans. I want to write a book, create an Android application for Ghacks that rocks, create other Android apps for various ideas that I have, create […]
Wisptis.exe, the Microsoft Pen and Touch input component, is a process that may be running on your system even if it is not connected to a touch screen or has no pen […]
Device drivers are important files as they allow you and the operating system to interact with hardware connected to the system. Drivers, just like executable files, can be digitally signed to improve […]
Even if you take good care of your privacy on Facebook information about you may still leak. A friend may post a photo that you are in without asking your permission, or […]
When I set up Windows 10 on a new PC I downloaded only the latest NVIDIA driver for the video card but did not have to install any driver apart from that […]
Just like many other native programs that ship with Windows, the default program uninstaller is not well suited for the job. That's why options such as Revo Uninstaller, Geek Uninstaller or Bulk […]
Mozilla's Firefox browser is one of the few browsers left standing that displays an address bar and search bar by default in its interface. Ever since Google Chrome was launched, most browsers […]
One of the negative side effects of my cheap mobile subscription is that I only have 200 Megabytes of free high speed mobile data per month after which the speed is artificially […]
Lookeen is a powerful desktop search for Windows systems that requires the Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0. Up until now, it was only available as a commercial version. This changes with today's release […]
Power Close for the Firefox browser is a useful add-on for users of the browser who have more than a handful of websites open in the browser at any point in time. […]
Bookmarks tend to grow over time if you are making use of the feature that every modern and not so modern browser supports at least to a degree. Bookmarks are links that […]
Whenever I hit d in Firefox's address bar I get a suggestion to open the Download Squad website. The site has not been around for a long time but I never found […]
Firefox's memory usage has been a hot topic ever since it was first released. The main complaint is that the browser users too much RAM while running. Some users experience issues because […]
I don't listen to music on the computer when I'm working as I find it too distracting. I do like to play music on the other hand in the background when I […]
Facebook is one of the largest video hosting and streaming sites on the Internet. It is held back somewhat by missing options to embed most videos on third-party websites (you can embed […]
When you search for software downloads currently on Google, for instance for Firefox, VLC or Google Chrome, then ads may be displayed to you before the organic search results. The problem with […]
VeraCrypt is a TrueCrypt fork that came to life after the original TrueCrypt project was abandoned by its developers. It is not the only fork of TrueCrypt -- Ciphershed is another -- […]
