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Claws Mail: The unsung powerhouse email client

I have used so many email clients over the years. For the last few years my go-to email client has been Thunderbird. Lately, however, I have really been taken in by Claws […]

Displays Recently Lauched Computer Software In Windows

The Windows operating system offers quite a few option to find out what its users have been doing recently. It starts with all those temporary folders, time stamps of files, history and […]

Wireless Network Scanner inSSIDer

The wireless network scanner inSSIDer can be used to quickly scan the area for wireless networks. The software program works well with Windows Vista and Windows XP (even the 64-bit editions) and […]

Force Firefox To Open Links In Same Tab

One of the great annoyances on the Internet are links that are configured to open in new links or tabs. Outbound links, which means links that point to another domain, are usually […]

CD And DVD Printing Software DVD Print

CD and DVD printing software DVD Print makes it quite easy to create compelling CD and DVD covers. This can come in handy when you download (free) music or movies from the […]

Google Update Changes

The Google Update process is the bane for many Internet users as it seemed to become available again even if it has been disabled previously on the computer system. The process googleupdate.exe […]

Why Blackberry and Windows Mobile isn’t going anywhere

iPhone sells 1,000,000 devices in its opening weekend, Palm sells 300,000 Pre’s in 3 weeks, T-Mobile has 1,000,000 G1’s in circulation. You’d think with these numbers Microsoft and RIM would be pacing […]

Exclude Categories From WordPress Feeds

I received an email from Matthew a few hours ago who asked if there was a possibility to exclude certain categories from my website from appearing in the RSS feed. I was […]

Get to know Linux: man pages

Have you ever had someone tell you to "RTFM" (aka: "Read The Flippin' Man page") only to realize you have no idea what man pages were? "Man pages" is short for "Manual […]

Linux Mint

When Linux Mint was originally launched, it was a version of Ubuntu that offered integrated media codecs. Founded and developed by Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint boasts as one of the most user […]

Hide The Firefox Tabbar

The Firefox tabbar is always visible in the web browser unless it is permanently deactivated in the View menu (Update: this feature has been removed from Firefox 23). It does not really […]

Network Monitor Experts Extension For Microsoft Network Monitor

Three Network Monitor Experts have been released so far, the last less than two weeks ago. Available are the Simple Search, Top Users and TCP Analyzer Experts. Here is a short summary […]

Password Recovery Questions Make Online Accounts Vulnerable

Password recovery questions are great to recover a forgotten password in a matter of seconds. All that needs to be done is to answer the password recovery question to receive a new […]

Should you upgrade your Linux distribution?

So you're working with Ubuntu 8.04 or Fedora 10 and you're jonesing over the new release of your distribution. You have always kept up with the most recent releases, but time is […]

Europe To Get Standard Phone Chargers

Non-standard phone chargers are one of the most annoying things of cell phones. The life-cycle of a cell phone is usually two years. That's when the contract ends and a new cell […]

Sourceforge Website Redesign

Sourceforge is a website that allows developers to host their Open Source applications on it. Sourceforge hosts some of the most prestigious Open Source applications on their website including 7-zip, Emule, Notepad++ […]

SmugMug Album Downloader

SmugMug is a popular photo hosting and sharing website. The main difference between SmugMug and other photo hosting websites like Flickr is the fact that users have to pay for a SmugMug […]

Windows Services Manager

Working with services in Windows regularly can be quite the challenge. The official way to manage Windows services is to open the built-in services manager. Once the Services manager has been opened […]

Trap Spammers with Project Honey Pot

Junk mail is always a pain to deal with. Some junk mail may be stuff you actually sign up for and lost interest in. Spam, however, is stuff that you never signed […]

Select All Emails From Sender In Thunderbird

Most users of the email client Thundebird - and most likely users of other email clients as well - sort their emails by date. There are other means of sorting emails though […]

5 Things we’re still missing from our Smartphones

With the iPhone, Pre, and a whole host of Android devices out the door, the race for the control of the cell phone market is heating up. As things usually go in […]

Get to know Linux: ps command

Over the years there have been certain commands that have really helped me out of a bind. One of those commands is the ps command. The ps stands for process status and […]

Secure your Google account with your mobile phone number

A Google account offers access to numerous popular and often times important services. This includes access to the popular Gmail email service, Google Docs for storing documents but also access to Google […]

Use Gmail To Host And Share Photos

Update: The browser extension for Firefox has not been updated since 2009. It is not really needed anymore as Google has integrated its Drive service in Gmail that you can use to […]

Java Error 25099 Unzipping Core Files Failed

The installation of Java can terminate on some computer systems with the error message "Error 25099 Unzipping Core Files Failed". This can happen with the Java online or offline installer. The reason […]

The Piratebay Sold To Swedish Software Company

We had to check the date on the story that was posted on Techcrunch this morning which stated that the Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X bought The Piratebay for 60 […]

Auction Giant eBay Make Changes to Fee Structure

eBay, struggling to compete with the likes of Amazon.com recently announced a new fee structure in hopes to attract new sellers. Many sellers who have previously left eBay have complained that the […]

Who shares your shared hosting?

I host my website on shared hosting. My connection is too slow and unreliable to justify running my own server and I have no need to hire a dedicated server or a […]

Linux Tips: Create an unfilled circle in The GIMP

I love The GIMP. I use it every day for many different things. I know The GIMP well and have little problem using any aspect of this image manipulation program. There is […]

MP3 Quality Modifier

While this is not a problem on modern computer systems where hard drives with Terabytes of data become the norm. It could however play a role with mobile devices like cell phones […]

Tab To New Window Annoyance In Firefox

Firefox 3.5 comes with an annoying problem that I'm not able to solve. The developers - for unknown reasons - have decided to make it possible to drag tabs, which in itself […]

Download Microsoft Security Essentials

You might have been one of the lucky ones who were able to download the beta of Microsoft antivirus software program Security Essentials. Chance is you missed the opportunity as Microsoft has […]

The Open Courseware Movement Offers Free Education Online

Not everyone takes a college class just for the credit toward their degree, there are actually a lot of people who love taking classes just to learn something new, because they are […]

Create Custom Windows 7 Jumplists

Jumplists are a new feature of the Windows 7 operating system. Jumplists provide quick application-specific access by linking to functions and folders that are used frequently. Companies may add custom links to […]

The Windows Marketplace Advantage

It has been known for some time that hardly any innovation goes into the technology world these days. While many will debate as to whether this is true or not, a quick […]

Fix: Could not flush the DNS Resolver Cache

Could not flush the DNS Resolver Cache is an error message that you may receive when you run the ipconfig /flushdns command on Windows machines. The DNS Client service is used by […]

Blogging with Blogger from your desktop with BloGTK

Recently I worked on some articles about blogging from various means (from within Firefox and on the desktop). One of those applications I left out of that study was BloGTK. The reason […]

Recipe Software ChickenPing

ChickenPing is the first recipe software that gets reviewed at Ghacks. Recipe software programs are definitely a niche product but can prove to be very useful if they come with an extensive […]

Avi To Mp4 Converter

The avi video format is probably the most popular video format with the exception of flv which dominates the market for smaller videos. Almost every software player can play the avi format […]

Gmail Raises Attachment Limit to 25 Megabyte

Update: The attachment limit is still 25 Megabyte on Gmail but Google has added an option to the email client to use its cloud hosting service Google Drive for larger attachments. Instead […]