You have certainly a couple of options at hand if you want to protect the data on your phone from being accessed by third parties. The pin code to unlock it is […]
Back in the early days of computing, magazines were one of the only sources of information about new software, games, trends and hardware. While you had your friends who sometimes know about […]
Whenever you hop on to the Internet you are facing dangers. While it is relatively safe on popular sites such as Facebook or Google, it is possible that you are deceived even […]
YouTube has become a go-to location for listening to music -- you get the video as well, but many of us just leave that in the background and listen while we work […]
I certainly see the use in changing the play speed of certain videos or audio files. You can for instance speed up an interesting but long winded tech podcast this way, or […]
Free services that unblock country-restricted contents on the Internet such as Hulu, Pandora, the BBC or Netflix usually do not last that long before sites start to take notice and block them […]
Steampunk Tower is a special kind of tower defense game. You are tasked with the protection of a tower that is under constant attack by enemy forces. You have four different types […]
One of the things that I really like in regards to Google Chrome is the browser's task manager that reveals a variety of information about the browser's memory usage. Firefox's about:memory page […]
So, I have been using the Usenet for a very long time and I have seen services come and go rather regularly in that time. One service that has been there for […]
The Pwn2own security challenge is an annual competition in which hackers and security experts from all over the world try to beat the protection of software and mobile devices. Winners of the […]
YouTube has been experimenting with a new channel design for some time now. Up until now, only select channels were allowed to switch to the new design which introduces a couple of […]
So Google introduced these really big header images on Google+ the other day that take up much of the screen estate when you open a profile that switched to the larger header […]
In today's technology-laden world many of us have an increasing need to capture images of our computer screens and share them with others for either a demonstration or simply to get a […]
YouTube is without doubt one of the largest online repositories in regards to music and music videos that is available on today's Internet. While it is likely that you find nearly every […]
The more powerful phones get the more you can do with them while on the go. From browsing the Internet to using cool features such as GPS to listening to music or […]
Reports started to appear on the Internet about hacking incidents of accounts over at Yahoo and while it is not really clear what is going on, it seems fairly certain that some […]
The Office 2013 lineup is Microsoft's entry into the world of subscriptions thanks to Office 365 which is available for a yearly subscription fee instead of a one-time price. Subscriptions to have […]
We have seen attempts before to bring Windows 8 apps to the desktop of the operating system. RetroUI Pro can do that for instance but all implementations up until now did not […]
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 […]
Google seems to work constantly on its social networking site Google+. The company only recently started to redirect Picasa web albums to Google+ and while that is not a permanent redirection yet, […]
Google is currently working on an Opera Turbo like feature for Google Chrome for Android to speed up web browsing by redirecting data through a proxy that is compressing it before it […]
Google Chrome ships with a set of built-in developer tools that users of the browser can make use. While they aim at web developers to help them plan and create websites, and […]
We all know that Google Chrome supports some userscripts right out of the box without installation of a third party extension. Firefox users on the other hand need to install Greasemonkey or […]
If you are noticing choppy playback in VLC Media Player when playing high resolution video files, you may under certain circumstances benefit from gpu accelerated decoding in the media player to smooth […]
500px is a popular photo sharing web site and mobile app -- its not Instagram or Flickr, but it is loved by many professional photographers. That is a fact that actually got […]
Opera Software has released a first beta version of Opera running on webkit for Android to the Google Play store. The release acts as a preview version for Opera's upcoming browser that […]
It should not happen that extensions get modified in key aspects without existing users being made aware of those changes. We have already seen how companies take advantage of Mozilla's add-on repository […]
Maybe it is just my feeling but podcasts never seem to have really taken off beyond a small tech audience that enjoys this talkshow-like format very much. One of the things that […]
Google back in 2008 added a feature to its Gmail email service that displays the recent access history on the Gmail homepage after sign in. Here you'd be presented with a table […]
My Samsung Android phone is set to vibrate throughout most of the day regardless of whether I'm at home or on the way. I may be a bit old fashioned in this […]
As a webmaster and Internet user, I do not like the direction that Google Search is heading towards for some years now. I'm not even talking about all the redesigns as of […]
If you are running Google's browser Chrome and noticing freezes when you open web pages in it, you may have tried a lot to resolve the issue. Most users report that Chrome […]
There are not many reliable sources for operating system market share trends. Microsoft for instance does not reveal those information even though it could, and usage trend sites like W3schools or Net […]
NetworkInterfacesView is a new program by Nirsoft that displays a list of installed network adapters and interfaces that are installed on the system. The program displays all interfaces, regardless of whether they […]
The note-taking service Evernote has posted a security advisory on its website informing the public that the company's Operations & Security team has discovered - and blocked - suspicious activity on the […]
Mobile browsing has improved a lot in recent years, and while coverage in many areas of the world has been improved in that time, for instance with the introduction of LTE, bandwidth […]
HTML5 localStorage was designed to allow websites and services to store larger amounts of data on a computer system. It is supported by all modern web browsers and used frequently by sites […]
I can't really remember when I first came into contact with Bomberman, but I think it was on the Commodore Amiga when I started to play a game called Dynablast. The game […]
If you have been plagued by beeping sounds while on Facebook, you have probably asked yourself what is going on and how to turn those sounds off when you are on the […]
Many of us in the tech world use Chrome or Firefox most of the time and we tend to forget that the vast majority of people still use Internet Explorer, largely because […]
