Adobe has just released the official Adobe Reader application for Windows 8. You can download the app from the built-in store both on Windows RT and Windows 8 systems. It is basically […]
Remember Boxcryptor? The program, available for various operating systems including Windows and Android can encrypt files that you synchronize with online storage solutions like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and other cloud storage […]
Sometimes you may want to burn video files that you have on your PC to DVD or another disc format to play them on a DVD player connected to the television or […]
Are you using Mozilla Personas to install custom themes in the browser or maybe even an add-on like Personas Plus that gives you greater control over the built-in feature? If you do […]
So Real released RealPlayer 16, an update to a media player that has been around for a very long time. If you are asking users who have been around for a while […]
The last Patch Tuesday of the year has arrived and it brings along seven security bulletins that fix vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Five of the seven bulletins have a maximum severity rating […]
Google Drive is Google's cloud hosting service that all Google account owners can use to store and sync data. Free users get 5 Gigabyte of online space and a couple of applications […]
A new version of the popular blogging software WordPress has just been released. WordPress 3.5 "Elvin" introduces a new default theme, Twenty Twelve, and better media handling among other new features. The […]
Anyone here still using Yahoo! Mail? I still have a Yahoo email account from back in the days when people used Yahoo's homepage as their homepage and Yahoo search for finding stuff […]
Search engine companies like Google or Bing seem to think that presenting searchers with a list of ten results per page is not enough anymore to stay ahead of the curve. Google […]
Make it three in a row (I'm talking about Twitter posts). So, Instagram apparently decided to pull photo tweets from Twitter, which basically means that you need to click through to the […]
Two Twitter news in less than 24 hours here on Ghacks, that is a new record. The company yesterday announced that it would unleash its new profile page on all users of […]
I'm probably the only tech blogger in the universe who is not using Twitter as a way of communicating with his audience or sending out tweets about new blog posts and stuff […]
CDBurnerXP is a free disc burning software for Windows that has been around for quite some time. I think I first came into contact with the program when Nero started to add […]
Late last week Google announced that it would no longer offer it's free Google Apps accounts. If you already had one then there is no reason to worry -- you are grandfathered […]
Opera, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome, that's it what the Windows browser landscape currently consists of. There are a couple of other browsers, like Seamonkey, SRWare Iron or Maxthon, but even if […]
Classic signature-based antivirus solutions do not protect systems effectively. Even if you add heuristics to the signature-based protection, you end up with a system that is protected, but not against all possible […]
The majority of computer users use weak passwords when they register for online services, create Windows accounts and other activities that require them to pick a password. The only situation where a […]
Google's Chrome browser ships with a minimalistic layout by default which many users find beneficial as less chrome means more screen estate for the websites that you open in the browser. If […]
If you are not using Facebook for the apps and games the service makes available, but for staying in contact with a couple of close friends, colleagues and family, you may not […]
When you register a new account on a website or service you are usually asked to provide it with an email address. You may receive a verification email after the registration, or […]
Discount codes are a great way of saving money while shopping online. What you get from entering codes can vary, from free shipping to discounts that lower the price of an item. […]
When Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google started to enter the cloud hosting and synchronization market I was not sure if smaller players in the market were able to survive in the long […]
When you visit YouTube to watch a couple of videos that have been uploaded to the site, and who does not nowadays, you may have noticed that the site lacks a couple […]
Update: Facebook started to use Nokie's Here mapping service in 2015 on mobiles and is using it on desktop devices as well. The extension to replace the current mapping provider with a […]
WordPress may very well be the most popular software on the web these days, but most users don't know it. Why? Because it is the behind-the-scenes platform that is powering the sites […]
When I tried to install a Google Chrome extension in the latest dev version of the web browser I was notified that an error had occured. The message below that stated that […]
The Internet is a great place to find product related information, instructions, tutorials and even full scanned manuals which are usually provided in pdf format. What many Internet users may not know […]
You may have noticed that Google has launched a new layout for YouTube, one that is using a near white background and a design that is aligned to the left side of […]
Having to unlock your car door in a parking spot with bad lighting, or the door to your house, or having to search for something that you have dropped in the dark, […]
Many websites and services use Google Analytics to track user interaction (we don't). The data provides webmasters with a wealth of information, from keywords that users entered into search engines over time […]
All modern web browsers come with download capabilities, and while those are getting the job done, they usually fail when it comes to management and advanced features. Download managers like Internet Download […]
One of the main complaints that many gamers have in regards to Valve Software's popular Steam gaming platform is the limitation to one installation directory and partition. While you can use some […]
PowerShell is a command line scripting language for Windows that Microsoft has designed with system administrators in mind. It empowers Windows users to control and automate administrative tasks on systems running Windows. […]
Android apps that you have installed from Google's Play store update automatically, usually. It is a background process that you have no control over. While you find information about updates later in […]
I have tested many WordPress antispam plugins here on Ghacks, from Akismet which is more or less the standard plugin for many sites to plugins such as AntiSpam Bee and a couple […]
Why is is that many computer users do not take better care of their systems security-wise? I think the main reason for that is that security does not matter for as long […]
There are a couple of things you can do to protect your wireless network against freeloaders and intruders. Probably the best thing right now is to make sure it is protected by […]
Since it is likely that you store all your data on hard drives, it is important to make sure they run properly to avoid running into issues during operation. A hard drive […]
Exploit mitigation is slowly moving into the focus of security companies as attacks targeting zero day vulnerabilities are rising. One of the things to remember here is that most attacks exploits vulnerabilities […]
