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Start8 Update brings jump to Windows 8 desktop option
Stardock released the Start8 program back in March of 2012 to bring back the start menu to the Windows 8 desktop where Microsoft had removed it from. The removal has been criticized vocally by users of...
View ArticleGet your 9GAG fix at work with 9GAG Mini for Chrome
9GAG is one of those Internet projects that has totally slipped past my radar. The site is one of the most popular Internet sites right now, with an Alexa rank of 251 currently. If you have never been...
View ArticleMightyText, Text and read from computers using your Android phone
If you are one of those who gets itchy fingers whenever your phone leaves your hand in fear of missing a text, you may like the MightyText application for Google Android mobile devices. The application...
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MultiMonitorTool: Improve Multi-Monitor support in Windows
If you are working with a multi-monitor system you have probably noticed that Windows is not really providing you with the best of options when it comes to working with that setup. And while some of...
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VLC 2.0.3 is now available for all supported operating systems
The update to VLC 2.0.3 is a strange one. It has been released exclusively for Apple Macintosh systems yesterday introducing support for the latest version of the Mac OS X operating system Mountain...
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Windows Store: Paid Apps start at $1.49
With the Metro interface in Windows 8 comes Windows Store, a marketplace for free and commercial apps that users can download and install on their systems. The store is interesting for a number of...
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Clean-up Windows Explorer menu items with CCleaner
The more applications you install, the more likely the chance that your Windows Explorer menu fills up with context menu items. While some of these items may be handy to have, others may not add...
View ArticleSpeed up Google Chrome, Chromium or SRWare Iron with IronCleaner
There is not a lot that you can do when Google Chrome starts to slow down after you have used the web browser for a certain period of time. While you could try and delete the browser cache and make...
View ArticleDead Mouse for Chrome: open links with your keyboard
I often prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse for operations in the operating system. This begins with simply things such as copying and pasting, but also moving the cursor into the browser's...
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Delete Google Chrome browsing data on exit
Google Chrome offers its users several options when it comes to clearing browsing data. One of the quickest ways is to use the Ctlr-Shift-Del shortcut to bring up the clear browsing data menu where you...
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Transform Windows 8 into Mac OS X
Don't like the way how Windows 8 is shaping out to look like when it is released? Prefer the look and feel of Apple's Mac OS X operating system? Then you may be interested in the Mountion Lion Skin...
View ArticleImmersive Explorer, Metro-style app for the desktop
The Metro user interface that Windows 8 ships with is certainly controversial with the majority of users either hating or loving it. If you are part of the group that likes Metro, or at least thinks it...
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Opera Mobile use 47% up, impressive growth in emerging markets
Opera Software's ability to grow even in markets where it is facing multi-billion Dollar companies like Apple, Google or Microsoft has kept the company alive throughout all these years. It is like...
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Fix old Net Framework programs not installing or running under Windows 8
Both client and server Windows 8 operating systems ship with the brand new Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 which replaces version 4.0 of the framework on the system. Microsoft made the decision to not...
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Add Search the Internet to the Windows Start Menu
One of the things that I like about the search in Windows 8 is the option to load websites automatically from the interface. Just search for a site url, do not forget www. or http:// in front, and tap...
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Music-Plow for Chrome: find music while you are surfing on the Internet
So you read about Justin Bieber's new song somewhere online, or are currently browsing the Rolling Stone reviews section and found a song that could be exactly what you are liking. Since the song is...
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Sleepwalker: Windows shutdown just became more comfortable
Do you like to watch a movie or listen to music before you fall asleep at night? If you do, you have probably noticed that the PC is still on the next morning when you wake up. If you have been using a...
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iPhone running out of space? Use PhoneClean to free up disk space
Your iPhone is constantly low on disk space and you do not really know what to do about it? Does it feel like it is losing space even though you are not installing new apps or media on the phone? One...
View ArticleACDSee Free available for download. Free Windows image viewer
The image viewer ACDSee has been around for a long time. I think I came into contact with the program using Windows 95, but somehow lost track of the program and its development shortly thereafter when...
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Edit the Win-X menu in Windows 8 and 10
Several new features and changes are introduced with the Windows 8 operating system. You probably heard about the new start page and the missing start menu. Microsoft has added a menu to the desktop...
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Mozilla adds old Java plugins to blocklist
Mozilla maintains a blacklist for add-ons and plugins that are either a security risk for users of Mozilla products they are compatible with, or cause stability issues when they are installed in a...
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Mozilla Firefox Release Schedule
The Firefox Release Schedule overview offers information about past, present and future releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. With three different versions of the Firefox web browser available...
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DiskCheckup: get warnings before a hard disk drive fails
A failing hard disk drive can have severe consequences for the data that is stored on the drive. In the worst case, you end up with an unusable hard drive and data loss that even the best recovery...
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How to install Windows 8 without product key
If you have installed the final version of Windows 8 on a PC recently, you have noticed that you had to enter a valid product key at one time during setup to continue with it. That's different from...
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What happens when Windows 8 expires?
Microsoft has released three previews of its upcoming operating system Windows 8 to the public. The Windows 8 Developer Preview, Consumer Preview and Release Preview have been, and in many cases are,...
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Opera AutoStack Add-on: change Opera's tab stacking behavior
One of the coolest recent features of the Opera web browser is its tab stacking functionality. You can use it to stack tabs on top of each other to save space on the tab bar. To create a stack of tabs...
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Install Microsoft Visual C++ Runtimes in one go
Sometimes when yo try to install or run a program on your Windows system you may get an error message that a component it depends on is missing. This can for instance be the case if you do not have a...
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No Windows 8 Desktop Gadgets? Try these two tools to get them back!
One of the features missing in Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 8 is desktop gadget support. Gadgets are programs that make their functionality directly available on the desktop. They were...
View ArticleGreasemonkey 1.0 extension for Firefox released
Greasemonkey is one of the most popular extensions for the Firefox web browser. The add-on adds support for JavaScript code, userscripts, that can be loaded to manipulate one, some or all web pages...
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Opera 12.02 final released, download now
Norwegian company Opera Software has released a new version of its desktop web browser Opera to the public. The new version is an update to the stable version of the web browser brining the version of...
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Monitor all Windows Explorer file activites
We here at Ghacks Technology News have reviewed several applications in the past that allow you to monitor specific areas of the operating system. SpyMe Tools for instance lets you monitor the...
View ArticleFirefox to get Reader Mode in the next months
Mozilla implemented Reader Mode in the Android version of the Firefox web browser some time ago. Reader Mode at its core tries to improve the readability of content on a web page by removing all page...
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Facebook starts rolling out https for all users
Facebook back in 2011 introduced an option under Account Security that allowed you to enable https whenever possible on the site. The feature back then was an optional one, and users of the social...
View ArticleChangelog Droid: Android apps update information
Android apps that you have installed from Google's Play store update automatically, usually. It is a background process that you have no control over. While you find information about updates later in...
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Microsoft highlights official software download site on Bing now
When you search for a software download on most search engines the official site of the program may be listed as the first result there. Sometimes, that is not the case and this happens often for...
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Modify the Windows taskbar to show icons for each program instance individually
Microsoft changed the way the taskbar works in Windows 7. Among the many changes were options to pin programs and files to the taskbar to improve their accessibility on the system. Part of the change...
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A comparison of GPT and MBR partition structures
Have you ever wondered how a computer boots up? Regardless of hardware or operating system, all computers start up using either the traditional BIOS-MBR or the more recent UEFI-GPT method employed by...
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Fixing Bootmgr is missing error in Windows
Windows Boot Manager, abbreviated as BOOTMGR is a small piece of software that initiates the Windows boot sequence. Bootmgr is loaded from the volume boot record. It executes winload.exe (Windows boot...
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Windows 10 Safe Mode
Safe Mode is a diagnostic mode of the Windows operating system including on Windows 10. It is a troubleshooting tool intended to fix many problems that you encounter when you run the operating system...
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Fix Critical Process Died in Windows 10 Error
If you're here because a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) with the error Critical_Process_Died message popped up on your screen, interrupting your work and causing your computer to reboot, then you can let...
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