Tamir contacted me today per email describing how he was looking for an easy way to backup and restore the wireless network profiles. He actually discovered some netsh commands but nothing that […]
An internal British Telecom document was released two days ago on the Wikileak website that provides the results of British Telecom's validation of Phorm, also known as (aka 121Media) Deep Packet Inspection. […]
Replacing an older hard drive with less space with a new one that offers hundreds of additional Gigabytes can be a confusing task. How do you get the data from the old […]
Google has added a very interesting feature to Gmail called Labs which is accessible in the account options. Labs is basically a testing ground for Gmail add-ons created by members of the […]
File recovery from old media disks like CD or DVD might become a huge market in the near future. People using them to store important data, like family pictures, documents or videos, […]
Awesome Search, which I reviewed two days ago, is probably the best application when it comes to Firefox extensions that display Google search results while you are still typing the search phrase. […]
You might remember that I was looking for a program to set global shortcuts to reserved keys like F1-F12. Winlauch is a program that can set global shortcuts and comes very close […]
Security professionals sometimes need to find out as much about a domain as they can without alerting the owner that someone is requesting all those information. Passive Recon is a Firefox extension […]
Hotspot Shield is probably the only working free VPN solution that enables users from all over the world to access websites that provide their contents only to visitors from the United States. […]
Are you as sick of hearing about Twitter as I am? See the problem is that I never really “got†Twitter… I tried, I really did. I signed up and followed people […]
Update: Evidence Collector has been discontinued. It is no longer maintained but the most recent release can still be downloaded from the developer website linked below. Have you ever asked yourself what […]
Developers of the video streaming site YouTube have finally added a new feature to the website: it's called YouTube Annotations and you can see it here in action. It is subtext for […]
Sometimes, you may urgently need to send a fax across to someone but you do not have access to a fax machine. If this is the case, don’t worry. File-hosting site drop.io […]
Windows is creating a minidump whenever it's crashing. This minidump contains data that was stored in part of the memory. The interesting aspect of this procedure is that it's relatively easy to […]
Windows 7 will be the Microsoft’s 7th incarnation of their OS kernel, hence the name (yep, pretty clever). As it evolved with time each successive Windows release still contained many UI elements […]
Microsoft is making available a free add-on for Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Outlook 2003 running on Windows XP or Windows Vista called Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot that may be interesting for […]
Firefox 3 is making use of the installed virus scanner on Windows to scan downloads automatically after they have been fully downloaded to the system. This feature is only available on Windows […]
Ever wondered how energy friendly the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii were ? Or how a LCD monitor would fare against a good old CRT monitor ? Australian consumer group […]
I'm getting some very good tips from readers of my blog lately, it's really appreciated. This time it was Dark Kosmos who tipped me of on a new Firefox 3 extension called […]
I reviewed Workrave a while ago which displays notifications to PC users to take breaks regularly to prevent Repetitive Strain injuries. Off 4 Fit is another application that reminds PC users that […]
The newest version of Windows Live Writer has been released as a technical preview, primarily to showcase changes to the SDK. That isn’t to say this build is simply internal changes, you’ll […]
After the demise of Stage 6 and the disappearance of its unofficial successor Vreel it became apparent that it is difficulty to run a profitable video streaming portal. Veoh seems to be […]
Innovation usually gets blocked or slowed down by monopolies. A company with barely any competition can make decisions that concentrate more on the profits and less on the satisfaction of their customers. […]
With conventional music distribution methods becoming less and less effective with every year and the associated corporations increasingly desperate a growing group of services have been springing up to offer way for […]
Microsoft Outlook .pst (Personal Folder) files can be password protected with a -- very weak -- encryption algorithm. While it will keep computer users with no computing experience away from decoding the […]
Most of you are probably aware of Flock, the social networking browser. I first read about Flock in a PC magazine a few years ago, and didn't really comprehend what the whole […]
I was looking for an application that gave me lots of freedom when configuring the actions of the buttons of my Logitech mouse. I'm not a huge fan of bloated software packages […]
Outlook Express stores emails in so called dbx files which contain the present but also the deleted messages unless mail folders are compressed regularly. If a database file gets corrupted it does […]
It can happen that your new LCD monitor is having dead or stuck pixels which can be rather unfortunate depending on the location of the pixels and the laws of the country […]
Short question to get this article started: What is the main advantage of a circle based menu when compared to the usual rectangular menus in Windows ? Right, every menu entry is […]
Update: Please note that the project appears abandoned. It has not been updated for a long time and won't work in recent versions of the Firefox web browser anymore. Mozilla has added […]
Big Bug Bunny is the second Open Movie after Elephants Dream and it is really astonishing what a team of dedicated artists can create with a limited budget. The quality of the […]
You can do a lot more than simply changing your background and Screensaver in Windows Vista. Unfortunately you'll need some 3rd party applications to do it. Microsoft decided nearly a decade ago […]
Webmasters do not like Microsoft's Internet Explorer because of its inability to comply to web standards and the changes in various versions that make it extremely hard to code a website that […]
If you send information regularly to friends or colleagues using email you may find the Email This extension for Firefox quite handy. Lets say you want to share a website you just […]
Add-ins, Add-ons, Extensions and Plugins are a great way to extend the functionality of a product. The new features can be supplied by third party developers or by the initial developer. In […]
I discovered a nice website running a script that you can use to create a CD or DVD paper case with. The most basic version of the CD paper case you can […]
A few years ago the idea of cloud computing seemed vaguely absurd to me. I infinitely preferred using desktop software to any kind of online alternative and I hated the idea of […]
MakoButton is a small application that can create buttons for Internet Explorer that launch external applications or URLs when you click on them. While the second option is not that useful in […]
Blogtastique is a new service by Daniel, one of the resident writers here at Ghacks, which can probably be best described as a service to help beginning and advanced bloggers. The basic […]
