Welcome to this month's overview of the Microsoft December 2015 Patch Day. The guide provides you with relevant information about all security and non-security patches that Microsoft released since the November 2015 […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint with the FCC yesterday about Google "deceptively tracking students" that participate in Google's Apps for Education program. Google Apps for Education (Gafe) is a […]
Amazon Studios released Storywriter today, a free cloud-based screenwriting application that anyone with an Amazon account can use. Internet companies like Amazon or Netflix started the production of original series and movies […]
Two-Step Verification is a popular method to improve the security of accounts by adding another verification step to the authentication process. It blocks attackers from accessing the account with the password alone, […]
Google relaunched its social networking service Google+ on Tuesday by putting an emphasis on features that users of the service are interested in. Google removed several features from Google+ in the recent […]
Google's About Me page enables you to manage Google account information that are publicly available on the Internet. Whenever you create a social media account, and sometimes others as well, you expose […]
Welcome to the Microsoft Windows patch overview for November 2015. The guide provides you with relevant information about all security and non-security patches that Microsoft released for Windows and other company products […]
Google announced a new feature today that it is launching in Inbox by Gmail tomorrow that it calls Smart Reply. The feature is designed to predict replies to display those as options […]
Microsoft announced yesterday that it will make changes to the storage plans of its online file hosting and synchronization service OneDrive and to OneDrive storage given to Office 365 subscribers. The changes […]
Have you ever shared links to Google Search results before? If you have, you may have noticed that the url pointing to the search results page contains several other parameters besides the […]
Google began to implement SSL on its search engine back in 2010. First on its own domain name, then as a mandatory feature for logged in Google users, and after a while […]
Facebook announced the launch of Search FYI yesterday, an update to the social network's traditional search tool that lets users search Facebook's complete index of posts. According to Facebook, it has indexed […]
Google revealed the much-anticipated subscription service YouTube Red official at an event in Los Angeles today. YouTube Red, which will launch officially on October 28, will be a subscription-based service that provides […]
Yahoo announced today the roll-out of new mobile versions of the company's Mail application that introduce new features such as multi-mailbox management and password-less sign-ins among other things. The company launched on-demand […]
Voice & Audio Activity is a feature of Google History that Google users can access to list and listen to voice recordings that they have sent to Google. While I'm not actively […]
The Microsoft Patch overview for October 2015 provides you with detailed information about security and non-security patches and advisories that Microsoft released in the past 30 days for Microsoft Windows and other […]
Google announced the roll out of a new advertising tool recently on the company's official Adwords blog that allows companies to target users based on email addresses. The system, called Customer Match, […]
Gmail is without doubt one of the better platforms when it comes to automatic spam detection and prevention. While that is the case, there are still situations where spam may slip through […]
Advertisement is one of Facebook's primary revenue sources. You may see ads on your Facebook News Feed, mobile apps and other locations on the site. Businesses create these ads on Facebook and […]
The patch day overview for September 2015 provides you with everything you need to know in regards to security and non-security patches that Microsoft released this month. It begins with an executive […]
When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be freely available for a year, one focus of the discussion that ensued afterwards concentrated on the company's attempt to lure users with the free […]
This is the Microsoft patch overview for August, 2015. It reviews all security and non-security patches that the company has made available for its Windows operating system and other company products. The […]
Google ads are nearly everywhere: when you search, read emails, watch videos,use mobile devices and in lots of other places. The "Control your Google ads" website gives you control over the advertisement […]
Google announced today that it made the decision to untie the bond between its social networking service Google+ and YouTube. In addition, Bradley Horowitz, VP of Streams, Photo and Sharing mentioned on […]
Google is rolling out a new Google Maps features currently that it calls "Your Timeline". The new feature lets you revisit where you have been and how you got there using the […]
Facebook is one of the largest video hosting websites on today's Internet and while YouTube is without doubt the uncrowned king of recorded videos today, it is catching up fast and benefiting […]
Reports started to come in today that Google has penalized one of the world's most popular torrent indexing websites Kickass Torrents. Penalized in this case means that the site is nowhere to […]
Welcome to the July 2015 patch overview that reviews all security and non-security patches that Microsoft released this month for Microsoft Windows and other company products. This is the last Patch Tuesday […]
If you have been to Twitter recently you may have noticed an auto-playing video on the site. Twitter, just like Facebook earlier, introduced auto-playing videos to the site recently. Auto-play has been […]
When Google launched Google Photos a while ago, it introduced an option to store an unlimited number of photos and videos in the cloud using the service. While limited to 16 Megapixel […]
This page offers detailed information about Microsoft's June 2015 Patch Day. The company releases security patches for its Windows operating system as well as other company products on the second Tuesday of […]
Yahoo Inc. announced the shut down of several company products including Yahoo Maps and Pipes yesterday. Yahoo Pipes, which we first covered back in 2008 here on Ghacks, is one of the […]
Google's new Photos application and service has seen favorable reviews across the board. It is offering unlimited photo and video storage on Google servers provided that photos are not larger than 16 […]
Google launched the new Photos application and web service yesterday as a standalone service cutting its link to the company's own Google+ social networking service in the progress. Unlimited free storage for […]
Google rolls out the new Photos application currently for Android and iOS currently which breaks the app away from the company's social networking service Google+ without cutting the connection completely. While apps […]
If you have opened the My Account management page on Google today you may have noticed that it has been redesigned completely by the company. The easiest way to access the page […]
You have plenty of options if you want to share files with friends on the web version of Facebook. The two core options the site provides are to share files using Facebook […]
Google Maps' directions feature works considerably well most of the time. It can be quite useful to plan a trip but also when you missed an exit or need to re-route, as […]
If you have signed in to your Google account on the Gmail website or other Google properties recently you may have noticed that the sign-in process has changed. Google split the sign-in […]
This page offers an overview of Microsoft's May 2015 patch day. The guide provides you with information about each security bulletin that was released today as part of the the update day. […]
