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Get Your White Noise, Sleep Sounds Fix On YouTube

I'm always on the look out for free white noise and sleep sounds. This explains the number of articles that I have written about that particular topic over the years. Some of […]

Track Microsoft Support Requests With Fix It Center Pro

Microsoft Fix It Center Pro is a web application for Windows Live users that is aiding users in the identification and troubleshooting of PC issues. Windows users should not confuse the service […]

Beware: Facebook Messenger Reveals Locations, Introduces Read Confirmations

Facebook is currently rolling out an update for its Facebook Messenger apps for iOS and Android, that is bringing new features to the clients that will surely cause some controversy. One of […]

No DVD Playback Support in Windows 8's Windows Media Player

Microsoft has just announced their plans for Windows Media Center, the company's full screen media interface. Windows Media Center includes tool to watch and record TV broadcasts, and options to watch videos, […]

Facebook Auto-Logout for Firefox Makes Sure You Are Logged Out Of Facebook

Staying logged in after using Facebook, or any other Internet service for that matter, is more comfortable than having to remember to log out of the social networking site every time you […]

How To Open CSV Files On Google Docs

If you do not have Microsoft Excel, or an Open Source counterpart like Open Office or Libre Office installed, and you have a csv file that you need to open, you may […]

Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop App For Windows and Mac Launched

The cloud space is buzzing with activity lately.  First we had an update to Microsoft SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage offering, with improved file upload size support and the SkyDrive for desktop app […]

Microsoft To Rebrand Windows Live Product Line For Windows 8 Launch

Windows 8 is not only the first Microsoft operating system that breaks with the traditional way of working with Windows, thanks to its Metro interface, but also one that is introducing new […]

Bing Cleans Up Its Search Results Page

One of the core points of criticism that I have when it comes to Google Search, is the cluttered search results page. When you search for something on Google, you get lots […]

How To Use Gmails Email Translate Feature

Automatic email translations have been available on Google Mail for some time as parts of Gmail Labs. Users who have activated the feature in their account, were able to make use of […]

How to Stop Two YouTube Videos From Playing Simultaneously

If you have ever opened two web pages with embedded Youtube videos you know that it can happen that both videos start buffering and playing at the same time. That's obviously a […]

YouTube Video History Monitor and Notifier for Chrome

With so many YouTube extensions available for all web browsers, it is hard to come by an original add-on that brings something to the table that the majority of extensions do not […]

FancyTube Adds Much Needed Features To YouTube for Chrome

For the world's most popular video hosting site, YouTube is really short on options and settings that it provides to its users. While that may be one of the secrets of the […]

Google Drive May Give Access To Full Google Account

Google Drive is Google's cloud storage service that has been making the rounds on the Internet ever since it launched a few days ago. It basically gives every Google user who signs […]

How To Benefit From Google Account Activity Reports

A compromised Internet account could have disastrous consequences. From deleted data to impersonations and malicious activities, it is all possible once access to an account has been gained by third parties. For […]

Google Rolls Out Search Update To Combat Web Spam

As a webmaster, I'm often affected by updates to Google's search algorithm. Updates that try to resolve issues with low quality sites, web spam or sites that are tampering with the system […]

Flickr Update Brings Faster HTML5 Powered Uploader

Anyone using the Flickr photo hosting website here? Flickr just announced an update to the service's photo uploader that is improving things significantly for Flickr users from all over the globe. Probably […]

Google Drive for PC

It took less than 24 hours before I received the message that Google Drive had been enabled for my Google account. Once Google Drive is active, users can access files online on […]

Google Drive Launches With 5 Gigabytes Of Free Storage

Google's file hosting and synchronization service Google Drive is here, at least for some users as the service seems to be rolling out gradually right now. The Google Drive homepage is live, […]

Google Drops Another Batch Of Services, Products

Google has dropped a number of services in the past six month period. From Google Sky Map and Picnik, Google Buzz or Knol and Gears. Yesterday's announcement marks the beginning of the […]

SkyDrive Gets ODF Support, More Features Ahead of Google Drive Launch

Days before Google's official entry in the cloud hosting space (see Google Drive announcement here) comes Microsoft's announcement that they have improved their cloud hosting service SkyDrive. The service now supports file […]

Web of Trust May No Longer Display Google Ad Trust Ratings

The Web of Trust team is reporting that a Google policy change is affecting the display of the service's trust ratings on Google. As it stands now, trust ratings are only displayed […]

Microsoft Working on Skype For The Web

It was clear that Microsoft had to have big plans with the Skype voice over IP software after it became known that the company paid $8.5 billion Dollars for the technology and […]

YouTube Black Theme, A Dark-Style for YouTube

Not every YouTube visitor loves the new layout and design of the popular video hosting website. You may remember that the design has been changed not long ago, moving subscriptions and channels […]

Facebook Should Build Their Own Browser? I Do Not Think So

Ben Parr over at Cnet believes that Google will eventually win the social networking battle against Facebook thanks to the success of the company's Google Chrome web browser.  The argument goes something […]

Bing To Charge For Search API Calls

Microsoft's search engine Bing did not charge third party developers for search api calls until now; this allowed developers with large, small and no budget at all to make use of the […]

Microsoft IE10, Office 15 Roadmap Leaks

We know that Microsoft will release a number of updates to existing products in the next twelve month period. From a new version of the Windows operating system to the next Internet […]

Download an Expanded Facebook Archive

For some time now Facebook users can download their archive to their computer.  This includes the photos or videos that were shared on Facebook, the wall posts, messages and chat conversations, as […]

To Much Whitespace On Google+? Reduce It!

If you are already seeing the new design over at Google's social networking site Google+, you may have noticed the vast amount of whitespace on the site. This is especially apparent if […]

Publish, Read News With Google Currents

Ghacks readers from the United States may have already come into contact with Google Currents, Google's news aggregation service for mobile devices. Back then Google the Currents app for Android and iOS […]

Google+ April 2012 Redesign Rolling Out

If you have been to Google's social networking site Google+ in the last few hours, you may have spotted design changes on some pages or profiles that may have made you wonder […]

Restore Old Facebook Profiles With Timeline Remove for Chrome

The reception of Facebook's Timeline profile design has been highly controversial so far, with part of the userbase rejecting it. With Facebook rolling out the new profile design for everybody, there is […]

Twitter Sues Twitter Spam Tool Providers

Twitter in its current form is abused by spammers, usually with the help of automated tools that support multiple profiles, auto following and posting, custom messages and a lot of other goodies […]

Newsmap, A Google News Visualization

Newsmap is a visualization mashup for Google News. When you visit the site, you will be greeted with a colorful display of news items posted in various sizes on the frontpage of […]

Bing Video Search Updated With Larger Previews

A big difference between video searching on Google and Bing is Bing's video preview feature which can display previews right on the Bing search results page for videos hosted on select sites […]

Microsoft and Apple working on Secret Anti-Google Cloud OS

Nobody really foresaw the rise of Google as an operating system maker and though it's not all been successful for the company (got a Chromebook anyone?) on tablets and smartphones nobody can […]

MetroTwit 1.0 Released, Now With Windows 8 Support

The Twitter homepage is not really the most comfortable place to manage your tweets, followers and read tweets and messages by other users. One of the restrictions for instance is that you […]

Popular YouTube Userscripts to improve the viewing experience

Userscripts can improve the individual experience on the video hosting site YouTube tremendously. They can basically change every aspect of the site, from its layout to new functionality that a lot of […]

YouTube Launches One-click Video Improvements

If you do not have the time or skill to edit your videos locally before you upload them to the popular video hosting site YouTube, you'd probably grew fond of the video […]

Microsoft Slash TechNet Product Keys from 10 to 5 to 3

In September 2010, citing concerns over piracy, Microsoft slashed the number of product keys available to subscribers of its TechNet service from 10 per product down to 5.  This caused some arguments […]