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A recent trend in mobile computing is to make devices as slim as possible.
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Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on for Chrome
Many websites and services make use of Google Analytics, a web statistics service that is tracking web users on websites where the script is installed.
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Rumor: Facebook To Buy Opera Software To Join Browser Wars
Okay take this with some skepticism as there is no official confirmation about this yet, and the only source for the article is an unnamed one.
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How To Access Removed Results On Google Search
If you search on Google regularly, you may have noticed omitted entries on some search results pages.
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In Germany, You Pay Extra To Appease The Rights-Holders
When you buy blank media, hard drives, printers, or USB drives in Germany, you not only pay for the device or item, but also an extra fee that goes right into t
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Google Removal Requests By Organization, Copyright Owner and Domains
Depending on what you search for on Google, you sometimes may find information at the bottom of the search page that inform you that results have been removed f
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Google News Reader, Read Custom News In Chrome
Computer users have many options when it comes to reading news.
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This is the best smooth scrolling extension for Firefox
I rarely use superlatives here on Ghacks, but this smooth scrolling extension for Firefox has fully convinced me that there is nothing better on the market righ
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Flash Integrated Natively In Internet Explorer 10?
Many webmasters, web developers and regular users thought that the rise of HTML5 would eliminate the web's need for Adobe Flash and other proprietary technologi
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Yahoo Axis Launched, Changes how you Search on the Internet
The basic search concept has not really evolved in the past decade or so.
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Fix Firefox Nightly Not Updating Automatically
The Firefox web browser comes in several flavors.
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Lunascape: A Triple-Engine Internet Browser
Lunascape is a free, Japanese-developed web browser established in 2001, designed for desktop and mobile, known for its focus on speed, privacy, and built-in We
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ochDownloader, a JDownloader alternative
When it comes to download files from file hosting sites without all the hassles involved doing that directly on the site's website, JDownloader is the go-to pro
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Visual Studio 11: Only For Windows 7 or higher
Windows 8 is not the only product that Microsoft is currently working on.
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Change Firefox shortcuts with the Customizable Shortcuts add-on
Back when Mozilla introduced the Tab Groups feature I often hit the assigned shortcut accidentally triggering it.
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The Piratebay: Cat and Mouse game continues
If you are living in the UK, or another country where access to the popular Bittorrent indexing site the Piratebay has been blocked, you may have wondered what
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Windows 8's Boot Experience Will Be Different
When there is something wrong with my Windows 7 desktop PC, I tend to hammer on the F8 key during boot to get into the advanced boot options.
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Quick check your system for problems with System Security Guard
As you may know, I like to run portable security programs from time to time on systems that I own or administrate as part of a system's regular maintenance.
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Easiest way to show windows side by side in Windows
When I'm working on a computer that is connected to a single monitor, I often like to display two windows side by side, especially when writing a new blog post.
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OwnCloud 4 Released, Now With Encryption, Versioning, More
Computer users who want to store data in the cloud, or synchronize data between their own devices, have the choice between so many different cloud hosting servi
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Make Firefox More Responsive With Suspend Background Tabs
If you work with many tabs in Firefox, you may have some websites that leech away the computer's processing power or memory even when they are running in the ba
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How To Prioritize File Downloads In uTorrent
When you load a torrent with multiple files into the uTorrent Bittorrent client, you will notice that uTorrent by default will not prioritize any file in partic
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Microsoft set to improve Windows Multi-Monitor support
Microsoft re-published the multi-monitor article on the Building Windows 8 blog that was published earlier this week and then pulled again.
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Keep Your PC Clean With Wise Disk Cleaner
Some computer users say that there is not really a need to run disk cleaners like the popular CCleaner or the lesser known FixBee regularly on a system thanks t
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Wikipedia down? Try these alternatives
Wikipedia in recent years has become the go-to address for Internet users when it comes to looking up information on the Internet.
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Create Self-Destructing Notes With Burn Note
When I think about self-destructing notes or messages, I tend to think of spy movies like James Bond or Impossible Mission, and not necessarily about something
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Web Browser System Requirements Overview
When you are planning to install a new web browser on your system, or to upgrade one of the browsers to a newer version, you need to make sure that your system
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Box Launches Private Sync Client Beta for Personal Users
A sync client is something that many users of cloud hosting services have come to expect to be offered from the services that they use in recent times.
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Add DuckDuckGo's Zero-Click Information To Google Search
One of the great features of the search engine DuckDuckGo are its zero-click information boxes that are automatically displayed at the top of the search results
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Microsoft So.cl (Social) Silently Launched
Oh no, not another networking site, please, for god's sake.
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How To Run Java Applications On Systems Without JRE
Great programs like the file hosting downloader JDownloader or the feed reader RSSOwl require Java to run.
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How To Opt-Out of Twitters' Weekly Email Digest
If you have a Twitter account, and who does not, you may have heard about the weekly email digest that Twitter has been working on for a while.
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Windows 8 Desktop With Less Eye Candy, Drops Aero Glass
One of the first things that I do after installing Vista or Windows 7 on a new computer is to change some of the default visual effects the operating system shi
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ESET Rogue Application Remover
Rogue applications are malware that try to fool the user in believing that they are legit programs.
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Use Search Keywords In Opera For Advanced Features
One of the cool features of the Opera web browser is its keyword functionality.
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Crysis Wreckage Standalone [Game Saturday]
I usually do not review FPS games in this series, not because I do not like that genre, heck I have 960 hours of Team Fortress game play time in Steam, but [&he
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WikidPad is your own personal Wiki-like local Notebook
When it comes to storing information on your computer, you have lots of different options at your disposal.
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How to make the most out of Opera Panels
One of the differences between Opera and other popular web browsers, like Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox, is the small panels bar that Opera users can dis
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Pop Out Browser Objects Into Their Own Resizable Window in Firefox
When you are only interested in a specific object on a web page, like a video player or Flash game, you may sometimes prefer to hide or remove the remaining pag
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SkyDrive Get a link feature Now With Bitly Support
I was not really a fan of Microsoft's online storage and management service SkyDrive a few years ago, as it could not really compete with services like Dropbox
