As a webmaster it pays to pay attention to trends and upcoming technologies that may help you improve the performance or other site metrics. Google's WebP image format promises better file compression […]
Google and Microsoft offered free custom email domain support in the past. You could set up Google Apps to use a custom domain name that you owned for emails, and Microsoft offered […]
When you analyze how popular browser companies deliver updates to end user systems, you will notice that most use the Task Scheduler on Windows for that. This is the case for Google […]
CCleaner is a popular temporary file cleaning software for Windows and Mac computer systems. The company behind the product has released a version of CCleaner for Android that interested users can download […]
Several Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the US are pressuring Netflix to pay money to ensure the optimal delivery of Netflix streams to customers. Brian over at Betanews thinks that Netflix should […]
So, browser plugins of old have to die, that is the stance of Google and to a lesser extent Mozilla. The web is moving towards a plugin-less reality, and while companies that […]
When Mozilla launched Persona under the name BrowserID back in 2012, it had big plans for the authentication service. The primary goal was to make the authentication process on the web safer, […]
Microsoft changed things around quite a bit in Windows 8 in comparison to previous systems the company released. One of the major changes on the desktop part of the system was the […]
The rumor mill on the Internet has been buzzing lately again. Sites like The Verge or ZDNet report that Microsoft is considering giving away a special version of Windows 8 for free […]
Amazon is one of the biggest shopping sites on the Internet, and while you find great deals quite often on it, there is always room for improvement. If you happen to shop […]
One of the few changes that Microsoft made to the desktop part of the Windows 8 operating system was a redesigned Windows Explorer interface. Microsoft renamed the default file browser to File […]
Mailbox.org is a new email service by the German company Heinlein Support GMBH which features several interesting security and privacy related features, and based on Open-Xchange version 7.4.2. The homepage of the […]
I usually do not review smartphones here on Ghacks. mostly because I do not have access to samples that I can review, but also because it is not really something that I […]
VBulletin is a popular forum software that you find used by many large websites on the Internet. It is not free, unlike others such as phpBB, PHPWind, or Vanilla, with licenses starting […]
Welcome to the overview of Microsoft's January 2014 patch Tuesday. Microsoft has released a total of four bulletins on the first patch day of the year 2014, all of which have received […]
If you compare how Windows 8 has been doing until now to how Windows 7 did in its first two years of existence, you will come to the conclusion that it did […]
News broke today that Mozilla has -- once again -- delayed the delivery of the so called Metro version of the Firefox web browser on Windows 8. The version that you can […]
Most Internet users on the desktop make use of a web browser for all Internet related tasks. They hang out on Facebook or Twitter, browse shopping websites, download files to their system, […]
When it comes to customizing the browser user interface, Chrome was always one of the browsers that did not allow many changes. In fact, it is one of the least modifiable browsers […]
Social Media has grown quite a bit in recent time, with apps readily available at all times to inform users about new posts, photos, and other information at all times. A lot […]
Unchecky is a free program for Windows computer systems that has been designed to prevent unwanted software installations automatically. Free is not always that, as you often pay with something else to […]
There are a couple of situations where you may want to record part of or all of your desktop on video. Maybe you want to create a tutorial for others and upload […]
For a long time, Mozilla Firefox did not support H.264 in HTML5 which meant that you could not access all of the videos on YouTube if you switched on the HTML5 beta […]
One of the first things that I check when I want to sign up for a cloud-powered service is to make sure that I can export my data back to my system […]
RSS is the best way in my opinion to keep an eye on everything that is hot in a particular niche on the Internet in the shortest amount of time possible. I […]
When you connect to a website on the Internet connections are usually not only made to the site, but also to third party servers and websites. This does not have to be […]
The RSS reading service Feedly has become a popular services in the wake of the Google Reader shutdown. Quite a number of factors attributed to the success of the service: the willingness […]
As I pointed out numerous times before: speed is important for any kind of operation on the Internet as a better loading performance will improve conversions on your websites. Mozilla managed to […]
If you are using the Google Chrome browser you may have noticed that images on select websites, many Google properties like Google Play for example, display images in Google's webp format and […]
Internet Explorer 11 is the newest version of the default system browser of the Windows operating system. It ships with Windows 8.1, the update to Windows 8 that will be released to […]
Slowly but surely, browser maker Mozilla is rolling out its own mobile operating system, and prospective buyers can already grab a handset -- the ZTE Open and Alcatel One are available through […]
If you hear Balrog, you are probably thinking Lord of the Rings, or maybe even of the Street Fighter character of the same name (also known as M.Bison), but certainly not of […]
Back in the pre-Internet days, you had two options in regards to buying computer hardware. You could head out to a local store and see what was on offer there, or use […]
Google's drive for profitability in most of its services resulted in the discontinuation of several popular services. Google Reader is probably the most prominent example, but there have been dozens of other […]
When it comes to making the sign in process more secure than it is by default, 2-factor authentication seems to be the way to go for many Internet companies. This adds another […]
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia came as a surprise to many who stayed up late yesterday or woke up this morning to read the news on their favorite tech blogs or news sites. […]
One of the effects of the PRISM revelation is that we have seen an increase in "secure" or "private-orientated" applications and services, or at the very least the announcement of these services. […]
Microsoft announced that it will shut down Games for Windows Live on July 1, 2014. The service will run as is until then, but when that day comes, it may have consequences […]
A single image on a website can make the difference between a fast loading site and a slow loading one. The same is true for documents in regards to the storage they […]
Bluebox Security some time ago discovered a vulnerability in nearly every Android device released in the last four years that allowed attackers to modify code of legitimate applications without breaking their cryptographic […]
