This new free software package is an all in one stop to help you speed up you PC in many different ways. There are built-in suggestions to fix registry errors, defragment drives […]
News about big hacks and the publication of user databases have slowed down considerably in past months. Before that, reports of hacks were nearly daily in the news with companies like Sony, […]
There is no way to hide or protect applications in the Windows operating system so that users with local access to the operating system cannot see and access them. While some applications […]
When you look at the top five web browsers on today's Internet, which are undoubtedly Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari you will notice that all but one reduce their […]
I'm using WinSCP to transfer files from and to my web servers. The free sftp client offers everything that I could possibly need, and has never let me down. Not everyone likes […]
The popular file synchronization and hosting service Dropbox encrypts all uploaded files and folders automatically to protect network snooping and other forms of attack and unauthorized access to those files. Dropbox recently […]
After finding out that there might have been a security breach at LastPass, a company known for their online password management solution, I quickly changed my master password and started to think […]
True System Security Tweaker offers to change, enable or disable more than 450 security related settings in Windows. The portable application concentrates on user restrictions that are grouped into categories in the […]
Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser available for Mac and PC as well as Android and several other operating systems. Firefox has built its focus around a practical, minimalist design and […]
I have recently been dealing with LDAP and attempting to find easier solutions for this often daunting task. If you've ever had to try to set up and manage an LDAP server, […]
ClipUpload is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to upload whatever is stored in the clipboard to various services or servers. The main intention of posting data to the clipboard is […]
The right archiving software may sometimes be out of reach to unpack an archive. This can be the case when using a public computer in an Internet Cafe or library for instance. […]
I have been bragging to everyone how user-friendly Fedora has become with it's most recent release for a while now. Some people are prone to believe me and some are not. No […]
Game Anywhere is another software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to create copies of game saves and configurations. It works in this regard much like the previously […]
Evolution is the groupware suite for the Linux operating system. It is, for all intents and purposes, Outlook for Linux. The only downfall is, out of the box, it doesn't play well […]
There are a lot of backup tools out there. From the overly simple to the overly complex. Many of those backup tools go unnoticed and unused. Some of them get recognized as […]
Once more unto the KDE topic my friends, once more. This time, however, we take a look at a very useful feature that allows you to easily share out folders with a […]
Private browsing is a relative new mode that has been added to several popular web browsers recently. It allows a user to interact with the web browser like in normal mode but […]
Recently I covered the MySQL GUI tool MySQL Administrator (see the article "Create a database with MySQL Administrator"). However, this tool was just given the official EOL (End of Life) announcement by […]
Today's Christmas Giveaway is a split review and giveaway of Perfect Image 12 and Partition Commander 11. Both software programs are developed by Avanquest and serve different purposes. Perfect Image 12 is […]
Security Tool is a so-called rogue antivirus software that is distributed by various means including malicious software like trojans. It is also distributed through popups on the Internet which display a fake […]
RSS has become such a common source of information for us information junkies. Whether you are following Ghacks via RSS, your favorite news site, or your favorite blog, it's nice to be […]
Facebook is currently the most popular social networking website on the Internet. The social networking service had more than 2 billion monthly active users in the third-quarter of 2017. Facebook login problems […]
A friend recently asked me a bunch of questions about PC security. How dangerous email was, how people could attack a website and so forth. The answers to his questions led to […]
Microsoft Fix It is a relative new way of solving problems that occur in the Windows operating system. These fix it solutions are basically one-click solutions for fixing problems. The Fix It […]
The data storage software Gladinet allows Windows users to mount cloud storage as local folders in Windows Explorer. Supported are online storage services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Google Picasa, Windows […]
OpenOffice.org 2 GoogleDocs is an Open Office extension that is compatible with OpenOffice.org 2.0.4+ or StarOffice 8+. It provides import and export options for Google Docs, Zoho or WebDAV servers from withing […]
Blogger Backup provides users who have a Blogger account and website with an option to backup their Blogger blog. If you run a blog at blogspot you probably wondered how you can […]
Update: This is the news archive for all Firefox 3 updates that we have reviewed in the past. Firefox 3 is no longer supported by Mozilla. You can download the latest version […]
Whenever I open the Task Manager I see the processes csrss.exe, smss.exe and lsass.exe sitting there. I guess the same can be said for your Windows where those processes are most likely appearing as well. So, what are these processes actually doing and are they required to run whenever Windows starts ?
The title of this article might be a little confusing at first glance. Why would someone want to scan files in a directory for certain strings and output them in a new file ? Few ideas come to my mind why this could be useful. Imagine that you were surfing a website with lots of images that you liked very much. You could download those images manually or use the software Win Text File Patch to scan all files in your browsers cache for a certain string and output them in a new file.
If you are an early adopter and don't want to wait a few more days to download and install the email client Thunderbird you could head out to the Mozilla ftp and download it for your operating system and language right away. The Mozilla team is usually upping the latest version of either Thunderbird or Firefox on their ftp mirrors to ensure that they can serve the server load when they publish the links on the official program pages. This is indeed a good way to download Thunderbird 2 fast because the servers will not be that populated at this time.
Since I started blogging two years ago I came upon thousands of essential, ultimate and top freeware lists but only few really had a lasting impact on the internet community. Most are forgotten the next day and everyone heads on to the next list in line. It does not make sense to simply write another essential list, it does however make sense when I'm concentrating this list on freeware and Open source that I have reviewed here at ghacks. I reviewed more than 360 freeware and Open Source products which could be seen as a preselection.
You have some friends or business partners that you want to share data with but have no website with enough space and don't want to use p2p as well ? One simple way to share files of any size is to use the HTTP File Server which emulates a basic file server on your home computer. The server can be run in public or private mode and it is normally a very good idea to run it in private mode.
