Conky is a highly customizable system monitor for Linux
A couple of months ago, we introduced you to a Windows program called Sidebar Diagnostics; this time, we are going to take a look at a similar program for Linux. Conky must […]
Extract images and other content from Office documents with this simple trick
Here is a quick tip to extract images and other content from Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, or OpenOffice documents among others. While it is possible to save images embedded in Office documents in […]
Notepad++ 7.8 update released after server incident
Notepad++ 7.8 is now available; the new version of the text and code editor for Windows is the first new version of the application after a server incident in July that took […]
OBS Studio is an open source video recorder and streaming app for Windows, Linux and macOS
OBS Studio aka Open Broadcaster Software Studio is very popular among YouTube users. You can use it to broadcast gameplay streams live or use it to record videos (which you may then […]
Firefox 69.0.3 fixes download issues
Firefox 69.0.3 will be released to the Stable channel later today. The new version of the web browser addresses two issues, a download issue and a Yahoo Mail issue. Mozilla released Firefox […]
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The Complete SEO & Backlink Master Course provides webmasters, Internet marketers, and beginning search engine optimizers with information on improving a site's visibility in search engines. It covers important information such as […]
First look at CCleaner's Health Check feature
Piriform, maker of the popular temporary file cleaner CCleaner, started to integrate a new Health Check feature in the latest version of the client. The release notes of CCleaner 5.62.7538 reveal that […]
How to get your YouTube History deleted automatically
The video streaming site YouTube keeps track of every video that a user watches on the site and every search that is made. It uses the information for its recommendation engine that […]
Celluloid is a really good mpv frontend for Linux
If you are a Linux user who wants a front-end for the popular MPV video player, Celluloid may be your best bet. I installed the application via flatpak but you can find […]
Opera 64 launches with built-in tracker blocker
Opera Software released Opera 64 Stable to the public this week; the new browser features several improvements including a new tracker blocking feature. The company integrated native ad-blocking functionality in Opera 37 […]
Hide Private Mode for Firefox prevents private browsing mode detection
Hide Private Mode is a brand new extension for the Firefox web browser that closes a private browsing mode detection loophole that sites use to detect if the browser is in private […]
Where are desktop backgrounds (wallpapers) stored in Windows 10?
The Windows 10 operating system comes with a set of wallpapers and the ability to refresh wallpapers regularly from a pool of images. The following guide provides users of Windows 10 with […]
Microsoft Windows Security Updates October 2019 overview
Microsoft released security and non-security updates for the Microsoft Windows operating system and other company products on October 8, 2019. Our overview of the monthly release of patches provides administrators and home […]
Ghacks Deals: iMazing iOS Device Manager: Universal License for Mac & Windows (77% off)
iMazing is a software application for Mac and Windows devices that you may use to manage iPhone, iOS and iPad devices. The program works without jailbreaking and may be used to transfer […]
Thunderbird to support OpenPGP encryption standard in 2020
The next major version of the open source cross-platform email client Thunderbird will support the OpenPGP encryption standard natively. Thunderbird users may use the extension Enigmail currently to use OpenPGP functionality in […]
VeraCrypt 1.24 encryption software update released
The developers of the open source cross-platform encryption software VeryCrypt released version 1.24 of the software on October 6, 2019 to the public. We reviewed a beta version of VeraCrypt 1.24 in […]
Link Gopher is a Firefox add-on that can extract links from webpages
Most websites have tons of links in their pages. Some of these may be used as internal links to pages within the same website while others are outbound links to other resources. […]
Ghacks has a new owner, and that is good for everyone
TLDR; Softonic acquired ghacks.net. I remain editor of the site and all writers remain on board. We have full editorial control over the content and articles will be published just like before. […]