One of the issues with most touch-enabled devices on the market today is that they have a visible input lag when you work with them. According to research Microsoft conducted, the lag's […]
Youtube desktop players offer an alternative to opening the YouTube website in a web browser. There are surprisingly few applications available that let you play YouTube videos on the desktop. Miro comes […]
To mark the download of the 25 billionth app from the Apple App Store the company has released a series of all-time top 25 lists for app downloads. Unsurprisingly games are at […]
Facebook Messenger leaked back in December, and Facebook decided to keep the link active that was pointing to the program's download. Today, Facebook is officially releasing Messenger for Windows, promising that Mac […]
2012 or early 2013 will be the time I finally take the plunge and buy an Apple iMac. This might surprise those of you who know me as, being a Windows MVP […]
In the past year, Facebook and Microsoft have started to work closely together. Microsoft has for instance added Facebook to its recently purchased Skype software, and to the company's Bing search engine, […]
If you are a regular on the video hosting site YouTube, you might feel that the site is missing options to hide or remove videos. This can be interesting for subscription videos […]
By now you have probably read about Google's privacy policy changes that take effect today. Some of you may have deleted their web history and other Google history, or even migrated Google […]
The waiting and uncertainty are finally over and at long last all our questions will be answered as Microsoft are set to release the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (beta) later today during […]
Imagine the following scenario. You film how you are collecting ingredients for a wild salad, and upload the video to YouTube. You then get a copyright claim later on stating that the […]
I do not spend more than a few minutes of my time per day on social networking sites such as Google+, Facebook or Twitter. When I'm on there I like to get […]
One of the issues that you may have when searching for friends, family or people online is that you will get all sorts of results. Depending on the person's Internet activities and […]
The popular video hosting site YouTube up until now kept a log of all of the videos that you watched on the site while logged in to your YouTube or Google account. […]
The Wall Street Journal a few days ago described how Google and other advertising companies bypassed a user privacy feature of Apple's Safari browser to drop "ad-tracking cookies on [..] Safari users". […]
Microsoft initially planned to end support for some Windows Vista versions, Windows Home Basic and Ultimate for example, in April 2012. The effect would have been devastating for customers running those editions […]
Can websites find out if you are logged into Facebook, Twitter or Google+? That's what Tom Anthony wanted to find out. If third party websites could, it could be used for different […]
The cloud, that's where every big tech company under the sun is heading to. Cloud storage recently came into focus again with rumors that Google would launch their long awaited Google Drive […]
With the Windows 8 beta out next week and getting all the attention especially with it's integration of the company's Kinect technology, the rest of Microsoft's product line-up has taken a back […]
Unless you hadn't noticed, Microsoft are gearing up for the release of the Windows 8 (beta) Consumer Preview publicly in just over a week, but others, such as official beta testers and […]
Social networking sites may use the contents that you post on their sites in a variety of ways. They may sell them to advertisers, use them to personalize advertising on their sites, […]
Twitter users had an option to turn on https for their connections to the popular social messaging site for quite a while. Users who turned the feature on, benefited from encrypted communication […]
I've written a lot about Windows 8 over the last few days as we approach the release of the Consumer Preview at the end of this month. One subject that's not been […]
The search results layout on the video hosting website YouTube has a few usability issues. When you search on YouTube, you are presented with a long list of scrolling results. For each […]
It's not that long ago, really not a distant memory, when Microsoft were hauled before regulators in the US and Europe for several years over the anti-competitive practices of bundling Internet Explorer […]
Yesterday Microsoft finally announced their plans for Windows 8 running on ARM-designed processors. The news came with two very interesting pieces of information... "WOA (Windows on ARM) includes desktop versions of the […]
Rumors of Google Drive, or GDrive as it was named in the beginning, started to emerge at around the same time that the popular file synchronization and hosting service Dropbox opened its […]
The beta "Consumer Preview" version of Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system could be released on Wednesday 29th February. Microsoft have announced a "Windows 8 Consumer Preview event" in the city, that […]
Google Wallet is the name of Google's recently launched cell phone-based credit card payment system. The system uses Near Field Communication (NFC) to exchange data between the cell phone (that is containing […]
As soon as you start using the Internet, your actions are tracked by specialized companies. This not only includes web server logs but also third party tracking through advertisement, social networking scripts […]
In case you missed it, we've had a great Windows 8 discussion going on here at gHacks in the last couple of days, one that is no doubt set to continue for […]
Yesterday Martin wrote up his thoughts and concerns about the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft. I've spent much more time with Windows 8 so far, have given talks about and […]
Google is running yet another design test on their homepage currently. With the frequency of layout changes increasing, it feels as if the search giant does not really know what they really […]
News reached the world-wide-web last week that Microsoft Office 15 had reached the Technical Preview stage, and that a beta would be available this summer. That's all we know about the company's […]
Mediafire was one of the file hosting sites that benefited from the Megaupload take down in January 2012. The site managed to increase its traffic significantly and it appeared as if it […]
Last week Google announced changes to its privacy policy that, on the face of it seem perfectly reasonable. In essence they want to treat all the different Google services you use as […]
Users of Google's blog hosting service Blogger may notice quite a significant change in the coming weeks. Instead of being able to access blogs hosted on Blogger directly, they may now be […]
The messaging platform Twitter can be used to find out what is trending, and what is not. The more users talk tweet about a certain topic, the more popular it has to […]
It is widely expected that when Microsoft launch the Windows 8 beta in a few weeks that it will be labelled the "Windows 8 Consumer Preview". This has alarmed and concerned many […]
It seems like just a short while ago that I was writing about how Windows XP had just 1,000 days of support left but now that number is down to under 800! […]
Google recently revealed the plan to merge the privacy policies and terms of service for most of the company's products. This move gives all Google services direct access to all user data. […]
