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gHacks 8 hours ago:

Lunascape, A Triple-Engine Internet Browser -

When you look at the five major web browsers, that is Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari, you will notice many similarities, and less differences.

gHacks 11 hours ago:

OchDownloader, a JDownloader alternative -

When it comes to download files from file hosting sites without all the hassles involved doing that directly on the site’s website, JDownloader is the go-to program for many.

gHacks 15 hours ago:

Visual Studio 11: Only For Windows 7 or higher -

Windows 8 is not the only product that Microsoft is currently working on. The company is also working on a refresh of their popular Visual Studio product lineup, and boy, there will be changes that will certainly irritate part of the user base that is currently working with the product.

gHacks 16 hours ago:

Change Firefox shortcuts with the Customizable Shortcuts add-on -

Back when Mozilla introduced the Tab Groups feature I often hit the assigned shortcut accidentally triggering it.

gHacks 21 hours ago:

The Piratebay: Cat and Mouse game continues -

If you are living in the UK, or another country where access to the popular Bittorrent indexing site the Piratebay has been blocked, you may have wondered what this is all about.

gHacks less than a day ago:

Windows 8′s Boot Experience Will Be Different -

When there is something wrong with my Windows 7 desktop PC, I tend to hammer on the F8 key during boot to get into the advanced boot options.

gHacks less than a day ago:

Quick check your system for problems with System Security Guard -

As you may know, I like to run portable security programs from time to time on systems that I own or administrate as part of a system’s regular maintenance.

gHacks less than a day ago:

Easiest way to show windows side by side in Windows -

When I’m working on a computer that is connected to a single monitor, I often like to display two windows side by side, especially when writing a new blog post.

gHacks less than a day ago:

MediaPlus for Chrome gives you better Flash, HMTL5 Controls -

If you work with Flash or HTML5 contents regularly, be it in form of video players, web games or applications, you may find that the lack of options to control the contents a disadvantage.

gHacks less than a day ago:

OwnCloud 4 Released, Now With Encryption, Versioning, More -

Computer users who want to store data in the cloud, or synchronize data between their own devices, have the choice between so many different cloud hosting services that it is becoming quite difficulty to keep an overview over all of them.

gHacks less than a day ago:

Make Firefox More Responsive With Suspend Background Tabs -

If you work with many tabs in Firefox, you may have some websites that leech away the computer’s processing power even when they are running in the background.

gHacks 2 days ago:

How To Prioritize File Downloads In uTorrent -

When you load a torrent with multiple files into the uTorrent Bittorrent client, you will notice that uTorrent by default will not prioritize any file in particular.

gHacks 2 days ago:

Microsoft set to improve Windows Multi-Monitor support -

Microsoft re-published the multi-monitor article on the Building Windows 8 blog that was published earlier this week and then pulled again.

gHacks 2 days ago:

Keep Your PC Clean With Wise Disk Cleaner -

Some computer users say that there is not really a need to run disk cleaners like the popular CCleaner or the lesser known FixBee regularly on a system thanks to Terabyte-large hard drives.

gHacks 3 days ago:

Wikipedia down? Try these alternatives -

Wikipedia in recent years has become the go-to address for Internet users when it comes to looking up information on the Internet.

gHacks 3 days ago:

Create Self-Destructing Notes With Burn Note -

When I think about self-destructing notes or messages, I tend to think of spy movies like James Bond or Impossible Mission, and not necessarily about something that average people like you and I come in contact with.

gHacks 3 days ago:

Web Browser System Requirements Overview -

When you are planning to install a new web browser on your system, or to upgrade one of the browsers to a newer version, you need to make sure that your system meets the requirements for that.

gHacks 3 days ago:

Box Launches Private Sync Client Beta for Personal Users -

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.

gHacks 3 days ago:

Add DuckDuckGo’s Zero-Click Information To Google Search -

One of the great features of the search engine DuckDuckGo are its zero-click information boxes that are automatically displayed at the top of the search results for select queries.

gHacks 4 days ago:

Microsoft So.cl (Social) Silently Launched -

Oh no, not another networking site, please, for god’s sake. That was my first thought when I read about Microsoft So.

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