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
Having considered buying an Asus Eee PC I must admit that I never thought that the models could have more differences than just the color. I would have never assumed that the […]
What's the first thing you do when your Internet connection is not working? I changed my reasoning from thinking that it was related to my computer to one that assumed the Internet […]
It is extremely important for some businesses and individuals to have the latest weather information at hand. These weather information can be retrieved numerous way, for example by listening to Radio, watching […]
Microsoft's Small Business Center is offering six free design families for Microsoft Office 2007 that can be downloaded directly from the promotional website. A design family is simply a collection of several […]
I really like to watch presentations and demonstrations about technology, especially on the TED website but also on other websites. I recently stumbled upon a presentation for Microsoft's Touchwall, an inexpensive rear-projection […]
Soundamus (via Feed my App) is a web service that is using Last.fm userdata to generate an RSS feed of upcoming and new releases of artists that you listen to. All that's […]
Want to send a video to your friend that you found on Youtube only to find out that Youtube is blocked at his school or workplace or that the video is not […]
I read Stefan's review of the Firefox Brief today which I found interesting in itself. I did learn about dynamic bookmarks in Firefox from the article on top of it. I have […]
Torrent2Exe is a small application that takes any torrent file as input and converts the file to a tiny Bittorrentexecutable file. The Bittorrent protocol has gone a long way since its beginning, […]
Domain Finder is not your usual domain search engine that performs a search on the word that you type in by appending different domain extensions to it. It is also not one […]
The Windows Registry is not defragmented if you defragment your hard drive. This can be quite a problem for users who regularly install and uninstall applications on their system because uninstallers tend […]
Learning can be fun. I would not have believed that sentence when I was young and had to go to school but nowadays I have to admit that it can indeed be […]
Fotosizer is a program for Microsoft Windows devices to resize and edit pictures that is available as a free standard edition and a professional edition. Image Resizers are available by the dozen […]
Windows 7 News posted an interesting video about some of the upcoming features in Microsoft's next operating system Windows 7. The video is showing some of the new features that have already […]
Changing the language in Windows Vista can be quite a problem depending on the available edition of Windows Vista. By default it is not possible to change the language of menus, dialog […]
Backing up your email accounts regularly is a pretty important task and a safety measure in case something goes wrong and you cannot access the account anymore. Most users collect emails over […]
If you are in school you have to learn vocabulary all the time. First in your native language and later on in other languages. A vocabulary trainer aids the pupil in learning […]
Polymath send in the tip that another Antivir promotion is available that gives users access to Antivir premium for 180 days free of charge. The promotion form is available in English and […]
Timetube is a Youtube mashup that creates a timeline of Youtube videos related to a keyword that the user is searching for. The time period can be altered from 1 day to […]
EToolz is a free portable program for Windows that you can use to run network related queries such as Ping, Trace or Whois in an easy to use interface. You may sometimes […]
I'm slowly changing my view on several aspects of my "geeky" life. I used to jump on bandwagons as soon as someone started reporting about the latest evil scheme of a big […]
In the last days I have been looking for a Firefox extension that would make it possible to open multiple bookmarks (and History items) at once. What I mean with this is […]
A friend of mine has created his own huge home network with several computers throughout the house. Some act as servers, for example file servers and one of them is being used […]
Sticky Notes programs come in the dozens these days and it's more a matter of taste than everything else that decides which of the applications is in use by a user. I'm […]
Just a day ago we have reported that Electronic Arts had plans to publish some of their upcoming PC blockbuster titles with a new Securom copy protection, that would validate the game […]
You all know that I build a new computer recently and set it up properly by installing most software on it that I used on my old windows machine. A quick Task […]
Not all Firefox add-ons get the news coverage that they deserve. Some are mentioned on every tech site in the world while others are known to only a handful of Firefox users […]
Update: Bruno Miguel pointed out that the official Asus website for Australia lists different information. Both Windows and Linux EeePC 900 will have the same 20 Gigabyte storage capacity. The Windows model […]
DP Secure Wiper is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to delete files and folders securely from the operating system. If you are like us, you have a healthy dose of […]
I normally use the Windows clock if I need to time something and it does not really matter if it is PC related or not. If it's in the same room I […]
CD to HTML is a free software program for Windows that you may use to create an HTML file listing directory and file information. You can select any directory as the root […]
Copying texts and other elements of a website in Firefox always includes the format of the elements. This means that a text with a headline will exactly look alike after pasting it […]
How would you feel about a game that needs an active Internet connection to verify the serial number ? How about a game that would have to do that every ten days […]
Do you suspect your ISP to be throttling Bittorrent traffic ? That the ISP is shaping traffic which reduces your upload and download bandwidth when using the Bittorrent network ? Want proof […]
I finally updated my old Nero 7 to the latest Nero version and tried to get rid of as many unnecessary Nero applications as possible during installation. To be honest, I only […]
I have experienced some erratic unexplainable behavior lately after I installed a couple of applications on a computer system running the Windows operating system. After some digging around in the depths of […]
It is sometimes required to run a command or software as another user in Windows. Say you followed the advice that is posted on many sites to work with a regular user […]
I'm very proud to announce that the first two t-shirt designs for Ghacks have been finally completed and are now available in the Splitreason Online Store. You can take a look at […]
I have to admit that I do not need to synchronize multiple folders that often. If you do you could take a closer look at Horodruin which can synchronize as many folders […]
SMPlayer is my video player of choice. It comes with the most commonly used video and audio codecs installed and it is quite uncommon that one runs into a video that cannot […]
