Later today, Mozilla will release an update that will bring the stable channel of the Firefox browser to version 26. As with all stable updates before, we have taken a very close […]
The Best Windows Software Toplist On this page, you find a listing of the best Windows software. Most of the applications listed here are free, with the occasional commercial program added to […]
My mother needs a notebook, and I promised to get her one for Christmas. Since this is her first mobile computer -- she only used desktop PCs until now -- I had […]
Microsoft has announced a refresh of the company's Surface series today. The Surface 2 is the successor of the Surface RT device running Windows RT, and the Surface Pro 2 the successor […]
Animated gifs are not dead even though they serve a different purpose these days than back in the beginning days of the Internet where it was en vogue to have at least […]
I have been running the freeware F.Lux on all of my PCs ever since I discovered the program in 2009. It adapts the color of the computer display to the time of […]
I was asked about my daily workflow in regards to this site and also about the services and programs that I use throughout the day. While I do not think that you […]
Ah, the demo scene. I got hooked into the scene back when my parents bought me my first Amiga 500. While I started to play games 24/7 more or less in the […]
Microsoft has optimized the boot cycle of the Windows 8 operating system so that long-used features such as hitting F8 for the advanced boot menu no longer work properly. While the feature […]
The popular file hosting and synchronizing service Dropbox is setting the course for an expansion of their service. While its hosting and syncing offer is popular and well accepted, it lacks a […]
As a journalist, I take dozens of screenshots a day. Each article that I publish online has at least one screenshot that I take by myself. While Windows ships with options to […]
Sometimes you may want to burn video files that you have on your PC to DVD or another disc format to play them on a DVD player connected to the television or […]
Two Twitter news in less than 24 hours here on Ghacks, that is a new record. The company yesterday announced that it would unleash its new profile page on all users of […]
So you have made the jump and installed Windows 8 on a computer, or, you are planning to buy a tablet, laptop or desktop PC running Microsoft's latest operating system. If this […]
MediaFire is one of the largest file hosting sites that is still standing after the Megaupload fallout. The service is especially well liked by users who download from it, as it does […]
A sync client is something that many users of cloud hosting services have come to expect to be offered from the services that they use in recent times. We have seen established […]
The sheer amount of different media formats out there in today's connected world makes it difficulty for users to have access to these files in all situations. While it may not be […]
With Maxton's latest version taking over Google Chrome's place in the HTML5 Test, I thought it would be a good idea to offer a closer look at some of the features that […]
Computer users have several options at their disposal when it comes to note taking. They can take the conventional route and use post-its, paper or any other form of physical notes. While […]
Have you ever had issues with the mouse cursor being in the way when you started to type on your computer? Since you usually activate the text field with the mouse, for […]
Have you ever noticed that the mouse cursor tends to get in the way when you are editing text in your operating system or on the web? It happens that the cursor […]
It's been delayed and delayed further, but despite no official confirmation from RIM the long-anticipated version 2 of the company's QNX operating system for the Blackberry Playbook is due to be released […]
Windows 8 is unique in that it is the first version of Microsoft's mighty operating system that faces serious and stiff competition from its rivals. For the first time there are not […]
Last year I picked up an HP Touchpad in the fire sale that resulted in the model, and all of HP's tablet plans, being discontinued. Now RIM appear to be doing similiar with […]
If you ever wanted to create a stunning photo slideshow for your own personal use or for distribution, you'd probably discovered that it can be quite difficult to find the right program […]
Most computer users know that they can take a screenshot of the screen with a tap on the print key on their keyboard. And while that's sometimes all they need, it is […]
In the world of media players, it often seems the sun doesn't shine on anything new. Between Windows Media Player, Winamp, RealPlayer, VLC, and iTunes, it seems as though everybody has maximum […]
When you download music from the Internet, you may sometimes download file formats that your default audio player, mobile phone or mp3 player does not support. Maybe it is a Flac, Ogg […]
Laptops come in all shapes and sizes these days from tiny netbooks to sexy ultraportables and everyday value machines. Then however there are the workstations. These laptops are designed with the needs of […]
Ashampoo Core Tuner 2 is a commercial program for Windows designed to improve the performance of important processes running on the computer it is executed on. Have you ever noticed choppy videos, […]
I'm usually not reviewing commercial services for obvious reasons, but I'd like to make an exception today. I was looking for an A-B testing service that would allow me to test web […]
Simple things that get the job done are often a better choice than powerful tools that may be complicated to use. This could have been what the developer of MooO VoiceRecorder had […]
Update: WordPress 3.2 is an old release. You can download the most recent release of WordPress from the official website. Two WordPress releases in short time, that puts some pressure on system […]
I'm frequently getting articles submitted as Word documents. These documents include pictures and the text, and I somehow have to save the pictures to my local drive before I can upload them […]
Paint.net is an incredibly powerful image editor for Windows. Some Windows users are not installing the program because of its dependence on version 3.5 SP1 of Microsoft's .Net Framework. While that's bundled […]
Update: Google Cloud Connect is no longer available. An alternative is to install Google Drive and open, edit and save documents using it in Microsoft Office. How are you managing your documents? […]
Gmail is a free ad-supported web-mail service supporting both POP3 and IMAP4 email protocols. It is provided by Google, the company that runs the search engine website of the same name. Gmail […]
The majority of computer users uses computers at least partially to work with documents and spreadsheets. Microsoft Word is still one of the most popular text editing applications on the Windows operating […]
In my recent exploration of various file managers I realized that my favorite of the lot hadn't received the attention it deserves. Here on Ghacks I have shown you how to do […]
Free Audio Editor on first glance looks like just any other audio editor for Windows. Similar to Audacity but not Open Source one would assume. It quickly becomes obvious that the audio […]
