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.
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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
There are several ways that allow you to test Firefox 3 without interfering with Firefox 2 if that browser is also installed on your system. If you simply install the regular Firefox […]
When you download a file in Internet Explorer you get the option to run or save it. The run option however is not available in Firefox by default, you can only save […]
Google likes basic designs that just work. Take a look at their search engine or Gmail to know what I mean. Now you all know that I do not have a problem […]
You all know that I like to search for new wallpaper repositories and one that I found recently is hosted on the popular photo hosting and sharing community Flickr. What's even more […]
You can enter program names in the Windows run box and some of the applicationsmay recognized and executed. This does not work with all your applications however and maybe you'd like to […]
Have you ever asked yourself how much time other users are spending on your computer? Maybe you are a parent and want to check on the computer usage of your kids, maybe […]
Local Cooling is a software for Windows by the Uniblue Group. Everyone with either Windows XP or Windows Vista can download the application and start saving energy right now. The main interface […]
There is undoubtedly a trend of releasing music albums for free / for donations / for what individuals are willing to pay on the Internet. The last months were full of stories […]
Squash is a lightweight fast batch image resizer. I could end the article here because the previous sentenced is a good summary of what Squash offers you. Add multiple images to Squash, […]
I apologize if this topic drifts a bit away from the usual ones you find here at ghacks but I thought it would be extremely useful for everyone who has a server or webspace that supports htaccess and htpasswd. Htaccess files can do much more than just secure a directory on your server or website but I want to concentrate on this topic because it is something that I have been using on some of my websites for a very long time to increase security.
I'm not a huge fan of screensavers because I prefer that my system turns the monitor automatically off when I'm not working with it. The only purpose of screensavers in my opinion is to show of which is of course only useful if someone else sees the screensaver.
I was forced to change my Windows password frequently at my old job which sometimes led to the situation that I could not remember the new password on the next login. This […]
I'm an avid temporary file cleaner and I was delighted to find a link to the software Clear Temp at the Tip and Trick blog which was formerly known as My Digital […]
It's kinda funny. I was prepared to write about Regscanner all day long when I discovered that Kevin over at Lifehacker did post about the Nirsoft utility as well. If you have […]
Microsoft build in a system called Windows Integrity Controls into Windows Vista which is basically a label for files with that identify its trustworthiness. What makes them interesting is the fact that they override the visible permissions of a file or folder. Six levels of trust can be assigned to files of the same or a lower permission level. Meaning that a normal user is not able to change the integrity level of a file that he has no permission for.
I occasionally come upon a website that uses a font size that is either too large or to small and I usually adjust it with the mouse wheel while holding down the […]
What's a good way of catching the attention of someone who is advocating the use of biometrics? German interior minister Wolfgang Schäuble is pushing biometrics and data collection in Germany all for […]
Things are heating up over at the Creative forum where Creative Labs have issued a statement that forbids the user Daniel_K of providing X-FI sound card drivers for Windows Vista that fixed […]
That's probably the longest title that I've ever selected for an article here at Ghacks. A default Windows desktop contains several icons that have special "abilities" which stand in contrast to the […]
Alienware is probably best known for their high-end gaming computers and notebooks which always come in a futuristic great looking design. The AlienGUIse Theme Manager is custom version of My Colors from […]
This is an interesting experiment. I'm writing about the Firefox extension Zemanta while testing it at the same time. Zemanta is a tool for bloggers, it currently supports the blogging platforms Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress.com and self hosted Wordpress blogs. It adds suggestions and recommendations while you are writing an article by analyzing the content of the article.
Initially I wanted to write about a new Firefox add-on that I discovered recently but since I failed to download the add-on from the new Firefox add-ons website I decided to write […]
Working with several portable USB devices on one computer can be quite complicated when you consider that Windows is assigning the next free drive letter to a device that gets connected. This can lead to some confusion and a great tip that I would like to pass on is to assign USB drives to folders instead.
Installing the Nokia PC Suite on your computer has the side effect that a Nokia Phone Browser system folder is added to My Computer. I rarely connect my Nokia N73 phone to […]
I'm using the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox to access websites with a click - or two - of the mouse button. Space is limited there however and I'm using another way to […]
Big news all around the Internet that a nightly build of Webkit and an internal build of Opera have passed the Acid 3 test. Users who favor one of the browsers now […]
Every company seems to think that they have to port their applications to the Internet these days. Adobe is the latest to follow this trend with the release of Adobe Photoshop Express [link] which seems to be a combination of a photo album and imaged editing application. Don't expect it to be Photoshop on the web, it is not but it appears to be a solid web application with a nice interface.
The Customize Google Firefox add-on [link] has been making some huge leaps in the last year and it's time to take another look at it. The basic use of this add-on for […]
Microsoft published a release notes page together with the download of Windows XP Service Pack 3. The first part of the release notes lists the new and previously available functionality in the […]
Your P2P experience can change drastically depending on the Internet Service Provider that you use to connect to the Internet. Some providers use technical measures to throttle the Bittorrent traffic of their […]
Have you ever wondered how criminals who hacked, phished or stole Credit Card information sell them later on? I mean, where would you go and sell the stuff and where would a […]
Get a Freelancer is a website that brings together webmasters and freelancers. I have been using the service twice in the last two months and liked it that much that I thought […]
I'm not using playlists normally when I want to listen to music. I either tune in to some Internet Radio station or drop a folder full of music on my favorite music […]
What's the best way to fight illegal downloads and streams of your tv shows ? It could be to offer them for free on an official website. That's probably the same line of thoughts that the creators of South Park had when they created a website called South Park Studios together with Comedy Central.
My Casio Exilim digital camera is naming every picture CIMGxxxx.jpg with xxxx being a number between 1 and 9999. This naming convention makes it quite hard to find out any details about […]
I'm the family's computer guy and it is slowly spreading to family friends and even neighbors as well thanks to recommendations of family members. Recently my mum told my grandmother's neighbors that […]
A new version of Revo Uninstaller was just released and I thought it would be nice to inspect the new version since my last review dates a while back. Several new features […]
Microsoft likes to make things complicated from time to time it seems. When you right-click a file, folder or search result in Windows Vista you get the normal command menu with options to open, edit or print the marked objects. If you happen to press shift while right-clicking you will also notice that a new option has been added to the menu which is called Copy to Path.
I just realized that my last Wallpaper website recommendation dates a while back and thought it would be nice to give everyone the opportunity to add some new wallpapers to their collection. […]
Thunderbird is my mail software of choice even though I do have various webmail accounts. I simply prefer my mail to be on my computer and not on a server somewhere on the Internet. I run a fairly customized version of Thunderbird and I would like to share five advanced Thunderbird tips with you that I implemented in my version.
