With the recent announcement that Britain's largest cable Internet Service Provider Virgin Media will start warning its customers, or better the part they suspect to download files without having the proper rights […]
Microsoft did integrate search right across the operating system in Windows Vista but restricted access to Windows Search technologies only. Windows Search provided decent performance, but just wasn’t as fast or efficient […]
I wrote wrote a post last week about online desktops and gave what was in my opinion, the best three of the bunch. Some of you where pretty interested in the topic […]
In a post last week I talked about the growth of cloud computing and web based applications in relation to online desktops. Today I’ve got some amazing flash powered online tools to […]
Collaboration is one of the big buzz words these days on the Internet. In its most basic form it means users that create content together which would include most of the so […]
Are you as sick of hearing about Twitter as I am? See the problem is that I never really “got†Twitter… I tried, I really did. I signed up and followed people […]
Sometimes, you may urgently need to send a fax across to someone but you do not have access to a fax machine. If this is the case, don’t worry. File-hosting site drop.io […]
Innovation usually gets blocked or slowed down by monopolies. A company with barely any competition can make decisions that concentrate more on the profits and less on the satisfaction of their customers. […]
Most of you are probably aware of Flock, the social networking browser. I first read about Flock in a PC magazine a few years ago, and didn't really comprehend what the whole […]
You can do a lot more than simply changing your background and Screensaver in Windows Vista. Unfortunately you'll need some 3rd party applications to do it. Microsoft decided nearly a decade ago […]
I discovered a nice website running a script that you can use to create a CD or DVD paper case with. The most basic version of the CD paper case you can […]
A few years ago the idea of cloud computing seemed vaguely absurd to me. I infinitely preferred using desktop software to any kind of online alternative and I hated the idea of […]
MakoButton is a small application that can create buttons for Internet Explorer that launch external applications or URLs when you click on them. While the second option is not that useful in […]
Blogtastique is a new service by Daniel, one of the resident writers here at Ghacks, which can probably be best described as a service to help beginning and advanced bloggers. The basic […]
Reports are increasing in the last days where passengers had to give in to the demands of the boarding personal before they were allowed to board a flight. The first incident happened […]
1000 Kilogram are 1.3 cows, 5.6 female lions or 1 shire horse while 100000 kilogram equal 18 male African elephants and 7.1 Big Bens. The website Sensible Units (via Genbeta) converts boring […]
I'm a little bit of a font addict. Whenever I see a beautiful font in an image or on a website I have to find out which font it is to play […]
One way to save big at eBay is to find auctions that come with misspelled titles and descriptions. Someone selling a Playtation 3 will probably most likely earn less than someone who […]
A new version of Gmail was introduced a while ago by Google which added several new features, like color labels, to Gmail. So called Gmail 2 is accessible through a link in […]
A commenter on my recent article about a Firefox add-on that made it possible to open search results using the keyboard let me know that he would like to see a similar […]
Can you please hand over all electronic devices that you carry with you, Sir? I need to check them thoroughly for copyright infringing material, terrorist activity and pornography. Is that a video […]
I published an article just a few minutes ago that explained how you can read 20 digital magazines free of charge using the user agent of Apple's iPhone on desktop systems or […]
I'm not kidding, it can sometimes take me 10-20 minutes to figure out what to read. From a book's title you might not be able to derive anything from the story, and […]
That's a rather odd question, don't you think? I was always under the impression that browsers had to render websites correctly by being web standards compatible and not the other way round. […]
Artist Erik Nordenankar had an interesting idea for a self portrait. He would send a GPS device around the world to specified coordinates to draw the largest image the world has ever […]
If you do not like to create your own icons with a program like IcoFX Icon Editor you can use the Icon Look search engine instead which provides an easy to use […]
Most Instant Messengers have one serious disadvantage and that is that they are tied to a specific computer. If you are on another computer that is not your own you most likely […]
Pidgin is an Open Source multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that was formerly known as Prince Gaim. It works with many popular Instant Messaging clients like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo!. Normal conversations […]
One form of data mining is behavioral targeting which means that ads are served that fit into the surfing pattern of a user. Spending your time on teen forums will deliver advertisement […]
Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. This quote by one of the founding fathers of the United States dates back […]
This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips. Looking for an easy way to remove a background from one of your digital photos? Commercial […]
I am so hugely fond of Adobe Air apps right now because they are just so useful, easy to use and look so good. I also found a great site showcasing the […]
Tinyload is a web service that enables you to upload files to multiple file hosters on the Internet. The service limits individual files to 100 Megabyte which you can upload to a […]
I was always intrigued by isometric art for some reason. perhaps the simplicity of it all is the thing that gets to me, I don't know. To create it though, you either […]
Making any website temporarily appear the way you want instead of the way its designer meant it to is rather easy if you use Opera and (not quite necessarily) have at least […]
Google Earth is unbeatable when finding stuff, looking at the world, finding your route and so on, but it doesn't really give you information on what the places you see are like. […]
Feels like Geek-day today. After the virtual girlfriend article I present you another article that falls into the geeky but cute category. This time it's Papercraft Toys by Cubeecraft, a website that […]
I have seen my fair share of geeky stuff on the Internet but the Virtual Girlfriend definitely makes it straight to the top. Geeks don't have girlfriends, that's what people believe and […]
What's the first thing you do when your Internet connection is not working? I changed my reasoning from thinking that it was related to my computer to one that assumed the Internet […]
I've been quite fond of the Adobe Air environment for some time now, since it manages to achieve a lot I have been missing from traditional applications. First and foremost, many Air […]
