A link points to another web address, device or service. It is usually accompanied by link text that describes the link. But not every link is equal, as the platform used to […]
Magi: The Fallen World is a browser action rpg game. Players select a character class (Mage, Warrior, Archer) in the beginning. They start in town and can explore locations on the world […]
A common attack form on the Internet is to optimize web pages or domain for specific keywords to make them appear on the first search result pages of popular search engines such […]
Using secure, unique passwords for every Internet site or service is one of the best security practices out there. That does not necessarily protect you completely, as the Sony Playstation Network incident […]
A driver, or hardware driver, is needed so that computer devices like the mouse, monitor or video card, can communicate with the operating system. The Windows operating system ships with a huge […]
These days, there is one piece of networking equipment that has become much more common: the router. Many of them actually have the same IP (Internet Protocol) number, 192.168.1.1, and for an […]
Mozilla is currently distributing an update for the Firefox 4 browser to worldwide mirror servers to be prepared for the update rush once the updating notification appear in the web browser and […]
Would not it be nice if you could just log on to any computer with Windows installed and directly work with your custom settings and preferences? This is apparently becoming reality with […]
Different teams and individuals are working on the Firefox web browser. Some are improving the web browser's core, others are working on the interface or experimental extensions that may one day be […]
Many digital cameras store the camera's serial number in the photo's EXIF information, which can then be used to identify photos taken with that specific camera. The new web service Stolen Camera […]
>In light of Sony's security breach last week it's clear that Internet security is a major issue and work clearly needs to be done, and done quickly, on implementing new web security […]
In Dropbox Insecure?, we reported on a security issue that affected all Dropbox users. A configuration file that is placed on an authorized computer after enabling Dropbox on it was improperly protected. […]
Back in December of last year Yahoo released a statement that they would close down several of their web properties. Among them popular social bookmarking site Delicious. The statement turned out to […]
Google has just updated the Google Chrome Stable channel to version 11. This is a landmark considering that the stable branch of the browser is now sharing the "highest-browser-version-crown" with Opera Software's […]
New Firmware often adds new functionality and improvement to devices. Firmware is recorded on computer chips and therefor an integral part of the device. The best known firmware is probably the bios […]
The Firefox add-on Context Menu Image Saver adds options to Firefox to use multiple download directories for images when using the web browser. The common way of saving images hosted on web […]
Google Chrome is the only web browser that offers a direct link to access the storage settings of Adobe Flash Player to delete local shared objects, commonly known as Flash cookies. It […]
Here is a task for you. Go to Google, Bing or your preferred search engine, and enter the following search term into the search box at the top: site:http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/ What's the result? […]
Maybe you have heard that Sony has taken their Playstation Network (PSN) offline on April 20. It first was not clear why it was taken down, with many suspecting a DDOS attack […]
The popular lightweight pdf reader Sumatra has been updated by its developers recently. Version 1.5 of the application now supports XPS documents (XML Paper Specification) and can therefor act as an alternative […]
The sheer volume of excitement about Windows 8 has taken me quite by surprise with more leaks than we ever saw with Vista or Windows 7 in the same time-frame. The excitement […]
Up until today I have never tried to send an executable file via Google's email service. When I tried that today, it looked at first as if it was not a problem. […]
One of the annoying aspects of web mail accounts is that you cannot navigate away from a page after you have initiated an action. This includes uploading larger attachments or sending emails. […]
You may stumble upon useful pages sometimes that have such an irritating design or page style that you have a hard time concentrating on the content that it offers. Maybe it is […]
Facebook has a new button. It is called Facebook Send and it is available in addition to the Like Button that has been around for quite some time. Facebook Send basically allows […]
Mike just emailed me asking for a way to combine all of his author feeds from all websites he is writing for to publish all of his articles as a single feed […]
When you select text in the Firefox web browser and right-click afterwards, you get a custom context menu with options to search Google for the selected term. That option can be quite […]
One of the thing that's extremely unhandy when you are working with Firefox preferences is that you cannot access a detailed explanation of a preference's functionality directly. You have to copy the […]
I only have a handful of Firefox extensions installed all the time. One of them is Multi Links, a versatile link handling extension. I often use it to open multiple pages on […]
The Internet is full of possibilities to download free music legally. Free and legal, is not that tautological? Not necessarily, as you may stumble upon offers to download free music that are […]
Most tech savvy people have figured out how to save music to their Amazon Cloud Drive, but not everyone knows how to save to the Cloud Drive and their PC. Snagging a […]
For most developers, keeping your source code's comments, error messages, check in notes and even variable names free of spelling mistakes is not the most pressing concern. As a developer and a […]
In How To Delete Cookies On A Computer and How To Clear A Browser Cache I have shown how to run a manual cleanup to delete the cache and cookies of a […]
I'm well known for being a PC minimalist. I even make a bit of a fuss about this in my book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, that if you want to have […]
Google caches all websites and pages of a site when it crawls it with its bots. Most cached pages are then linked to from Google Search as well which can be handy […]
Yesterday I have published a tutorial on clearing the browser cache which is an essential thing to know. Today I'm going to show you how to delete cookies from your PC, which […]
Ghacks regulars know how to clear the cache of their web browser. I get support emails occasionally from new readers who do not know how to do that, or who, when asked […]
Google recently made the announcement that they would shut down their video hosting service Google Video for good. I have covered the announcement in Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To […]
When you visit a web page in the Firefox browser that requires a specific plugin to be installed to display all or some of its contents, and you do not have it […]
I have the feeling that most innovation in gaming comes from independent developers who produce low-budget contents for gaming consoles, the PC or web browsers. Bela Kovacs and The Trail of Blood […]
