If you print out web pages regularly you may have noticed that it may not be the most economical thing to do, at least when it comes to printing out web pages that do not have a special print button attached to them to only print out the article or information, and not headers, sidebars [...]
Cloud System Booster is a free system optimizer, cleaner and repair program for Windows that combines features of programs like CCleaner with optimization and repair tools. When you start the program after installation you will notice that it offers one-click access to features right from the start screen. It is however recommended to check the [...]
When it comes to mp3 files, you sometimes may need a set of tools to edit, convert or even rip them in first place. While you can use specialized tools for that which provide you with some of the functionality that you may need, a set of tools that Mp3 Toolkit offers may come in [...]
I have been playing Diablo 3 since it came out, and while it is a good game, it is not a game that impressed me like the original two parts of the series did. Instead of spending all my spare time leveling up my characters and tinkering with stats and skills, I noticed that it [...]
A recent trend in mobile computing is to make devices as slim as possible. We have seen Intel create the Ultrabooks brand for that purpose, and even though it is being used rather loosely, laptops tend to be slimmer on average than years before. One could now think that this would impact the laptop’s battery [...]
Many websites and services make use of Google Analytics, a web statistics service that is tracking web users on websites where the script is installed. Besides the tracking, there is also the aspect of loading times that are affected by the script. Web users who do not want to be tracked, or want sites to [...]
Okay take this with some skepticism as there is no official confirmation about this yet, and the only source for the article is an unnamed one. According to web magazine Pocket-Lint, Facebook is considering buying the Norwegian company Opera Software, which developers the Opera web browser for various platforms. Opera Software, which had a very [...]
If you search on Google regularly, you may have noticed omitted entries on some search results pages. For those of you who have never encountered that, try searching for windows 7 torrent and scroll down to the end of the page. DMCA complaints are the major reason for removals of search results, and other forms, [...]
When you buy blank media, hard drives, printers, or USB drives in Germany, you not only pay for the devices or items, but also an extra fee that goes right into the pocket of rights-holders, represented by a collecting society. Even if you do not plan on reproduce anything, for instance by using the storage [...]
Sergey Brin, Turkish President Abdullah Gül & his wife in a self-driving car at the Googleplex http://twitter.com/google...
Depending on what you search for on Google, you sometimes may find information at the bottom of the search page that inform you that results have been removed from the page in response to a complaint. This sometimes leads to a situation where you may find more removal request information at the bottom of the [...]
Great to have Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey, stop by Google on his 1st official trip to the West Coast of America http://twitter.com/google...
Computer users have many options when it comes to reading news. From the traditional way of visiting portal sites like Yahoo or newspaper websites like the New York Times site, to aggregators like Reddit or Hacker News, to forums or RSS. Google News is an aggregator that is collecting news articles from around the world [...]
I rarely use superlatives here on Ghacks, but this smooth scrolling extension for Firefox has fully convinced me that there is nothing better on the market right now. Yet Another Smooth Scrolling may look like your run-of-the-mill mouse smoothing extensions, but once you have installed it and started to scroll on a page where that [...]
Many webmasters, web developers and regular users thought that the rise of HTML5 would eliminate the web’s need for Adobe Flash and other proprietary technologies. Even though we have seen some sites make use of HTML5 technologies, Flash is still widely used, often as a fallback for users whose browsers do not support all the [...]
The basic search concept has not really evolved in the past decade or so. People visit a search engine like Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo, enter a search term there, and wait for the results listing to be displayed to them. This is usually displayed in a table-like vertical format, with every search engine throwing in [...]
The Firefox web browser comes in several flavors. When you look at what is on offer, you will notice that users can download and run beta, aurora and nightly versions of the browser next to the stable releases that the majority of Firefox users run. But even that is not all, as there are also [...]
Today: Hewlett-Packard announces 27,000 layoffs even as company beats earnings expectations, Facebook stock has its most positive day yet, and Google beats Oracle in patent phase of Android trial.