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 […]
EPUB, which stands for Electronic Publication is an open ebook standard. It offers features such as css styling, word wrap or vector images, and its files - the ebooks - have the […]
Many websites look up the IP address that you are connecting with, or other browser header information, to redirect you automatically to a language specific version of the website. While those systems […]
In Why You Need To Protect Your Data In The Cloud I have explained why it is important to protect data that you upload to the cloud. In this guide, I will […]
Marble has been designed to be a virtual interactive globe and world atlas that you can use to look-up information. The cross-platform application has recently been updated to version 1.1, reason enough […]
Several events recently have shown some of the weaknesses, or dangers, of cloud based hosting, and the need for information and guides to aid users in protecting their data in the cloud. […]
Popular software developer Ashampoo is currently emailing their customers about a recently discovered successful hack on one of their servers. The break-in had been discovered by Ashampoo, and the company interrupted it […]
I occasionally use JDownloader to download files that are hosted on free file sharing hosts like Rapidshare, Filesonic, Oron or any of the other ten thousand file hosting sites on the Internet. […]
You encounter so many different video and audio formats both on your computer and on the Internet that you often need a software to convert media to make it compatible with your […]
Google rolled out a new version of Google Image Search some time ago. The most prominent change is that all image results are now displayed on the same page, with new images […]
Widgets have been an integral part of the Opera web browser for a long time. That's not the case for extensions, which have only been recently added to the web browser. It […]
All good domain names are already taken. I hear that a lot on a regular basis. Is it really true? No it is not, unless you define good as in exact keyword […]
I'm using a combination of the popular 7-zip archiver and the multiple archive extraction tool Extract Now for all my archiving needs. Hamster Free Zip Archiver caught my eye, not necessarily because […]
Update: The replacement add-on has been removed from the Mozilla Add-ons repository. An alternative is the UI Eraser extension. You have a few options if you want to remove or hide interface […]
The best way to protect data on one of your storage devices is to encrypt it. There are several free solutions out there, for instance by using the Open Source encryption software […]
Being Linux fans, you all know that Linux offers a lot of ways to manage the desktop. One of the best ways that Linux offers for keeping your desktop organized is multiple […]
Disk cloning or copying serves several purposes: it can be helpful for users who want to migrate to a larger hard drive for instance, or used for forensic or file recovery purposes […]
One of the things that I really missed in Firefox was an option to hover over an image to display a preview of it on the same page. I'm often browsing websites […]
Two-Factor Authentication seems to be the next big security feature to protect accounts from unauthorized access. Google recently enabled the feature for Google Accounts and now it is Facebook's turn to introduce […]
Audiophiles prefer the FLAC losless format over mp3 when it comes to listening to music. That's fine if you have enough storage space to store the larger FLAC files, but not so […]
Hacking into an e-mail, Facebook, or other account is often a crime of opportunity. That is not to say talented individuals with advanced knowledge are not a threat, but it can be […]
We are already at part 4 of the Discovering Opera series and there does not seem to be an end in sight. We are going to take a closer look at Opera […]
