It is a good idea to backup your Firefox profiles regularly to have options at hand when a profile needs to be restored. This can be the case after a hard drive […]
With today's release of Opera 11.50 comes a new feature that turns the static new tab page into a dynamic page. Speed Dial Extensions work basically like standard add-ons with the difference […]
The computing industry is unlike any other in the way that it divides people into one camp or another. People sometimes become fanatical about the way they follow one company, and they […]
Despite releasing Opera 11.50, Opera seems to be one of the few browser developing companies left that have not yet jumped to an accelerated release cycle that shoots browser versions through the […]
If you are using a mouse, trackball, or touchpad with extra buttons in Windows, chances are the manufacturer has created software to configure the buttons. Rarely do they create such software for […]
OSForensics is a commercial computer forensics package for the Windows operating system that reveals a plethora of information about the underlying PC. Update: OSForensics is no longer available as a free version. […]
Tomorrow Microsoft launch their new Office 365 business cloud platform integrating email, calendaring, office, sharepoint and intranets with communications and messaging. It's a big platform with a big future ahead of it […]
I have configured the Windows 7 Control Panel to display small icons instead of the unpractical categories that hide most of the tools and items. The main reason is that it provides […]
Many people tend to collect a lot of one thing or another – some people really enjoy a large media collection, others have hundreds of different model trains. What some fail to […]
When you are trying to customize Microsoft's latest web browser Internet Explorer 9 you are limited by the configuration options, called Internet Options in the browser. Those options have not really changed […]
Opera and Google are already doing it, so why should not we. That's probably the reasoning behind Mozilla's latest move to optimize the interface of the Firefox web browser. For those who […]
I'm slowly getting the hang out of the video editing software VirtualDub. I recently ran into troubles with music for a video. The video had a playtime of 14 minutes which meant […]
It is super easy to take a single screenshot or video, for instance for a blog post, tutorial or presentation. It gets a little bit complicated when you want to take multiple […]
I have been dabbling in the video recording, editing and publishing field lately. One of the latest things that I had to get my head around was a black bar problem on […]
In the past weeks, I have started to work with the video editing software VirtualDub to prepare videos before uploading them to the video hosting site YouTube. I learned a lot in […]
As we get closer to the official release of the first major update for Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, more details of features are emerging, and some of them are looking extremely useful […]
If you are looking for a bit of variety when it comes to your system's desktop backgrounds, you have lots of choices. If you run Windows 7, you can simply install a […]
Over Clocked Remix is a community driven website that provides a place for anyone to upload remixes of their favorite video game music. Music can be downloaded for free from a number […]
Many occupations require individuals to take recordings of meetings and interviews to review later. Those notes are eventually transcribed, but that process can be a long and difficult one. It seems as […]
With today's technologies it is a lot easier - usually - to play games in a multiplayer environment. It does not really matter if you play the games on a local area […]
Some of us do a lot of copying and pasting during an average day, and from time to time the standard Windows clipboard simply does not cut it. Whether you need to […]
Next Tuesday Microsoft officially launches its Office 365 product. This product, which was expected for several years before any official announcement came, is the company's new subscription service for business. In short […]
I think it was Defender of the Crown that got me interested into turn based strategy computer games. It quickly became a passion with releases of excellent games such as Shining Force, […]
IrfanView is a popular image viewer capable of opening a wide array of common and rare file types. It has an array of features that make it useful in this function, but […]
Favicons are little icons that are used to identify websites in browsers. These icons are for instance displayed in the tabbar, for each opened tab one, and in the bookmarks folder. Firefox […]
Ever since the days of DOS, every directory has a special folder in it named "nul". You can use this to create a folder that will sync in Linux but not in […]
The insides of computers get dusty and grubby, it's just a fact of life. Running all those electrical components builds up tiny static charges which draw in dust that clings to the […]
If you have a web based email account, chance is that you either use Yahoo Mail, Google Mail or Microsoft Hotmail for that account. There are hundreds of smaller email providers, but […]
While we are gamers at heart here at Ghacks, we usually do not write that much about gaming. But when someone drops a bomb, we have the urge to tell the world. […]
After what felt like an eternity, the final version of the popular lightweight Bittorrent client uTorrent 3 has been released today. The final version is build 25406 and existing users should see […]
It seems that techies want to yell louder and louder about cloud computing every day. It’s apparently the way of the future, exhilarating, terrifying, and the best and worst things you can […]
I took note of Wieldy for the first time when the software's developer asked me to host the latest program versions here on Ghacks (if you are a software developer contact me […]
The default file manager in Windows has improved immensely over the years, but there is still room for improvement. A few years ago I switched to Xplorer2 (lite), associating folders and drives […]
When it comes to cleaning temporary files in Windows, the first program that comes to the mind of most computer users is the popular CCleaner by Pirisoft. There is an abundance of […]
Whenever I want to download software, I try to do so from the developer website and not third party websites. Not necessarily because I trust the developer website more, but to make […]
Five years ago Ghacks released a blurb about a new program that was brand new for computers. Called Workrave, the small application provided notices to keep computer users from spending too many […]
Twitter has not only become a tool for Internet users to write and exchange messages, but also for marketers and researchers who want to analyze the dynamics or trends on the Internet […]
The Firefox rapid release process that Mozilla switched to has caused some confusion about continuing support for older versions of the browser. While there was never an official support timeline before and […]
Every browser developer seems to be inclined these days to streamline and at the same time minimize the user interface. We have seen it with Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, and now […]
Update: Development of the program has been stopped. Since it relies on a working server to pull the latest themes from, it is not working properly anymore. We have removed all links […]
