Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
The introduction of cloud hosting services such as Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive have made it fairly easy for computer users to synchronize data between multiple devices. All that is required […]
Managing a collection of ebooks on your desktop system, be it Windows,Linux or Mac, may not be the easiest thing to do due to a lack of programs that let you do […]
When you enter queries into Firefox's address bar, you will receive results depending on what you have entered. If you enter an url for instance, Firefox attempts to load the address in […]
Google's Chromecast is a $35 device that provides you with the means to stream media contents to supported devices such as televisions or audio receivers. While Google makes available a lot of […]
Much of what I have bought in the past couple of years, maybe even the last ten years, has been bought on Internet shopping sites and not local stores. While I'm probably […]
EasyNetMonitor offers a simple solution to monitor local or remote locations if you are running Windows. All you need to do is download the program before you can run it from any […]
One of the great features of YouTube is that you can subscribe to users and channels you are interested in. If you do so on site, you receive update notifications on your […]
Most desktop PCs ship with an optical drive, usually either a DVD drive or a Blu-Ray drive while mobile PCs may not always ship with one. Especially tablets, netbooks and other low […]
For some time now I have used the search engine StartPage as the main search engine in Firefox. While I switch regularly to other search engines such as DuckDuckGo, it is StartPage […]
When userscripts.org launched back in 2005 it quickly became one of my favorite destinations on the Internet. It is a repository for userscripts, small JavaScript files that manipulate website behavior. From simple […]
Update: We have published a new NoScript guide for Firefox 57 and newer. One of the core reasons why I'm using the Firefox web browser on my desktop PC and not another […]
I have been using KeePass as my password manager ever since I decided that I wanted full control over my password database. Before that, I have used online password managers like LastPass, […]
Whenever I copy information to the clipboard, I do so for one of several different purposes. I copy information to paste it again, a link or quote for example, or, I may […]
The image forums on Reddit (subreddits) belong to the most popular groups on the site. If you browse the frontpage of the website at any time, you find dozens of entries from […]
Its the time of the year where people start to send a lot of packages around. I'm not saying that this does not also happen at other times, but the Christmas season […]
If you have a lot of emails stored in the Thunderbird email client, you may have noticed two things: that the emails are taking quite the chunk of disk space, and that […]
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 […]
Avast has just released the 2014 update to all of its security products. We have reviewed the beta version of Avast Free Antivirus back when it was released for public testing, and […]
While you can make use of specialized system admin tools to find out which devices have been connected to a local area network in the past, it is not really something that […]
One of the big advantages of eBay over other marketplaces is that you can sign in to all of its websites using a single account. This work similar to how Amazon handles […]
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 […]
Back in the days when the first offline solutions for Wikipedia were introduced, you often did not have enough space on your mobile device to really add a larger section of the […]
The Internet is still alive and kicking even though the world has run out of IP addresses. There was some craze about this some time ago but it has somehow died off […]
Microsoft released a preview of Windows 8.1 yesterday which interested users can install on their systems. It is not really recommended to do so on productive systems, considering that you will lose […]
Sometimes you may want to download a website, or part of it, to your local system. Maybe you want to make use of the contents while you are offline, or for safekeeping […]
Most web browsers make downloading a large quantity of images an unpleasant experience. While there are tools available that improve the downloading significantly, like the excellent Bulk Image Downloader for Windows, Image […]
If you work on multiple computer systems, some local some remote, you may have encountered situations where you'd want one of your remote machines to handle a task. Maybe you discovered a […]
Back in January 2013 I started to investigate a matter about ownership changes on Mozilla's Add-on repository where a company offered add-on developers money to take over their projects. In this case, […]
If you have tried to access the Ghacks website this morning you may have noticed that the site was not accessible at all. You either should have received an Apache page or […]
TripleA is an open source Axis and Allies boardgame remake for the PC. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux systems and requires Java to run. If you never came into […]
One of the first apps to land in Windows Store that allowed you to unpack archives was WinZip, and like the desktop application it was not available free of charge. What users […]
When it comes to Internet Radio you have a couple of options to find stations that you are interested in. You can browse the websites of individual stations, like Digitally Imported for […]
Bittorrent Sync is a new file synchronization software for local area networks and remote servers based on the popular Bittorrent protocol that was announced a week ago. The program is not publicly […]
A report by security company Rapid7 on Tuesday brought attention to a set of vulnerabilities in UPnP that puts millions of users at risk. According to the research paper, more than 80 […]
Having access to Wikipedia can be helpful in a lot of cases. Maybe you are at school and currently using it for research or in a foreign country or city that you […]
PowerShell is a command line scripting language for Windows that Microsoft has designed with system administrators in mind. It empowers Windows users to control and automate administrative tasks on systems running Windows. […]
If you want to preserve information that you have come across on the Internet you have multiple options to do just that. You can save the web page in various formats including […]
Pandora Radio is a popular audio streaming website that is currently only available for users connecting from the United States (either directly or through the use of a proxy). It recently became […]
I can't think of many situations where you may want to look up IP address information when you are offline. Two possible options include analyzing a log file, for instance that of […]
If you do not trust cloud hosting services, or want to make available large amounts of data, you are usually better of using a service that lets you host your own cloud […]
