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 […]
One of the easiest ways to obtain music legally is to record Internet radio. Tools for the job have evolved a lot over past years, from command line applications to powerful programs […]
Update: Google is fading out plugin support in Chrome. Chrome won't support so-called NPAPI plugins anymore at the end of 2015 with no option to get the functionality back. Big news today […]
Firefox displays a lot of options when you right-click in the web browser. The list of items depends on the element that you right-clicked on, as some entries are only shown if […]
We are looking at Opera Widgets in the third part of our Discovering Opera series. You can read about Opera Turbo and Opera Unite in the two previous parts of the series. […]
You probably know what hibernation is, right? Instead of shutting down the operating system you can use hibernation to save the content of the RAM to the hard drive to speed up […]
Norton has made available beta downloads for their upcoming security software refreshes. Norton Internet Security 2012 Beta and Norton Antivirus 2012 Beta are both available for download at the Norton Beta Center. […]
Sometimes when you are searching for a specific file you may use Bittorrent indexers to find it. Most indexers allow you to search their index, and it happens that you have to […]
Before Youtube, Google tried to conquer the video hosting niche with a service that they called Google Video. When they discovered that they could not compete with Youtube, they bought that service […]
We are taking a closer look at Opera Unite in our second part of the Discovering Opera series. Opera Unite - just like Opera Turbo - was introduced introduced in 2009 by […]
Upgrade Complete 2 is the sequel to the popular Upgrade Complete flash browser game. Both games add a unique idea to a game that is in its core an arcade shooter. Imagine […]
As a new Windows MVP I'll be having my first meetings next week with Microsoft at their UK head office in Reading. It's going to be very interesting as it’s my first […]
I'm usually pretty cautious when it comes to publicly stating that a software or service is the best there is. Martview on the other hand has a lot going for it, and […]
The free program Image Uploader is actually more than just another program to upload photos from a local system to the Internet. You can use it to transfer any file to the […]
Once in a while I stumble upon information that I want to preserve. Sure, I can bookmark the page to access it at a later time, but what if that page gets […]
Mozilla has changed the development process of Firefox significantly after the release of Firefox 4. From a long winded Nightly > Beta > Release scheme to a streamlined 18 weeks release cycle […]
Google has just released an update for the Google Chrome stable channel that updates the version of the web browser to 10.0.658.205 for all supported operating systems (which means Microsoft Windows, Apple […]
When you install a new application on a Linux distribution, that enjoys the Enlightenment E17 desktop, sometimes those applications will automatically add a menu entry and sometimes they won't. When an application […]
Microsoft has released a program called Microsoft Safety Scanner, a free on-demand virus scanner for the Windows operating system. The program's main task is to run a virus scan on a Windows […]
Image browsing can be a lot easier if you have the right tools at hand. Imagine a directory with 50, 100 or even 500 images that are all named similarly and only […]
Microsoft has improved dual monitor support in the Windows 7 operating system. It is for instance relatively easy to setup a multi-monitor system and make use of some of the operating system's […]
It was more or less clear that Microsoft's upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10 would not support Windows XP, considering that Internet Explorer 9 did not support the operating system as well. […]
The developers of the Opera web browser have been inventive in past years, and it is a confirmation of their hard work that many of the features that they have introduced in […]
Auto DJ is an uncomplicated free DJ mixing software that's ideal for private parties and other events where you need better sound mixing options or prefer not to just play songs from […]
VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media players, next to Windows Media Player and MPlayer frontends. A high popularity usually has the downside that criminals try to find and […]
I'm used to a very fast Internet broadband connection, pages usually display in less than a second or two, and I rarely ever have to wait longer than that. This changes noticeably […]
Yesterday's monthly patch day was a big one, with 17 bulletins fixing a total of 64 security issues in Microsoft products. Affected applications include Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. If […]
The article Dropbox authentication: insecure by design by Derek Newton got quite the press in the past week or so. So what exactly did he find out to come to this conclusion? […]
Microsoft came under heavy fire with the launch of Windows 7 for not offering a direct migration path from XP. The older operating system, which is now ten years old, is something Microsoft […]
I have been using Claws Mail for quite some time (I've covered Claws Mail here on Ghacks quite a bit.)Â What I like about Claws Mail, over nearly every other email client, is […]
Nope, this isn't a belated April fool, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser only just out of the door and not even delivered to many users yet through Windows Update, the first platform […]
I sometimes cannot believe the decisions that major Internet companies make. The latest company to join the ranks is AOL with the decision to close down the Download Squad technology blog. Download […]
I have reviewed TCHunt yesterday, a free program to scan a computer system for unmounted True Crypt containers. The program can be used to prove the existence of an encrypted container on […]
I love playing games. Started when I was very young in the arcades, got my Atari 2600 then followed by the C-64, then Commodore Amiga and finally the PC. Lots of entertainment […]
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, has become a huge part of a webmaster's day to day work. Not of all webmasters, as it is quite possible to outsource SEO to companies. But […]
Opera Software is usually pretty quick in releasing the final version of the Opera web browser once they have reached the release candidate stage. This time it took four release candidates before […]
If you are just now getting into the Linux foray and you plan on listening to music or other forms of mult-media, you are one lucky person. For those of us who […]
Games where you only get one save game are not that common anymore, thankfully. But if you happen to play one you may have found a way to manual circumvent the limit, […]
TCHunt is a small portable application that can be used to find encrypted True Crypt volumes on the system. It has been specifically designed to demonstrate the possibility of finding True Crypt […]
How do you handle new interesting websites if you do not have time to use or access them right away? Some users like to keep the sites open until they do, even […]
