Martin Brinkmann
Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News back in 2005. Martin started his career as a tech support representative at a large German financial corporation which he used to finance his college education in English, Information Technology and History.
He quit college and his job when Ghacks began to attract a large enough readership. He made the decision to become a full time blogger and webmaster, and has not looked back since.
Martin is interested in all things tech. His primary focus is on desktop operating systems, web browsers, Internet services, and privacy related topics.
He published the book The Complete Windows 10 Privacy Guide: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update version in 2017. Martin writes a weekly column for fellow tech site Betanews as well.
You can reach Martin on Facebook or on Twitter. Please use the contact form at the bottom of the page to contact the author directly.
Martin has been quoted or mentioned in many major online and print publications, including Forbes, Lifehacker.com, ComputerWorld, LinkedIn, Reddit, Betanews.com, Bleeping Computer, TechCrunch, PC World, Tom's Hardware, Slashdot, Hacker News, The Register, and more.
Martin's articles on Ghacks
Nvidia driver trimmer NVSlimmer updated to version 0.9
It has been a while since we wrote about the excellent NVSlimmer tool here on Ghacks. NVSlimmer is a handy program for owners of NVIDIA graphics cards as it gives more control […]
Three Reasons not to upgrade to the new Firefox for Android browser right now
Mozilla has been working on a new mobile browser for Google's Android operating system for some time now. The idea was to create a browser from scratch that uses modern frameworks and […]
Ghacks Deals: Goose VPN Lifetime Subscription (or 2-year, 4-year)
Goose VPN is a VPN service that is based in the Netherlands that does not restrict the number of devices that you may use at the same time. It has a network […]
How to enable Redirect Tracking Protection in Firefox
Mozilla released Firefox 79.0 to the stable channel recently and one of the main changes of that release improved the browser's tracking protection feature. Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 introduced support for preventing […]
Windows 10 build 20185 comes with encrypted DNS settings
Microsoft published a new Windows 10 build to the Windows Insider Dev channel today that brings a number of improvements including options to configure encrypted DNS right in the Settings. DNS-over-HTTPS is […]
LibreOffice 7.0 is now available
LibreOffice 7.0, a new version of the popular open source Office suite, has been released to the public. The new version is already available for download on the project site and its […]
Vivaldi 3.2 launches with pop-out video improvements
Vivaldi Technologies released the web browser Vivaldi 3.2 to the Stable channel on August 5, 2020. The new version of the browser for supported desktop systems improves the built-in pop-out video functionality […]
Ghacks Deals: Lifetime of Learnable: Learn to Code, Build Apps, Websites & More (77% off)
Learnable is an eLearning platform that focuses on programming languages and related skills. You may learn programming languages such as C#, C++, PHP, Java, or Python using the platform using a study […]
Microsoft Defender flags hosts files with Microsoft server redirects as malicious
The native antivirus client of the Windows 10 operating system, Microsoft Defender, has started to flag the hosts file on the system as malicious if it contains redirects for certain Microsoft servers. […]
Translate Web Pages brings Chrome-like translate functionality to Firefox
One of the first things that Google did introduce in its Chrome web browser was support for translating websites manually or automatically. The feature leveraged the company's own Google Translate service and […]
Firefox 81: PDF Reader gets form filling capabilities and more
Mozilla plans to launch several improvements to the PDF reader of the organization's Firefox web browser when the browser hits version 81 later this year. Besides design changes that bring the interface […]
Firefox users beware: CCleaner wipes Firefox extension settings by default
Firefox users who run the temporary file cleaner CCleaner on their systems may have noticed that extension settings are removed after running the program. The issue affects all recent versions of CCleaner […]
Open the location a photo was taken on Google Maps with these Windows tools
Sometimes, when you look at a particularly great photo, you may wonder where it was taken. While an image of the la tour Eiffel, the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Kremlin reveals […]
Unlock the features of Windows 10 version 20H2 right now
The next feature update for Windows 10, Windows 10 version 2009 or Windows 10 20H2, will be a smaller update once again. The benefit of this approach is that it takes less […]
Windows 10 version 2004 update KB4568831 released
Microsoft released a new update for the latest version of the company's Windows 10 operating system, Windows 10 version 2004. KB4568831 for Windows 10 version 2004 and Windows Server version 2004 is […]
Microsoft releases PowerToys 0.20 with Color Picker tool
Microsoft released a new version of its revived PowerToys collection of tools on July 31, 2020. The release brings the version to 0.20 and introduces a new Color Picker tool as well […]
Windows 10 Apps-killer app Bloatbox introduces handy scripts support
We reviewed the Windows 10 application Bloatbox earlier this month and found it to be an excellent app for Windows 10 administrators who like to remove some or even most of the […]
Google One apps' backup feature is now free on Android, but who is going to use it?
Google revealed yesterday that it unlocked the backup feature of its Google One for Android application so that all Google customers may use the backup even if they have no Google One […]