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
Apple iPhone users can access the Internet free of charge through AT&T hotspots, that's what Macrumors is reporting. That's a great additional feature for iPhone users and apparently for everyone else as […]
At the beginning of each month, when the new pc magazines are published, a flood of free commercial application posts hits the blogosphere. It is practically impossible to avoid these articles but […]
The Windows firewall in Windows Vista and newer versions of Windows cannot be disabled or enabled quickly. A user who wants to enable or disable it would have to open the Control […]
Some websites, especially commercial ones, try to increase their pageviews (and thus also advertising revenue) by separating single articles onto several pages. A user who wants to read the complete article has […]
No more games I said. And still, this one is just to good to pass on. I already wrote about it on my new games blog Take9 but since it's relatively new […]
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is a free application for the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP that provides functionality to edit the photo's metadata. Metadata are information that are automatically […]
I spend the morning at a house of a friend who bought a new computer and wanted some of his data transferred from the old computer that he was using to the […]
You can automatically hide the taskbar in Windows so that it only becomes visible if you move your mouse over the area where it is hidden. This is extremely practical if you […]
Update: Skype released mobile clients for Android and iPhone, the two dominating mobile operating systems, and Windows 10 Mobile. Downloads are provided on the official Skype website. The information below is not […]
Randy was commenting on today's article about the use of several Firefox profiles and pointed out that he would love a list of the security add-ons that I'm using in my secure […]
I was astonished to see a dip in the amount of feed readers in the last days and decided to investigate the matter. It has happened in the past that Feedburner did […]
Most Firefox users work only with one Firefox profile. Well, this should not surprise a lot because one profile is, of course, sufficient for most tasks. Plus, the whole profile management functionality […]
The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (Cofee) is a USB thumb-drive developed by Microsoft that was distributed to more than 2000 law-enforcement officers in 15 countries including the United States, Germany, New […]
Photo mosaics look beautiful if they use small enough images or if you are have enough distance to the mosaic to enjoy it fully. The mosaics are called photo mosaics because photos […]
I think that the following hosting offer can be interesting to some users. I have to admit that I'm not using the hosting at one.com because I run my own dedicated server […]
Renaming multiple files can be quite a challenging task in Windows. It surely does not make much sense to rename hundreds of files manually, it would literally take ages to rename all […]
I did make two large purchases in the last two days. I finally ordered my new computer yesterday, or better the parts for the new computer, and cannot wait to build it […]
then you have come to the right article. If I would ask you to name five browsers, which would you mention ? Most likely Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari as the first […]
Giggle released a beta version of their music and event recommendation software that currently works only with Apple's iTunes software and the event recommendations seem to be exclusively for locations in Great […]
I'm often amazed by the videos that are offered at the TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design) website. Today I saw a very interesting demonstration by researcher Johnny Lee who was […]
I was beginning to think that the time of the free promotional keys was gone when I spotted yet another promotion at Tip and Trick. This time it is possible to get […]
I seldom run into an application that is as hard to describe as Shell Enhancer. When you install the application you can configure some settings of it and I was really blown […]
The Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released to the public tomorrow. A lot of users have already downloaded the service pack from various locations like download portals and the Bittorrent […]
Some of you may have encountered spyware, viruses or trojans on your system that spawn another process whenever you attempt to kill it so that it seems impossible to kill a process […]
I was rather skeptical of Adobe Air when it was first announced thinking of just another desktop application that no one would ever need or want. Surprisingly though this is changing quite […]
Many Firefox extensions add their own entries to the Firefox configuration that you can access by typing about:config in the address bar of Firefox, or by opening the file prefs.js directly from […]
Fileseek is another application developed by the creator of Display Fusion, one of the best multi-monitor wallpaper applications in existence. The software is a file search tool that can be seen as […]
Studio Twenty Eight is the homepage of designer Javier Ocasio who is offering his services and also some of his visual styles, wallpapers and icons on the site. Each category contains a […]
I read about Mbbit when it was first introduced on several websites but never checked it out until now because I did not find a web based IRC client that appealing. I […]
If you take a look at the online tutorials on DVD ripping you find some that require five or six different tools to rip a single DVD. Thankfully though it is possible […]
Foxit Reader 2.3 supports tabs, that was the headline on many blogs that I read regularly, for instance at Cybernet News and Download Squad. My first thought was that surely no one […]
Recording Internet Radio is not a new invention, several programs offer this ability for years. I'm thinking of Streamripper, Screamer Radio or XMPlay which all have functionalities to record music from Internet […]
After the publicity that the launch of Stage6 clone Divxit caused it was clear that the new company would sooner or later run into troubles with the Divx company. Not so much […]
Oh not, not another process manager. I hear you, really. But Bill2's Process Manager is something special, at least I think it is. It is optimized for multi core systems and compatible […]
Are you addicted to to social networks like Twitter or Friendfeed ? If you are you might be interested in the Adobe Air application Alert Thingy which combines data from three popular […]
I can't really say how many apps and tools for Windows provide you with the functionality to display the temperature of your cpu, graphics card or hard drives. I have been using […]
The Opera team has finally revealed the missing pieces of the puzzle and explained in an email what Opera Dragonfly is. In short, Opera Dragonfly is a web developers tool that gives […]
Stage 6 was a highly successful video portal created and maintained by the creators of the DIVX codec to showcase among other things the power and quality of the DIVX codec. This […]
Why would someone pay for sending an SMS if he could send it for free on the Internet ? He should be sitting next to a computer of course but if the […]
Did you ever run into a Vietnamese tool for Windows? I did just a few minutes ago. I read the article about Reg Toy at the Download Squad website and made the […]
