Microsoft released a preview of the Windows Package Manager today during the virtual Build 2020 conference. Windows administrators may use it to install first-party and third-party programs such as 7-Zip, KeePass, Arduino […]
We have reviewed many image editors here on Ghacks. Some of them are user-friendly, others not so much. Recently, we reviewed zzPaint and a GIMP update. Pictor is kind of a mixed […]
Have you ever wondered what the color code of a background or logo is? It's not possible to be very specific about it just by looking at it. The best way is […]
3D Buzz was a community website for game developers and designers, and users interested in becoming developers or designers. Apart from the community aspect, it was home to a huge number of […]
Linux Mint 19.3 has been released. The update of the popular Linux distribution is available in the flavors Xfce, Mate and Cinnamon as usually. The new version of the Linux distribution is […]
ShareX is the favorite screenshot tool of many users but many are also using built-in screenshot tools like the Windows Snipping Tool or other third-party solutions such as Martin's current favorite PicPick. […]
Recently we tested out an easy to use image editor called Zzpaint which we liked even though it was a relatively simple program. Today, I'm going to look at LazPaint which is […]
A new version of the privacy and anonymity focused Linux distribution Tails has been released this week; Tails 4.0 is a major update of the Linux distribution that improves performance and usability, […]
Inkscape and GIMP are excellent graphics editor programs but they have a learning curve;Â I prefer something simpler like Paint.Net myself as it ticks all the right boxes. If you want something that's […]
There are plenty of situations where you may need to resize an image or multiple images, e.g. when you want to share images online, create wallpapers that match the screen resolution, create […]
Many people in the technology world have heard, at least in passing, of the Linux distribution Gentoo. Gentoo is one of the most famous distributions to the point of becoming a joke; […]
Image Resizer by Promo is a free online service that takes source images or photos and turns them into perfectly sized images for social media. Most social media sites give its users […]
Paint.net 4.1.6 was released earlier today. The new version of the image editor for Windows comes with performance improvements, new features, and several fixes. Paint.net is my image editor of choice. I […]
The developer of the image editor Paint.net released version 4.1.5 of the application for Microsoft's Windows operating system today. The new version of Paint.net is available on the Microsoft Store and as […]
Microsoft plans to unlock uninstall options for more native applications that the company's Windows 10 operating system comes with by default. Native applications provide users of the operating system with all kinds […]
Paint.net 4.1 is out; the new version of the popular image editor for Windows introduces new functionality and changes that improve the user experience. The new version is the first desktop release […]
One of the many tedious tasks when setting up a new system, or if you've just installed new software to replace something you used previously, is to change the default software used […]
As a Journalist by day, and awesome cave dwelling Linux nerd by night, I take a lot of photographs with my Nikon D3300. That said, there are the obvious tools by Adobe […]
I wrote an article a while ago about how KDE was being removed as an official flavour of Linux Mint past 18.3, and so I thought perhaps a quick review of 18.3 […]
You may use the free OneShot for Windows program to annotate images, for instance by adding text or arrow icons to them. If you use a screenshot tool like SnagIt or one […]
So, you’ve made the switch from Windows or MacOSX to GNU/Linux, congratulations! There is a good chance that you’ve also installed a distribution like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, or perhaps Manjaro; and […]
GNU/Linux users are well aware of the fact that many pieces of software commonly used in Microsoft Windows, do not function for us using things like WINE; and so we must find […]
Debian, the father of Ubuntu, the grandfather of Linux Mint, and one of the most popular server distributions of all time, went through a time of turmoil when the decision was made […]
This time around we will be looking at KDE: powerful, graphically beautiful, and filled with an array of useful software; but the most resource intensive of the major desktop environments. KDE has […]
Manjaro has always been one of my personal favourite distributions of GNU/Linux, it combines the speed and power of Arch Linux and its Pacman and AUR repositories, with the user friendliness and […]
UCheck is a free and professional program for Microsoft Windows devices that checks installed software for updates semi-automatically. Windows, apart from apps that come from Windows Store, does not ship with options […]
Microsoft is working on a new version of Microsoft Paint for Windows 10 that it plans to release in the future to replace the classic Paint program with. Paint is one of […]
Just-Install is a command line driven program for Windows that enables you to batch install a selection of programs on the operating system it is run on. The Windows operating system does […]
If you like Windows freeware, chance is that you stumbled upon Samer Kurdi's website Freeware Genius before. He is been in hiatus for the most part in the past two or so […]
The following guide lists essential software that you may want to install on a a Windows 10 system. This is particularly useful for systems that are set up anew as programs are […]
The software project hosting website Sourceforge started to offer a new monetization option to projects hosted on the site in mid-2013 when it introduced install-wrappers which enabled projects to add third-party offers […]
Sourceforge, a prominent project hosting website, began to wrap some software downloads on the site in installers that included unrelated third-party offers. This new way of delivering downloads to users affected only […]
Welcome to the best screenshot capture software overview. Please note that this guide looks solely at screenshot taking tools and not at video capturing programs. If you are interested in the latter, […]
Taking screenshots of programs and services is part of my job. When I started to write on the Web, I used the print-key to create the screenshots to edit the captured screen […]
The Best Windows Software Toplist On this page, you find a listing of the best Windows software. Most of the applications listed here are free, with the occasional commercial program added to […]
Primg is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices that allows you to print images as thumbnails, individual images, or fixed forms. I cannot say that I have printed a lot of […]
Most Android devices ship with beautiful wallpaper images by default that are displayed as the phone's or tablet's background picture. While that is certainly appealing, some users may prefer a less distracting […]
One of the things that I do not like in regards to Windows 8's new startpage is the lack of customization options. Microsoft has added lots of custom - and mostly silly […]
So you have made the jump and installed Windows 8 on a computer, or, you are planning to buy a tablet, laptop or desktop PC running Microsoft's latest operating system. If this […]
Animated gifs were fairly popular in the beginning days of the Internet when webmasters tried to spruce up their websites with an assortment of blinking annoying animations. That time has passed though […]
