Update: Windows Live Messenger is not available anymore. This means that the skin cannot be used anymore as well. Microsoft seems to want to concentrate all efforts on the messaging service Skype […]
gHacks has a diverse range of editors, living in, among other places, the UK, Germany and Hungary. All write in the medium of English, but learning a foreign language is no easy […]
Some software programs are unpacked to both an msi and an exe setup file. If you are an end user you may wonder which -- or both? -- to execute to install […]
Beginner article coming up, it's time to get to know the wonderful world of CSS! Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is the standard method of styling a webpage. In fact, you should […]
I haven't really gotten myself into online photo editing and effects software because they usually fall behind Adobe Photoshop, but I tried one which is worthy of not just trying out, but […]
Rich Copy is a free file transfer software for Microsoft Windows created by Microsoft employee Ken Tamaru as an alternative to RoboCopy. Transferring files from one location to another can be a […]
If you are a teacher or have any need for a classroom-based Wiki project, I have the perfect solution for you. I discovered CourseForum a few years back when I was looking […]
Block Input is a small portable software program that can block both the computer mouse and computer keyboard for a certain period of time. There may be special situations where you want […]
Back in the days when I worked part time for a big financial company and ran Ghacks the rest of the time, I sometimes had to access Ghacks while I was at […]
SPKiller is a free program for Microsoft's Windows operating system that allows you to block processes and services on Windows. We reviewed a Windows process blocker just a few days ago which […]
Over the years I have seen the operating sytem evolve into and out of various types of fads. Most recently the operating system has toyed around with the idea of the Cloud […]
Bitlocker is an additional software component that got first distributed with Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise, and with professional versions of newer Windows systems as well. It can be used to […]
QR Codes can be described as two-dimensional barcodes which can be decoded quickly by scanners. Most mobile phones either ship with scanners included by default, or offer third-party apps that add QR […]
Internet Explorer 8 has just been released by Microsoft. Version eight of the web browser offers speed and stability improvements, better web standards support in comparison to previous versions of the browser, […]
Tag 2 Find is a free program for Microsoft Windows that helps you organize files on Windows devices through a tagging system. If you want to organize files on Windows, you have […]
I had relatives from out of the country a little while ago and before they left, one of them decided to leave his laptop behind for me. It's an old model from […]
Image Transloder is a free browser extension for the Firefox browser that enables you to upload web images to various image hosts. If you stumble upon images on websites regularly that you […]
Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 yesterday. This new version is regarded by many as a step in the right direction as it closes the gap, both speed and […]
If you take a look at the five most popular web browsers right now, you will notice huge differences in popularity among them. The web browsers in question are Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft […]
Windows Registry Watcher is a free portable software program for the Windows operating system that monitors and protects important Registry keys. The Windows Registry is one of the major attack locations for […]
While Google Mail (Gmail) is already able to display the new Office 2007 file formats such as xlsx, docx or pptx by converting them to HTML format so that they can be […]
While bandwidth prices are slowly declining, it is still quite common that some Internet Providers try to influence the traffic consumption of their customers by manipulating transfer speeds. One common method that Internet […]
Have you ever come across a website with no means of contacting the webmaster? This poses a problem if you want to or need to contact the webmaster. Maybe you want to […]
Yesterday we mentioned that Microsoft would release the final version of Internet Explorer 8 later that day on the official website. They did that which surprised many tech savvy users as it […]
My wife and I became hooked on the TV show "Lost" recently. As we were way behind we caught up by renting seasons 1-4. But then we ran out and fell behind […]
If you want to create a simple webpage for yourself, listing who you are, how you can be contected and what you do, you might want to add a few languages in […]
Using Linux, in one form or another, then you have dealt with one package manager or another. Be it apt, urpmi, dpkg, or rpm, they all have the same goal: Make package […]
Microsoft made an announcement earlier today that the final version of Internet Explorer 8 will be released today at noon EDT. The web browser can be downloaded from that time on from […]
Driver Sweeper is a free program for Microsoft Windows computer systems that enables you to remove device drivers completely. It is sometimes not possible to remove all device drivers and Registry settings […]
Hundreds of websites offer mapping services, which highlight roads, railways, streets and scores of other things. Most of these sites charge for commercial use of their data and almost certainly won't allow […]
Are you like me and one of those users who HATES going back and forth from keyboard to mouse? Such a waste of precious time that back and forth movement. To be […]
NK2View is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows computer systems that you may use to manage Outlook autocomplete data. Whenever you enter an email address in the to, cc or bcc […]
There is not really a standard out there for document presentation on websites. Many webmasters rely on widgets and scripts to display documents on their websites. This makes it sometimes confusing for […]
SubDude is a subtitle renamer designed for Windows to match subtitles with video files automatically, so that they get picked up by media players. If you have worked with subtitles before you […]
The Windows application Process Blocker has been designed to provide system administrators and computer technicians with a tool to prevent unauthorized programs from running on systems the tool runs on. that can […]
Songs Cleanup is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to clean up tags used by songs of the iTunes music library. Apple iTunes is one of the most popular media managers […]
If you are an Apache user for the hosting of either internal or external web sites then you know how flexible this web server can be. But did you know you can […]
Win DJ View is a document viewer for the djvu file format for Microsoft Windows devices to access djvu documents. Djvu is is a digital document format that uses compression technologies to […]
Audiobook Sleep is a free portable software program for Microsoft Windows devices that shuts down the PC after playing an audiobook for a set amount of time. Do you like to listen […]
IE Privacy Manager is a free Windows program that enables you to modify several privacy-related settings of Internet Explorer. When I worked for one of the largest German financial companies we had […]
