I started using Nero Burning Rom back in the days of the - super expensive - CD burners. It was an excellent CD burning software program but deteriorated into a resource hungry […]
As you can probably guess my machines are in a constant state of flux. Having to write about one distribution after another (and then include the scattered Windows content to cover) makes […]
Hundreds of different solutions exist to reduce the resolution of photos by resizing the images; these solutions are available as software programs but also online services. Quality is usually not an issue […]
Winsock, which stands for Windows Sockets Api, defines how networking software should access network services. Many users come into contact with Winsock after experiencing connection problems that are usually related to Winsock. […]
You might have experienced a situation in the past where Windows asked you to put the original Windows installation CD into a computer drive to continue. This could have been the result […]
On top of being a technical writer I am also a writer of novels. Writing novels is a much different beast than writing tutorials, reviews, and documentation. Writing novels requires some serious […]
Doc Update is a brand new software program that has been uploaded to Sourceforge recently. The Open Source tool can be used to display document updates not only from the active user […]
Google Image Search is a very comprehensive image search engine. It basically works the same way as the standard Google search with the difference that image thumbnails are displayed as results on […]
I recently found the need to install Ubuntu on a machine with a poor CD drive (and no USB ports) that could not read large amounts of data, but could manage to […]
If you've read enough of my Ghacks tutorials you have most likely come across mention of a LAMP server. If you are not sure what a LAMP server is: Linux Apache MySQL […]
Mouse gestures can be a way to increase the productivity of a user working on a computer system. Especially if they are not limited to one software program but work everywhere. Some […]
The majority of computer users use a combination of a computer keyboard and computer mouse for text input. Some make use of lesser popular and specialized text input methods that include touchscreens, […]
It can happen that an installation of software in Windows fails. Reasons for it failing can be numerous from mundane reasons like running out of hard disk space to more serious ones […]
We reviewed a small command line application a few days ago that could be used to grab all images that have been posted to one of the boards over at the popular […]
Log Viewer Pro is a portable software program for the Microsoft Windows operating system that is able to load and display log files. Its main benefits are the low memory usage and […]
If you have been reading my tutorials on Ghacks long enough you will have seen mention of the Synaptic package manager quite often. There's a good reason for this - the Synaptic […]
Computer costs can add up fast. You need anti-virus software, you need a word processing suite, you need several anti-spyware programs, etc. Each of these programs can cost you from 20 up […]
Have you ever wondered how and why your computer operates as it does? Why does it turn on and load the operating system? It is working because of the computer software that […]
Update: MyDefrag shut down on October 2015. The program, which has not received updates in a little over five years and the forum are no longer available. The reason given by the […]
The recent sale of the popular torrent hosting website The Piratebay to Swedish company Global Gaming Factory was a surprise to the userbase of the website. Many feared that this change of […]
The calculator can be downloaded as a portable version or installer for most Windows operating systems including Windows XP and Windows Vista with the likelihood that it will also work fine in […]
Update: Please note that Microsoft made last-minute modifications to Windows 7. The operating system shipped with a browser ballot in Europe that allowed users from the EU to select and install one […]
2008 was Microsoft’s worst year to date in terms of press coverage. In no small part to Vista, Windows Mobile (lack of development), XP downgrade fiasco and not to mention all the […]
Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for July 2009 which contains security patches for several Microsoft products. Six security patches are provided by Microsoft this time that include three rated critical […]
Problems with a raid setup are often very hard to fix, especially if the user is inexperienced when it comes to it. This can be the case for instance if the raid […]
Apache is one of the most popular web servers available. And most Apache installations are running on Linux servers. Anyone running Linux will tell you that the operating system (be it on […]
It is not only web designers who need to create image thumbnails regularly. There are many situations where image thumbnails come in handy starting from blogging and publishing websites to PowerPoint presentations […]
The importance of web browsers has risen in past years especially with the shift from desktop applications to web based applications and services. Web browsers are not just tools anymore only that […]
Drive Manager is a portable software program for the Windows operating system that helps users manag and identify connected drives. Drives in this regard is every hardware device with its own drive […]
The report then needs to be uploaded to the GSI Parser website once the report has been generated. The online parser will analyze the report and display various information about the computer […]
If you are sharing a desktop computer with several users you might be interested in knowing the login and logout time of each user on the system. It could also be interesting […]
I'm pretty excited about the upcoming launch of Windows 7, Microsoft's next operating system. Not only because I'm running a very successful Windows 7 blog but also because I finally have the […]
Update: The program IClean has last been updated in 2007. While it may still work on your system, it is highly suggested to user a different program for the job. You can […]
Many news websites, bloggers and even conventional news sources such as newspapers or TV news have reported about the Microsoft killer Google Chrome OS, the cloud based operating system by Google that […]
Webmasters need a local html file so that it can be loaded into the software program. The easiest way to achieve this is to go to the website that should be validated, […]
So far we’ve heard quite a bit of comparisons between the webOS platform and OSX (for the iPhone), as well as Android vs. OSX. But so far, comparisons between both Android and […]
There were always rumors that Google was developing an operating system. We are not speaking about Google Android, the operating system that is being installed on mobile devices like cellphones. No, this […]
It is inevitable that IPv6 addresses are going to eventually take over. When that happens you will need to know just how to assign an IPv6 address in your Linux operating system. […]
If you have to explain a concept to someone you better make sure to match their proficiency level so that they actually understand what you are talking about. If you work in […]
The VideoLan team today announced the release of version 1.0.0 of their popular media player VLC Media Player. The major release introduces many few features, formats and codecs to VLC and fixes […]
