Microsoft has published all security patches for today's Patch Day a few minutes ago. The patches are available via Windows Update, Microsoft Update and the individual security bulletins that describe the nature […]
The Google Docs development team has finally added one of the most requested features to the document management service. The ability to share folders - and with those the documents contained in […]
Firefox users: What do you need the Firefox status bar for? Many will probably answer that they do not need it at all while some may say that they use it to […]
Note: The first method outlined below is not working anymore. Both the autoplay and loop parameters stopped working some time ago and cannot be used anymore. The scripts listed below are also […]
Update: The promotion is over and there is currently no new promotion that is offering free access to Zonealarm products. Remember last year? Zonealarm ran a promotion in November where users could […]
Forget buttons. Forget primitive touch strips that wouldn’t register your input half the time. Forget it all. Multitouch is the new way to roll if the multitude of new products is any […]
As a old-school Linux user I am quick to use the command line before any other tool. One of those tools I use almost daily is wget. Wget is a command-line only […]
Aero Shake and Aero Peek are two new features of the Windows 7 operating system.Aero Shake is activated when you shake a window a few times by clicking on its title, holding […]
You might have already read about it in the news elsewhere: The Twitter account of security researcher Mikko H. Hyppönen of F-Secure got suspended without warning two days ago. Mikko tried to […]
Tomorrow is a day that could force many system administrators into overtime as both Microsoft and Adobe plan to release security patches for several of their products. Microsoft alone plans to release […]
Auto Shutdown is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds the option to automatically shutdown the computer after downloads finish using it. It is generally not advised to use the […]
Bing Maps, which was formerly known as Virtual Earth, is Microsoft's answer to Google Maps. The maps service is directly available on the Bing homepage and offers a 2D mode by default. […]
Microsoft Photo Story is a free software program by Microsoft for the Windows operating system that can be used to turn digital camera photos and pictures into small videos. It is possible […]
Yahoo Mail is one of the most popular web email services next to Microsoft's Outlook.com and Google Mail, especially when it comes to web-based services. You can use your Yahoo account credentials, […]
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. Those are the five most popular web browsers on the Internet. If you would ask users to mention two more most would probably have […]
In this Linux backup series we have taken a look at Flyback ("Quick and easy backups with Flyback"), Backerupper ("Simple gui backup tool Backerupper"), and Back In Time ("Linux Back In Time: […]
Broken links can be problematic for webmasters in a number of ways. The most obvious is that links that are not working anymore will prevent visitors from accessing information that they want […]
Update: Please note that Google has announced that it will retire Orkut on September 30, 2014. This means that Orkut won't be available anymore after that date. Google has posted suggestions on […]
Webmasters and system administrators who manage multiple web servers and web hosting accounts with programs like Putty, WinSCP, VNC or Microsoft Terminal Server might have noticed that not all of the programs […]
In my recent trend of covering Linux backup tools I have, so far, covered Flyback ("Quick and easy backups with Flyback") and Backerupper ("Simple GUI backup tool Backerupper"). Both tools are GUI […]
The desktop email client Thunderbird comes with integrated spell checking which can be a great help when writing emails. The spell checking module uses dictionaries to provide its functionality which is done […]
Users who want to perform a search in Windows usually do so from the Windows start menu where the search link (Windows XP) or search form (Windows Vista and Windows 7) is […]
The Internet is full of software programs that promise to optimize, repair and test the Windows operating system. There are actually that many of them that it becomes hard to keep an […]
FavBackup is a specialized backup software that has been designed for web browser's specifically. Our previous review came to the conclusion that FavBackup is best suited for backing up one or multiple […]
HD video authoring software multiAVCHD has been designed to author AVCHD, Blu-Ray, HD DVD or SD-Video, to transfer DVD backups without re-encoding to Blu-Ray or AVCHD format, to watch Blu-Ray disk backups […]
In my last article I covered the backup GUI Flyback ("Quick and easy backups with Flyback".) Although it seems development has stopped for that tool, it is still a viable solution. Does that mean […]
There are not a lot of tools available for the Windows operating system that measure and optimize the Windows boot process. The mysterious Microsoft Bootvis, which was later retracted by Microsoft, or […]
Tools that scan a Windows operating system for software and check online if this software is outdated always face two problems: quality and magnitude. The quality problem mainly deals with false positives […]
Remember back then when AOL decided to provide downloads of an anonymized snapshot of search engine log files? One of the first things that Internet Marketers did was analyze the data to […]
We reviewed Yahoo Meme a while ago here at Ghacks and gave out several invites to Yahoo's Twitter-like service. The service was in private beta back then which meant that only users […]
If you're looking for a tool for really simple and quick backups Flyback might just be the tool for you. Compared to Apples Time Machine (on the web site at least), Flyback […]
Tech savvy Windows users love Sysinternals applications. That's a given fact and you barely stumble upon someone who has not at least one or two of the software programs created by Sysinternals […]
The download manager of the Firefox web browser is not displaying many information by default. Only the name and size of the file, the time and the main domain it was downloaded […]
Windows Explorer is not one of the most sophisticated file explorers available for the Windows operating system. It is, however, the default file explorer for the Windows operating system and many Windows […]
You might remember the survey that Google conducted in New York a while back asking random people passing by what a web browser is. It was not that surprising, at least for […]
The Linux operating system has a really nice tool for testing and optimizing your hard drive. This tool is called hdparm and can work with both IDE and ATA drives. NOTE: hdparm […]
Google's latest changes to the company's search engine were not welcome by all users. The increase of the font size was a shock to many who used to work with the same […]
One of the best software programs to convert video files to DVD is the commercial Convert X To DVD which we introduced during our Christmas Giveaway last year. The program is super […]
If you perform a Google search nowadays you get mixed search results. Google not only displays the first ten pages that is has in its index for the entered keyword but also […]
It is time to update the phishing protection article that we published some time ago (see Phishing explained) with the recent news that thousands of Hotmail users (and apparently Gmail users as […]
