Okay I spend most of the weekend trying to find out why my RSS news feed was not displaying for many of my readers, and why I would get all kinds of […]
Perspectives is a research project to improve SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-path Network Probing by researchers of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. The title of the research surely sounds […]
Comodo Registry Cleaner is an advanced Registry tool from Comodo, a company probably best known for its free firewall program. The Registry Cleaner is offered as a beta release currently only on […]
The first question that should be addresses is why would someone want to find a cell phone number? Finding means searching obviously and I can think of a few reasons why this […]
The Ultimate Movie DVD Tool Collection lists all the applications that are necessary to rip, create and burn movie DVDs. This article is for you if you want to backup existing movie […]
Software Programs that combine an existing background wallpaper with additional information or files seem to be the latest trend. Desktop Takeover is one of the latest variants. It introduces a feature that […]
Estimating the value of a website is no easy task for a script because it has to take many factors into consideration, and cannot access the most important factors directly usually which […]
For Part 3 I’m going to do the unthinkable… review a commercial application! So apologies for that, but I think this is worthy of a mention, even if you do have to […]
Open Source and free software programs that can replace specialized commercial software are constantly gaining popularity. They are often the better solution to commercial software. A good example is AVStoDVD which can […]
The following article explains how to add pictures to MySpace. The process itself is not overly complicated and everyone should be able to follow the steps. Please leave a comment if you […]
Some web developers like to squeeze small HTML forms on websites which are uncomfortable to use for the visitors of the site due to the size they are presented in. Imagine a […]
GeoSetter is a Digital Photo Software that aims to be a software for photographers and people interested in photos, and not one for picture collectors. It is basically a photo software for […]
Yesterday I began this series of posts which I hope will be a very comprehensive review of every music player alternative. I started off with Windows Media Player 11 and iTunes. However […]
The Back to Basics series looks at common tasks and problems that Windows users might encounter on a daily basis and explains solutions and ways to do certain "things" on the system. […]
When I want to view a particular video online, I usually try YouTube since that's where I'm most likely to find what I'm looking for. However, there are times when the video […]
Since my previous favorite software to mount images on my computer Daemon Tools Lite has been banned in my country, I had to check a few application to find another one that […]
Folder Guide is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices (XP or older officially supported), to access folders quickly. One thing that most users would like to see in the next Microsoft […]
Links are an essential part of the Internet. It is easy enough to place links in articles and on websites but linked resources may change, may be redirected or deleted outright. Webmasters […]
Searching is probably the one activity that every Internet user does on a daily basis. It does not really matter if it is a student doing research for an essay, a cook […]
Softperfect Network Scanner is a portable IP, NetBios and SNMP scanner that runs under all Microsoft operating systems starting with Windows XP all the way up to Windows 10, and all server […]
It has just been a week ago that I reviewed Microsoft Office Integrator, a tool that made it possible to create a new Office installation disk containing all the official Office Service […]
You may remember that the news of the first Microsoft Photosynth prototype created a craze around the Internet. That was about a year ago. Microsoft has finally released a client version of […]
Removing traces of just one website that you have been visiting in the past is quite some task. It requires knowledge of the storage locations of the data in Firefox. An easier […]
Website Caching is a technique to reduce the server load by sending visitors of the website static pages instead of dynamic ones whenever that is feasible. A normal request would query the […]
Microsoft Desktops is a free program by Sysinternals that adds virtual desktop capabilities to PCs running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Mark Russinovich and his Sysinternals applications have an excellent reputation among […]
The Internet is full of optimization tips for reducing the boot time and making the computer boot faster. Many of the tips described have virtually no effect or even ill-effects. The Boot […]
I was hoping all you gHacks readers could help me out with some feedback on one particular topic; Music jukeboxes. I have written up my thoughts, but I would genuinely like to […]
I just came across an amusing news excerpt about the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA, which is a part of Homeland Security. For those of you who don't know, Homeland Security […]
HTTP Watch is a HTTP monitoring plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer that can give you detailed information about a website or application that is loaded in the browser. The main reasons for […]
The following guide explains how you can convert a video_ts folder to a single video file that can be played on the computer or burned to CD. Ghacks reader Joshua asked me […]
I reviewed software programs or Windows Explorer extensions that display hard drive space usage before (for example Folder Size or JDiskReport Hard Drive Analyser, or my current favorite WizTree). FoSiX is another […]
I use Digg (on occasion), StumbleUpon and sometimes Google News. The New York Times and Techmeme satisfy the rest of my needs. I didn’t really think I could be interested in yet […]
Laptop users love batteries that last longer. At least those laptop users who use their laptop on the road; those desktop replacement laptops are usually to big and heavy to be carried […]
Google is testing new ideas and implementations before they go public for everyone. The testing grounds for Google Search are called Google Experimental, a publicly accessible area where everyone can test out […]
Anime is popular, mangas are popular, and hentai is, well popular too. That integral part of Japanese culture has long made its way into the West and kids are crazy after manga […]
Microsoft Powerpoint is one of the most popular tools for creating presentations. The only flaw, if you would call it that, is its linear approach. Each slide has an exact position in […]
I always used to shy away from companies that provided customers with tools to completely remove their products from a computer system. Two notorious companies that offer these tools are Symantec / […]
Nokia doesn’t have one wizz-bang distribution store like Apple has with iTunes, and locating applications for the Symbian OS is actually quite a pain. Apparently Symbian is a total bitch to develop […]
If you run Microsoft Outlook 2007 on Exchange Server and have the guts to test a prototype application from Office Labs, then Email Prioritizer may be a tool that has just been […]
No, I'm not referring to something called French Fries that has been renamed to Freedom Fries to punish the French for not siding with the US in the country's war against terror. […]
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