How To Edit, Reset The Windows Hosts File
The question came just up again and I realized that I have never posted a tutorial about editing and reseting the Windows Hosts file.
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Taking the Pain Out of Reinstalling Windows
Sometimes there's nothing you can do when your copy of Windows is malfunctioning other than a complete format and reinstall.
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MultiScan, Scan Local Files With Multiple Antivirus Programs
The idea to scan files with multiple antivirus engines is not new, online portals such as Virustotal offer that feature for quite some time.
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Full Tilt Poker, There Is A New Version To Install
If you like to play poker online you may be a member of the popular online poker room Full Tilt Poker.
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Fix Context Menu Items Missing In Windows Explorer
Microsoft has decided to remove several context menu entries from Windows 7's Windows Explorer context menu if more than 15 items are selected at once.
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Giganews Introduces Two VyprVPN Security Options
You know that I'm a pretty happy Giganews customer, never had problems with their Usenet service and everything has been top notch ever since I signed up for my
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Linux command line tips: wget
One of the applications I use most often is the wget tool.
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Mozilla Demos Web Apps Store
Do you know the difference between web apps and extensions? No? You are not alone.
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Web Maps To Garmin, Custom Map Converter
Garmin is probably best known for their GPS-powered devices and applications.
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Windows 8 Screenshots Leak, Show New Features
Several Windows 8 screenshots have leaked in the past, but they never revealed any new features of the upcoming Microsoft operating system.
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Ask Toolbar Removal, How To Uninstall
The Ask Toolbar has been developed by the makers of the Ask Search engine to allow easier access to the search engine's search functionality.
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Web Platform Installer, Install Free Microsoft Software
Web Platform Installer 3.
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sWeather, Local Weather App For Windows
Many people use the Internet to look up weather information to answer questions like "will it rain today", "is the sun shining at our holiday destination" or "d
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Ebay Negs Summarizes Ebay Negative Feedback
Users who buy regularly on the popular auction website eBay know that it is a good practice to check a seller's feedback before making purchases.
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Play Flash Games Lag Free In Fullscreen In Google Chrome
Do not you hate it when flash games make use of low resolutions so that it becomes difficulty to play the game? When other elements on the page the game is embe
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Avira DE-Cleaner, On Demand Virus Scanning
Avira DE-Cleaner is a new specialized security software from the makers of the popular antivirus software AntiVir.
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Nothing Important Happened Today
I took delivery of my new Windows 7 Tablet today, an ExoPC Slate, on the day ironically when Apple unveiled the iPad 2 to the world.
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Have some Linux ascii fun with asciiquarium
Never let it be said that Linux users and developers do not have a sense of humor.
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How To Download Facebook Videos
Facebook introduced video support back in 2007 and has since then improved the feature for instance by adding high definition video support.
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WebBrowserPassView, Reveal Browser Passwords
All modern web browsers have options to store passwords for the user which is beneficial in two ways; Users do not have to remember their passwords every time t
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Chrome Does Not Play Well With Outdated Graphics Card Drivers
PC gamers know that they need to update their graphics card drivers frequently to improve performance, compatibility and stability.
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Use MailStore To Backup Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Emails
Cloud based email is great.
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Bins Review, Windows 7 Taskbar Organizer
Remember Fences? The program helped users organize their computer desktop by offering advanced grouping and hiding options.
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ISO Workshop, Create, Convert Burn CD, DVD Images
Disk image formats like ISO are quite common on the Internet in these days.
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Improve Firefox's Urlbar With Locationbar2
The website address is an essential element of any web browser, or at least of the browser's of this generation as some browser developers experiment with desig
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iSafePDF, Free Software To Encrypt, Sign PDF Documents
The open source software iSafePDF can be used to manipulate existing pdf documents.
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Google Chrome Stable Security Update
Google has just released a new version of the Google Chrome Stable browser.
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Opera Hardware Acceleration Demo Is Blazingly Fast
Two of the top five web browsers on today's Internet do not support hardware acceleration in their latest public releases.
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Drive Bender, Merge Hard Drives Into One
The planned removal of Drive Extender in the upcoming version of Windows Server is the number one complaint of existing Windows Server users.
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Use gvim for a better vi experience
If you edit configuration files by hand, or if you prefer a more "manual" approach to the process of writing, you most likely use a text editor.
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Mozilla Also Experimenting With Url Bar-less Designs
Mike recently wrote a piece on Google's idea to kill the Google Chrome url bar in order to save up more space for websites and web applications (see Will Google
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Bookmarklets For Annoyances On The Internet
The Internet is full of annoyances.
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LastPass Fixes XSS Vulnerability, Improves Security
Ghacks regulars know that I'm a big supporter of the free cloud based password manager LastPass.
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Scriptish, Promises Better Firefox 4 Userscript Support, Performance
Firefox 4 users who want to work with userscripts, small JavaScript programs that change a website's functionality or add features to it, can install the very p
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Radbox, Save Online Videos To Watch Them Later
Have you experienced the following situation? You just received an email or message from a friend that contained a link to a funny must see video.
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Gmail Resets 150,000+ Email Accounts, Loses Everything
If you can't log into your Gmail account this morning it could be because engineers at Google are trying to recover all your emails that they accidentally delet
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4chan Downloader Saves All Thread Images Automatically
4chan regulars, who like the site because of its vast pool of images that get uploaded to the website every minute, often utilize software or extensions to down
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The latest Ubuntu Unity: Good or bad?
It's almost here.
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Opening Tabs In Firefox, Configuration Options
How do you like your tabs to open in the Firefox web browser? Mozilla has changed the default tab opening behavior in Firefox 3.
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Bing Search Improves Facebook Integration
Is social the next search? Rumors about Facebook Search have been spread for years; The data that Facebook's developers could utilize sounds enormous: Content f
