Firefox prefetching: what you need to know
The basic idea behind prefetching is to speed things up for the user.
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Magnetized review [Game Saturday]
Magnetized is a free Flash-based puzzle game that uses simple game mechanics to provide you with a wonderful and challenging experience.
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Search my Files 4.0 update brings secure file move feature
Search my Files by Karsten Funk, not to be confused with Nir Sofer's SearchMyFiles, was updated today to version 4.
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How to make the most out of Chrome's and Firefox's bookmarks bar
Are you using the bookmarks bar in your browser of choice or do you use another method to access bookmarks in the browser (or maybe none at all)? If you are usi
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All Samsung Windows PCs to be unified under the ATIV brand
If you look at Samsung's current PC lineup you will notice that the company is using quite a few brand names for its devices.
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Wikidata is a huge step for Wikipedia and the Internet
While Wikipedia is certainly the most prominent project of the Wikimedia Foundation, it is not the only one.
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Google releases Chrome Office Viewer, gets bad ratings
If you need to open Office documents on the Internet you have quite the arsenal of services at your disposal to do just that.
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After the Deadline cleans up your writing mistakes
I write for a living.
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Ubuntu 13.04 released: how to upgrade
Ubuntu 13.
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Virustotal update brings network traffic analysis support
It was not really clear in which direction Virustotal was heading after the acquisition of the service by Google was officially announced.
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Bookmarks icon gone in Firefox? Try this fix
I'm running the Nightly version of the Firefox web browser.
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Swype improves your typing speed on Android devices
How do you review an alternate software keyboard for Android efficiently? By taking it for a test drive of course.
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Mozilla finalizes proposal for changes to Firefox's customization options
The last week has been filled with uncertainty in regards to proposed Firefox customization changes in the wake of the Australis theme release.
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Windows: change the volume of sound automatically based on the time of day
Sometimes it is necessary to change the sound volume of a specific application or the system as a whole because you perceive it as either too low or too high fo
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BetterDesktopTool adds Mac Expose and Spaces to Windows
BetterDesktopTool is a Windows utility that brings macOS-style features like Exposé and Spaces to improve desktop organization.
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Steam client Beta update brings long-awaited download speed limiter
If you are running Steam on one of your systems and have ever bought a game that was downloaded from Steam servers, you know that you can't really manipulate th
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eBay app update for Android introduces Shopping Cart, single-payment feature
Having a shopping app at hand can be quite useful at times.
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Microsoft releases updated MS13-036 security patch
If you are following my coverage on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday here each month you have noticed that one of the patches that the company released this month caus
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Google Play welcomes Archie comics, offers introductory discount
Comic books have long been popular with the "geek" crowd, and were around long before the personal computer.
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Ignition optimizes file collections to fit them on the least amount of discs
Ignition is a free program for the Windows operating system that enables you to sort data into sizeable chunks automatically for improved CD/DVD burning.
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Word Stats: display too short or keyword absusing WordPress posts
With Google introducing that many algorithmic changes as well as other modifications to Google Search in the past two years, it has become difficul
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Walk me up! Alarm Clock for Android forces you to walk around to stop the alarm
I'm not evaluating unique alarm clock apps for Android even though it may seem that I do right now.
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The Pirate Bay Cleaner script improves the torrent site's accessibility
If you hang out a lot on The Pirate Bay website or visit it occasionally to find a torrent download link that you could not find anywhere else, you may have not
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Turn off Google Chrome's "Chrome - Notifications" icon in Windows
Google Chrome for some time now has displayed a notification icon in the system tray area that users could not remove at all.
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Chrome's Offline Cache Mode uses cached files automatically to fix "This webpage is not available" errors
I think we have all been in a situation where a website that we are currently browsing becomes unavailable from one moment to the next.
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Junkware Removal Tool uninstalls popular toolbars and unwanted software from your PC
It is probably fair to say that the majority of Windows users encountered toolbars in one way or the other.
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Get Word-like auto-correct feature in all Windows applications
Many programs that contain text editing components ship with a spell checker included that highlight words or phrases that you may have misspelled.
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Microsoft: AV-Test study that Bing serves 5x more malware is inaccurate
The German IT-Security institute AV-Test published the results of a test study earlier this month that analyzed search engine malware delivery.
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Mozilla posts second draft for Australis customization changes
Mozilla's first draft of a proposal in regards to customization changes in the organization's upcoming Australis theme for the Firefox web browser caused some u
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What does 'Kiosk Mode' mean to Windows 8.1?
Yesterday the latest build of Windows "Blue" leaked out onto the web in the form of build 9374.
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Microsoft releases Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 4.0 Beta
I have talked about Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (short EMET) before here on Ghacks and do not want to rehash everything that has already
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Hide or prolong Firefox's Downloads Complete notification
The Firefox web browser displays a notification on the system whenever downloads complete in the browser.
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Update your Kaspersky Rescue Disk automatically
Rescue discs are great as they provide you with the means to troubleshoot your computer if you cannot boot in to the installed operating systems anymore.
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Puzzle Alarm Clock makes sure you are really awake before it stops the alarm in the morning
Waking up in the morning has never been a real problem for me.
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Make constantly updating threads on Reddit more accessible
If you have followed Reddit's coverage, or shall I say discussion - of the Boston incident you may have noticed that a post on the site could easily accumulate
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Yahoo does a Google: retires several products
Yahoo Inc is in a different position than Google is.
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Don't like Chrome's new tab page? Change back to the old!
Change is not always a good thing and while I'm not anti-change at all, I only welcome it if it makes sense or aids me in a way or another.
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Wakey keeps your Android phone awake when activated
Most Android devices are set to turn off the screen after a certain time of inactivity.
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How to change Microsoft Paint's default save type
Microsoft Paint has no setting to change its default save type.
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Define when Firefox opens a new tab from the location bar
When you type in a web address into Firefox's location bar it gets loaded in the same tab, and when you enter a search term instead, say technology news, this t
