Opera Turbo: discontinued feature to speed up browsing (Part 1)
Opera Turbo is a discontinued feature in the Opera web browser designed to speed up browsing on slow or restricted internet connections.
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Auto DJ, Free DJ Mixing Software
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 t
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VLC Media Player Security Update
VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media players, next to Windows Media Player and MPlayer frontends.
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ImgLikeOpera, Load Images Selectively To Speed Up The Web
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.
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Microsoft April 2011 Patch Day Overview
Yesterday's monthly patch day was a big one, with 17 bulletins fixing a total of 64 security issues in Microsoft products.
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Dropbox Insecure?
The article Dropbox authentication: insecure by design by Derek Newton got quite the press in the past week or so.
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Must Microsoft Offer a Direct Upgrade Path from XP to Windows 8?
Microsoft came under heavy fire with the launch of Windows 7 for not offering a direct migration path from XP.
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Configure hidden preferences in Claws Mail with Clawsker
I have been using Claws Mail for quite some time (I've covered Claws Mail here on Ghacks quite a bit.
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Get the First Preview Build of IE10 Today!
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 Win
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Goodbye Download Squad
I sometimes cannot believe the decisions that major Internet companies make.
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Disguising True Crypt Volumes In MP4 Videos
I have reviewed TCHunt yesterday, a free program to scan a computer system for unmounted True Crypt containers.
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Gameokratie, My German Games Blog
I love playing games.
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Firefox SEO Extension, Swoosty SEO Tools
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, has become a huge part of a webmaster's day to day work.
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Opera 11.10 Download Available, Grab Your Copy Now
Opera Software is usually pretty quick in releasing the final version of the Opera web browser once they have reached the release candidate stage.
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Banshee 2.0: Major update, major improvement
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.
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SaveGame Profiler, Switch Between Save Games Easily
Games where you only get one save game are not that common anymore, thankfully.
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TCHunt, Search For TrueCrypt Volumes
TCHunt is a small portable application that can be used to find encrypted True Crypt volumes on the system.
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Opera Tab Vault, Temporary Tabs Storage
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
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Steve Jobs Official Biography Coming in 2012
Publisher Simon & Schuster have announced that the first official biography of Apple supremo Steve Jobs will be published early in 2012.
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The Fox Gets Two New Logos
We have already told you how to switch between Firefox update channels to run the new Aurora builds of Firefox for instance, or the more frequently updated beta
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Can You Remove Internet Explorer 8 From Windows 7?
The topic came up recently on our How To Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 9 guide: Is it possible to remove or uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7?
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What To Do When Your Email Account is Compromised
I see more and more spam coming from the email accounts of contacts and friends when I open my e-mail program.
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Dropboxifier, Move Folders To Dropbox Without Losing Functionality
I know several computer users who use the file hosting and syncing software Dropbox to host some of their application's data.
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ArcThemAll, Lightweight Multi-Archiver Software
Good archiving software combines support for popular formats such as zip or rar with solid performance and light resource usage.
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Manage Third Party Access To Google, Twitter, Facebook And Dropbox
Apis of popular web applications like Facebook, Google, Dropbox or Twitter allow third party developers to create services and tools that offer additional featu
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Find Big Emails on Gmail
Roman messaged me yesterday about a problem one of his friend's was experiencing.
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How To Switch Firefox Update Channels
We have mentioned earlier that the Firefox development team had plans to switch to an accelerated development process.
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Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 1: The Assessment
I'm building a new PC every 18 months or so and post the progress of selecting the right PC components here on this blog.
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Zoom Image Userscript
For a while now I have been looking for a way to zoom images in the Firefox web browser with minimal effort.
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Logitech Illuminated Keyboards Review
As people are using PCs for many more things at home and the computer itself has become, in a few cases, an objet d'art in the case of some all-in-one dev
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Streets of Rage Remake [Game Saturday]
I have decided to bring back game reviews here at Ghacks by reviewing one, free game, every Saturday.
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Thunderbird Send Later, Schedule Emails
Sometimes you may want to send an email at a later time, maybe because you want someone to receive it a specific time and not earlier, or because you want to av
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YouTube Goes Live!
It's been on the cards for a couple of years now but today YouTube has launched its new Live service.
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Facebook Open Compute Project
Building and using efficient computing infrastructures is one of the goals of many successful Internet companies.
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Connect remotely from Linux with Terminal Server Client
I do a lot of remote work throughout the day and to make those connections I use different tools.
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Kid3 Semi-Automatic Audio File Tagger
Kid3 is a handy versatile audio tag editor for Windows, Linux and Macintosh computer systems.
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Windows 8 Aero Automatic Window Colorization
I like simple colors when it comes to the user interface in Windows.
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Google Mail: Manual Option To Add Contacts
I have more than 1000 contacts in Google Mail, all people that I know and hold dear.
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Mozilla Development Specifics Updated, Firefox 5 and 6 Release Dates
It will never again take more than a year to move from one major version of Firefox to the next, at least not unless Mozilla decides to change the current devel
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NetGear NeoTV 550 HD Set-Top Box Review
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or through other social networks may know that for the last month I've been testing NetGear's new, top of the range Neo TV
