http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2009-12-10 22:11:54 - gHacks technology news : Lately I have had to use a number of flow charts for articles and presentations Flow charts are very handy tools to help explain processes, algorithms, and more A flow chart could be created with a standard graphics or drawing tool GIMP, Inkscape, or OpenOffice come to mind But by using such a tool you are http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170710.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170710.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-10 22:11:54 - gHacks technology news - About a week ago Facebook s own Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter to the community announcing some long awaited privacy changes to the popular social networking website What most users would not have expected at that time was how controversial these new privacy settings would be What Mark announced was better privacy for Facebook users http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170709.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170709.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-10 17:16:34 - gHacks technology news - The Mozilla development team that is responsible for the functionality of the website that is offering downloads for Firefox, Thunderbird and other Mozilla projects has changed several key features of the pages that contain the add-ons for the software programs over the last couple of months Some major changes included filtering experimental add-ons from the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170621.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170621.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-10 17:16:34 - gHacks technology news - Have you ever had problems finding the information that you were looking for on a website after performing a Google Search Most users either read all of the information until their find the relevant part, use the page or browser search to search for the term they are looking for or leave the website out http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170620.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170620.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-10 17:16:34 - gHacks technology news - Windows Media Player is a build in media player for the Windows operating system It has been improved by Microsoft in their latest operating system Windows 7 and is used by millions of users It can happen that problems occur that cannot be fixed that easily by the user as the media player is tightly http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170619.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170619.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-10 12:47:57 - gHacks technology news - Security software like a-squared Anti-Malware protect the computer system from threats and attacks not only on the Internet but also locally Unlike its name might suggest a-squared Anti-Malware makes use of two scan engines to protect, detect and remove trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, worms, bots, keyloggers, rootkits and dialers The software combines the a-squared Anti-Spyware http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170551.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170551.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-10 04:54:14 - gHacks technology news - Youtube has been one of the prime locations for music buffs around the world to view music videos and listen to music Many record companies and individual artists use Youtube to promote their products Users who have been searching for music that is distributed by the major record labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170448.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170448.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-09 22:23:33 - gHacks technology news - AnyBizSoft PDF Password Remover is a software program for the Windows operating system to remove PDF restrictions A free license for the commercial tool is currently offered on the developer s website so that users can download and use the program free of charge The program, unlike its name suggests, is not primarily being used to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170355.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170355.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-09 22:23:33 - gHacks technology news - Windows users have several options to launch programs on their computer system They can use the start menu or program shortcuts to do so Windows 7 has added the new pin to taskbar option to the list which can be used to quickly launch programs by clicking on their permanent taskbar icon Third party tools http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170354.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170354.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-09 22:23:33 - gHacks technology news - Adobe has issued an update for Adobe Flash yesterday that fixes a security vulnerability Most users who received notice about the update are updating Adobe Flash at the official Adobe website Firefox users who try to update Flash are in for a treat as a message to allow Adobe DLM will pop up when trying http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170353.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170353.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-09 22:23:33 - gHacks technology news - My last article illustrated how to manage your MySQL databases with a simple albeit outdated GUI MySQL Navigator see my article Manage your MySQL databases with an easy to use GUI Although that tool is outdated, it does still work for basic functionality But there are better tools for managing your MySQL databases One of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170352.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170352.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-09 17:37:07 - gHacks technology news - Security Tool is a so called rogue antivirus software that is distributed by various means including malicious software like trojans but also popups on the Internet which will display a fake message that the computer is infected and needs to be secured by downloading the rogue security program Security Tool will perform a series of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170224.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170224.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-09 17:37:07 - gHacks technology news - Only a few file compression programs have been constantly at the top of the crowd for the last ten years and WinRAR is without doubt one of them WinRAR has evolved in that time and is now able to not only handle rar files but also other compression formats like zip, 7z, gz, lzh, cab http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170223.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170223.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-09 13:10:02 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft has released a new batch of security updates on this month s Patch Tuesday which patch various security vulnerabilities in Microsoft software products The vulnerabilities are affecting several popular Microsoft products including various Windows operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office Three of the vulnerabilities have a maximum severity rating of critical while the other http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170111.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170111.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-09 13:10:02 - gHacks technology news - One of the things that kept extension development and especially distribution behind Firefox was a missing official website that would host the majority of extensions for the Google browser Google Chrome users who wanted to use extensions had to rely on third party websites to find some that they could use and install This has http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170110.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170110.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 23:43:33 - gHacks technology news - If you ve read my Linux content here on Ghacks enough, you have most likely noticed my preference for not using the MySQL command line That is not to say I don t ever use it, I just prefer tools to help make that aspect of database use easier My preference, until recent, has been PhpMyAdmin see http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169878.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169878.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 23:43:33 - gHacks technology news - After several beta versions and two release candidates the final version of the popular desktop email client Thunderbird 3 has finally been released to the public The new version of the email program is already available at the official Mozilla Messaging website Update checks within the email client should also be able to pick up http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169877.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169877.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 19:01:35 - gHacks technology news - Professional webmasters and system administrators have to make sure that their web servers, websites and services are monitored constantly to be able to react immediately if one of the systems or services fails But it is not always the professional users who needs those tools Basically any user who runs a website or server should http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169758.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169758.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 19:01:35 - gHacks technology news - Cloud based computing can have a serious impact on the time it takes to perform calculations We have seen join efforts in the past to use cloud computing in research But research is not the only area that benefits from the processing power of the cloud WPA Cracker is an online service that offers to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169757.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169757.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 14:07:32 - gHacks technology news - The amount of different video formats available make it sometimes necessary to convert them from one format into the other This is for instance relevant if a video is only available in a format that another device is not able to play back, say a downloaded video from Youtube that the user wants to view http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169666.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169666.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 14:07:32 - gHacks technology news - Firefox s bookmarks management capabilities are limited It is for instance not possible to check for duplicate bookmarks or dead links in the bookmarks manager or to comfortably change the bookmarks that are displayed in one of the web browser toolbars The Incredible Bookmarks add-on for Firefox changes this It is an all bases covered add-on that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169665.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169665.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 09:27:29 - gHacks technology news - Text based search is the most prominent search available on the Internet these days Most search engines, with the exception of a few specialized ones, require text input to be able to crawl their databases for hits on the topic Google Goggles is a new application for the Android operating system that allows the user http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169623.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169623.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 00:41:39 - gHacks technology news - Earlier this year a method to get access to date encrypted with the Open Source software True Crypt was published by security researchers which involved physical access to the protected computer system Back then many commenters and so called security experts mentioned that this was one of the main differences to Microsoft s Bitlocker encryption The last http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169450.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169450.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 00:41:39 - gHacks technology news - We knew that it would be coming eventually and the time apparently has come today At least for some users that is as Google stays true to its policy to roll out changes to their services over time Real-time search is an addition to the standard Google search results that users see when they perform http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169449.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169449.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 00:41:39 - gHacks technology news - The social scene has nearly reached critical mass You can not peak around the internet without seeing its tendrils reaching deep within the fabric of every site you visit This, of course, can cause problems with your work, school, or group environment While work is supposed to be done, your users employees are socializing on Facebook, Twitter, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169448.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169448.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-07 19:38:11 - gHacks technology news - DENIM is a web design tool to help web designers in the early stages of the design process The program provides the web designer with the means to sketch the website at various levels of refinement from a global site map view to individual pages and details on those pages The main interface of the software http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169348.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169348.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-07 19:38:11 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft s Outlook email client comes with an option to add photos to contacts that have been automatically or manually by the user This does make sense as it becomes easier to identify contacts in the email program It can however mean lots of work if the address book consists of more than a few dozens http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169347.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169347.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-07 14:56:49 - gHacks technology news - Malware and spyware are two of the biggest privacy and security threats that computer users face these days This ranges from relatively harmless tracking cookies that track a computer user s activity on the Internet to trojans and worms that steal, modify or delete data Anti-spyware software should therefor be an integral part of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169262.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169262.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-07 14:56:49 - gHacks technology news - The Firefox web browser will display the source code of any website by default in its own interface There are two configuration parameters that can be set so that another external source code viewer is used for viewing source codes setting view_sourceeditorexternal to true and view_sourceeditorpath to the path of the external editor on the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169261.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169261.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-07 02:40:19 - gHacks technology news - Today was a day that offered me a few good surprises On my editing schedule I have an assignment to cover virtual machines using KVM But since KVM only works with CPUs that contain the necessary instructions, I knew my only chance was on my main desktop and not any of my testing machines My http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169172.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169172.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-06 22:05:17 - gHacks technology news - Youtube is not really optimized for low bandwidth Internet connections nor for slow computer systems like netbooks Most computer users who access Youtube with that hardware notice that the experience is not as pleasant as it could be Youtube Feather is a new Youtube Labs project to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169149.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169149.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-06 16:54:10 - gHacks technology news - Taking care of your computer system should eb an integral part of a computer user s life We all know the feeling that a computer gets slower and less responsive over time which can be largely attributed to what a computer user does after the initial operating system installation Many install and uninstall programs, download files, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169100.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169100.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-06 12:34:03 - gHacks technology news - Most email clients and services display quotes around the original email message when the user replies to a received email These quotes indicate the original message and the whole conversation if emails are send back and forth multiple times Quotes are a good indicator of new and old content and can also be used to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169079.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169079.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-06 12:34:03 - gHacks technology news - If there is anything left in the online world that Google is not offering a service for yet chance is that they are working on exactly that service behind the scenes to release it eventually to the public Or, if they do not develop the service chance is they buy one of the first movers http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169078.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169078.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-06 02:33:01 - gHacks technology news - If you have done much work with Apache then most likely you have experienced a need for enabling the rewrite engine If you are unfamiliar with the rewrite engine, you can think of it as a means for your web server to literally rewrite urls so they are easier for users to remember So instead http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169049.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169049.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-05 21:49:05 - gHacks technology news - If you are a software collector like Roman you often have to deal with different program versions that use the same filename and extension This can be even more problematic if you want to store all those different versions in the same folder structure The only valid options so far were to either rename the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169031.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169031.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-05 21:49:05 - gHacks technology news - Starting today Google begins rolling out a new search personalization feature that has an impact on every search engine user that is using one of Google s search engines Previously personalized search results were only displayed to users who were logged into a Google Account The new system changes this behavior so that every user will http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169030.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169030.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-05 17:00:42 - gHacks technology news - Panda Internet Security 2010 is an all in one security program for the Windows operating system that protects the computer system in various ways from threats that today s PC users encounter everyday The PC program offers antivirus protection, a software firewall, identity protection, Internet browsing protection and backup capabilities Users of last year s version of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169003.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169003.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-05 17:00:42 - gHacks technology news - Have you ever asked yourself which information are accessible to quizzes and applications if you allow them to access your account before taking the quiz to find out if you really know everything about becoming a vampire or which superhero your cat resembles most Most Facebook users might think that those quizzes receive barely any http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169002.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169002.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-05 17:00:42 - gHacks technology news - The Windows operating system keeps records of storage devices that have been connected to the system in the past This is usually not a huge problem in most cases but some users might want to remove those storage device information from Windows so that no one who would analyse those devices would notice that they http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169001.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169001.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-04 21:10:12 - gHacks technology news - I remember, back in the day, when dealing with fonts in Linux was a real problem At best you were given the xfontsel application, which was an X11 way of displaying the fonts on your system only in the old-school X11 method think bitmappy Fortunately modern Linux distributions have much better fonts and font http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168722.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168722.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-04 21:10:12 - gHacks technology news - Google Picasa offers online photo hosting capabilities in the form of Picasa Web Albums Picasa users can upload photos from their local computer systems to the photo hosting servers that can then be shared with friends, family or even everyone by setting the viewing rights to public Even guests are then able to view and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168721.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168721.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-04 15:59:37 - gHacks technology news - Search results are different depending on the search engine the user utilizes The language plays another important role A search for Berlin Sightseeing and Berlin Sehenswürdigkeiten will yield two very different sets of results This is especially relevant if the search targets a region or country where the people are speaking a different language than http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168650.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168650.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-04 15:59:37 - gHacks technology news - There are basically two options when dealing with data loss The first is to access data backups to recover files while the second relies on file recovery software to recover the data What many users do not know is the fact that the operating system is not removing files completely from the hard drive if http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168649.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168649.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-04 15:59:37 - gHacks technology news - Google s entry as a DNS server provider read Google Public DNS has caused quite a stir on the Internet Some users have experienced privacy concerns while others have started testing and using the new DNS servers right away The tests so far were inconclusive leaving the individual user with no choice but to benchmark the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168648.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168648.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-04 15:59:37 - gHacks technology news - National Geographic are offering a wallpaper section on their website that is offering high quality wallpapers in categories like travel, nature, history or animals Those wallpapers can be freely downloaded in the three resolutions 800 600, 1024 768 and 1280 1024 They do not provide access to a higher resolution unfortunately but those three resolutions that are offered http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168647.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168647.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-03 21:53:40 - gHacks technology news - Email is not the best option to transfer large files One of the reasons why it is not are attachment limits that make the email servers reject emails that are larger than a specific size Many users help themselves by uploading the attachments to file hosts first to only include the link to the file http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168353.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168353.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-03 21:53:40 - gHacks technology news - The Mozilla website hosts several add-on directories for Mozilla software such as those for Firefox or Thunderbird If you look at these add-ons you will eventually notice that not all add-ons are compatible with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you are using The Mozilla website will even display if the add-on is compatible http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168352.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168352.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-03 21:53:40 - gHacks technology news - Android OS is about to make the migration from mobile phone to netbook PC most likely thanks to Asus If you ve not seen an Android-based phone, you most likely are not aware just what the possibilities are Although Android won t take the desktop or standard laptop landscape by storm, the netbook landscape COULD be totally http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168351.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168351.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-03 21:53:40 - gHacks technology news - The majority of Internet users has not probably come into contact with DNS, the Domain Name System, yet although they make use of it everyday on the Internet DNS is basically a system to convert domain names into IP addresses Domain names are easier to understand, memorize and write for humans while computers only use http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168350.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168350.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-03 16:29:37 - gHacks technology news - If you have ever worked in a network environment with strict rules that include storage and network transfer limits you might have come into a situation where you received an email from the system administrator about your disk space quota or over the limit network transfers Sending a 50 Megabyte PowerPoint presentation to all employers http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168252.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168252.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-03 16:29:37 - gHacks technology news - Google and Microsoft have recently published several posts that indicate that they are going to lay more emphasize on a website s performance with the likely possibility that performance will play a greater role in determining a website s search engine rankings But improving site performance has additional immediate benefits to the webmaster and site owner that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168251.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168251.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-03 16:29:37 - gHacks technology news - Family Safety is a program of Microsoft s Windows Live program suite that can be used to run content filters for specific user accounts It has been specifically designed for computers that several family members access and is especially useful if family member use individual accounts to log in and work with the computer system One http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168250.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168250.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-03 02:24:49 - gHacks technology news - The memory usage of modern web browsers has increased quite a bit over the years which can be attributed to the increased functionality but also to plugins and extensions that use computer memory as well when the web browser is running Google Chrome and Chromium make it easier for the user thanks to the build http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168043.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/168043.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 22:14:25 - gHacks technology news - Windows 7, unlike previous Microsoft operating systems, comes with extended capabilities to play video files out of the box The operating system comes with codecs to play Divx, Xvid, H264, AAC and several other popular formats Those videos can be played with any media player like the included Windows Media Player But there are still http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167927.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167927.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 22:14:25 - gHacks technology news - Several webmasters that I have talked to in the last year expressed their concern about Google s website traffic analyzer Google Analytics Once of the complaints was that the Analytics script would slow down the loading of the website Some even moved to other web tracking scripts to make their websites load faster Everton over at Connected http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167926.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167926.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 22:14:25 - gHacks technology news - Keeping yourself on task can be difficult with so many distractions available From the internet, to colleagues, to music, to just about anything it seems everything around you is doing its best to keep you from your work This becomes a real problem with deadlines looming over your head Can you manage to get that function rewritten http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167925.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167925.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 22:14:25 - gHacks technology news - Some computer users have been experiencing massive problems in the past when trying to connect their Bluetooth devices to the Windows operating system One common problem is driver related It happens that the driver of the Bluetooth adapter is not able to recognize the Bluetooth device that the user wants to connect to the computer http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167924.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167924.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 17:15:54 - gHacks technology news - Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that can be a good starting point for researching a specific topic What Wikipedia sorely needs is a better search engine Microsoft Powerset is a search engine technology that is powering Microsoft s own search engine Bing The Powerset website however is currently being used to demonstrate the Powerset technology http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167850.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167850.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 13:21:41 - gHacks technology news - The Mozilla Thunderbird developers have updated the upcoming version 3 of our favorite desktop email client Thunderbird 3 RC2 is the second release candidate of the email software It is, from looking at the changes, an unplanned release, as it only fixes four bugs when compared to the first release candidate One of the bugs http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167768.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167768.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 13:21:41 - gHacks technology news - MediaMonkey Gold is an all in one music manager for the Windows operating system The developers are offering a free version of Media Monkey which for itself is a very capable music manager MediaMonkey Gold adds features on top of that that make it one of the best Windows music managers Both versions of MediaMonkey http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167767.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167767.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 13:21:41 - gHacks technology news - In an open letter to the Facebook community its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced some upcoming changes to Facebook privacy settings The main reason for the privacy changes is connected to the incredible growth of the social networking website According to Marc the current privacy model of Facebook relies not networks which can be communities, companies http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167766.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167766.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 04:08:31 - gHacks technology news - Total Toolbars is a Firefox add-on that extends the options to customize the toolbars of the web browser One of the biggest additions is the ability to control and customize the icons that are displayed in the Firefox status bar, something that is not offered by default in the Firefox web browser Several Firefox add-ons utilize http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167659.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167659.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 00:10:33 - gHacks technology news - One of the features that I personally like in Microsoft s latest operating system Windows 7 is the ability to save themes to the local computer system so that they can be shared with family, friends and other Windows 7 users from around the world The theme creation is in fact that easy that it usually http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167525.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167525.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 00:10:33 - gHacks technology news - Snippage is a free application for Adobe Air which can turn website contents on the computer desktop Computer users can for instance use this to display the most recent posts of their favorite blogs, new items at their favorite shopping website or new profile pictures of a friend s Facebook account The Adobe Air application comes http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167524.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167524.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 00:10:33 - gHacks technology news - I have been working with the Acetone ISO manager and have been in awe at how much this tool can do The creators of Acetone call it a CD DVD image manager, but from my perspective it is much more than that Acetone is more like an emulator for different types of ISOs that can allow http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167523.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167523.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-01 18:48:54 - gHacks technology news - The developers of the Windows system monitor What s Running have recently released beta 3 of their upcoming third version of the software program What s Running is a system monitor that is to an extend comparable with popular tools like Process Explorer The system monitor on the other hand does not only reveal information about running http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167406.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167406.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-01 18:48:54 - gHacks technology news - Some Windows 7 users have reported a problem with the operating system that they were experiencing after installing the latest Microsoft security update on November 25 although there are some incidents where this problem seems to have been reported earlier than that What happens is that the operating system will display a black desktop after http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167405.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167405.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-01 14:04:15 - gHacks technology news - Winzip 14 is a file compression software for the Windows operating system Veteran computer users may know Winzip from back in the days as it was one of the first software programs that came with an intuitive graphical user interface Winzip has come a long way since then which is for instance reflected by the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167316.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167316.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-01 14:04:15 - gHacks technology news - Google s Android platform which was once backed only by HTC has come a long way since then Many cell phone manufacturers are releasing Android based cell phones at the moment including Samsung, Motorola and Acer with its Acer Liquid A1 Google created an Android Developer Challenge last year to give an incentive to software developers http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167315.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167315.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-01 00:48:00 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft has released the final version of their security software Microsoft Security Essentials on the same day that they have released their latest operating system Windows 7 Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antivirus software for the Windows operating system that can be downloaded and installed on PCs that pass a genuine advantage check Neowin http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166972.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166972.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-01 00:48:00 - gHacks technology news - Today a loyal reader sent me a message saying he enjoyed the Alternative Linux web browsers article and was hoping I could apply the same idea to PDF viewers The truth of the matter is that nearly every PDF viewer in Linux is an alternative Yes we Linux users do get to enjoy Acrobat Reader to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166971.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166971.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-30 20:48:32 - gHacks technology news - Mangas are very popular these days both in the real world but also on the Internet There are lots of places where Manga fans can read Mangas online Websites like One Manga or Manga Fox are popular locations to read the latest Mangas online Some users on the other hand prefer to download Mangas to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166866.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166866.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-30 16:30:19 - gHacks technology news - Not every scanning software offers the means to post-process the scanned documents Even those that do sometimes do not make it very comfortable for the user to process large quantities of scanned papers That s where the Open Source scanning software Scan Tailor might step in Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166768.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166768.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-30 16:30:19 - gHacks technology news - Many modern media players like Winamp, Windows Media Player or iTunes display cover art and other information about the music that is currently playing in their interfaces The same is true for cell phones and hardware mp3 players that usually also come with that option There are however a few problems related to cover art compatibility http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166767.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166767.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-30 12:40:10 - gHacks technology news - Let us say that you are in a situation where you would like to change some default programs temporarily in Windows You might want to do this to test out a new program without having to use the right-click context menu or the program s file browser to open files with it or you might be http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166712.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166712.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-30 12:40:10 - gHacks technology news - The Mozilla website hosts among other programs and files the web browser Firefox and the email client Thunderbird The very same website is also a directory for Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons which can be browsed and downloaded from the website Add-ons can be sorted in various ways including by popularity, date, name or http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166711.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166711.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-30 03:45:03 - gHacks technology news - You know Firefox like the back of your hand You ve heard tale of Chrome and you know KDE has tried to pawn Konqueror off as their default browser In the distance you hear Opera calling your name and IE4Lin tries to woo you to the dark side Browsers, the lot of them You can t go http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166174.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166174.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-29 23:12:03 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft s Windows Media Player does not support global hotkeys by default It comes with a full set of hotkeys that work when the window of the media player is active but these shortcuts stop working once the player s window is minimized or in the background of the computer desktop Some keyboard drivers enable media key http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166154.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166154.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-29 23:12:03 - gHacks technology news - If you look around you will notice that most download sites offer ZoneAlarm 80298 on their websites when in fact version 91007002 of Zonealarm is the newest version The Zonealarm website itself links to a download over at downloadcom that is offering version 8 of the Zonealarm firewall Zonealarm 91 on the other hand has http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166153.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166153.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-29 18:06:19 - gHacks technology news - If you have ever asked yourself how Twitter could be earning revenue from their highly popular messaging service then the latest developments at Twitter Japan might have an answer for you The development, which is already making the rounds on various news sites such as Techcrunch, Connected Internet or Telegraphcouk, is apparently limited to Japan http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166113.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166113.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-29 13:38:36 - gHacks technology news - Q What is a brasero A A Spanish oven that is placed under a table in order to heat those sitting at the table Correct, but not in terms of Linux A 20 A GTK front end for cdrtools, growisofs, and optionally libburn Correct If you have used a modern Linux system then you know how easy the task of burning http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166092.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166092.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-29 13:38:36 - gHacks technology news - Some Internet users are reluctant to use Google s web browser Google Chrome due to privacy concerns These concerns are not just based on thin air but on the fact that data is transmitted between the Google browser and Google servers Part of what is send is also being used by other web browsers like error http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166091.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166091.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-29 13:38:36 - gHacks technology news - Google Directions is a service by the Google Maps team that can be used to get driving, transit or walking directions The web interface of the Google service consists of a web form on the left and the map on the right All that needs to be done to get directions is to enter the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166090.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166090.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-28 19:17:53 - gHacks technology news - Here is an old Windows Explorer tip that I execute on every operating system that I install for myself If you want to copy or move files in Windows Explorer you usually do the following You select all the files and folders that you want to move or copy first You then need to open http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166015.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166015.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-28 19:17:53 - gHacks technology news - MocoSpace is a so called mobile social networking website What this means is that it is primarily designed for mobile access and not computer desktop access Another interesting aspect of MocoSpace is the fact that it is open for anyone regardless of their cell phone brand and carrier The service provided is similar to that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166014.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166014.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-28 19:17:53 - gHacks technology news - The home button in the Firefox web browser and actually in every web browser opens the default homepage of the web browser when it is clicked Most users do not need that functionality because of better alternatives that are provided by the browsers It is for example possible to add the homepage to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166013.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166013.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-28 14:58:14 - gHacks technology news - If you are like me you sometimes open lots of websites in tabs at once only to close them down one after the other after a short inspection of the website s contents The Firefox web browser offers two different options to close tabs The first is by clicking with the mouse on the close icon http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165972.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165972.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-28 14:58:14 - gHacks technology news - If you buy a website or order a new domain you sometimes want to point it to another web hoster or your own virtual or dedicated server Most webmasters do this by changing the DNS servers to point to the new server or by pointing the existing DNS servers to a IP The phase that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165971.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165971.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-28 01:16:23 - gHacks technology news - If you are a student, teacher, writer, or anyone who has a need for a bibligraphy then you need to do yourself a favor and make use of a bibliographic manager A bibliographic manager will organize, query, share, insert, and import bibliographic databases One tool for this is Bibus Bibus is an open source bibliographic database that can http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165897.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165897.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-28 01:16:23 - gHacks technology news - ScenegrabberNET is a free software program for the Microsoft Windows operating that can create single or sequence screenshots of movies that are loaded into the program These screenshots are often used to provide users with an overview of the movie s plot and quality before they start downloading those movies but can also be used locally http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165896.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165896.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-27 20:32:59 - gHacks technology news - I m proud to announce that we will run another Christmas giveaway this year which will be even bigger than the last one Not only because of the additional licenses and new software that we were able to get for you but also because of the participation of a partner site of Ghacks in the giveaway Here http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165844.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165844.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-27 20:32:59 - gHacks technology news - Valve is currently running a games sale on their Steam platform with games up to 75pourcents off their usual price The games that are offered for a discount change regularly with some bargains being offered the whole time Current deals include a THQ and Lucasarts Complete Pack as well as discounts for Dragon Age Origins, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165843.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165843.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-27 15:45:38 - gHacks technology news - We reviewed an earlier version of the file hosting upload manager File Image Uploader back in May and came to the conclusion that it was a file uploader s dream come true There was not much to criticize with 150 file hosting services supported, portability, parallel uploads and premium account support The developer on the other http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165784.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165784.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-27 15:45:38 - gHacks technology news - Mozilla Thunderbird 3 is currently available as a release candidate This suggests that the final version of the desktop email client will be released rather sooner than later One of the biggest changes between Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 3 is the way new email accounts are created Email users needed to setup the email account http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165783.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165783.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-27 15:45:38 - gHacks technology news - Our last review of Driver Sweeper dates back to March where we reviewed version 155 of the system software read Device Driver Cleanup that can be used to uninstall drivers completely from the operating system The developer has been busy in the past months releasing several new versions of the system driver uninstaller Driver Sweeper http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165782.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165782.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 21:49:48 - gHacks technology news - Windows 7 Ultimate is the last Windows 7 edition that we would like to review in our little series This is the only edition of Windows 7 that contains all features of the operating system Some users might wonder about Windows 7 Enterprise and how it compares to Windows 7 Ultimate The answer is simply http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165577.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165577.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 21:49:48 - gHacks technology news - The Mozilla developers have released a total of three beta versions of the upcoming web browser Firefox 36 in November so far The latest version Firefox 36 Beta 4 was just released and is now available for download at the official Mozilla website and through the check for updates option in the Firefox web browser http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165576.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165576.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 16:57:57 - gHacks technology news - Jamendo is a music community where artists share their music with the rest of the community Users can download and play the songs without having to pay money to do so The service has an index of more than 27000 albums to chose from and the social networking elements like tagging and reviewing make it http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165505.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165505.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 16:57:57 - gHacks technology news - Mipony is a file hosting download manager just like our favorite tool for the job JDownloader One could say it is a less complicated but also less feature rich file host downloader that does not require Java to be installed on the computer system it is running Mipony supports downloads from a total of 20 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165504.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165504.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 12:22:32 - gHacks technology news - Alexander over at 4Sysops has performed benchmark comparison tests of the encryption software programs Bitlocker and True Crypt on netbooks Bitlocker is the encryption software that ships with Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Vista Ultimate while True Crypt is a freely available Open Source alternative Both have features that the other software does not offer http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165461.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165461.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 03:48:56 - gHacks technology news - If you ve ever had to work with a database in Linux you most likely are aware of three or four tools that can handle the task MySQL, PostgreSQL, PhpMyAdmin, and OpenOffice Base These are all outstanding applications, but the first two are complex command-line only tools, the third requires a web server, and the last http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165377.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165377.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 03:48:56 - gHacks technology news - AM-Deadlink is a popular Windows desktop tool to verify bookmarks in various web browsers Recently the first beta of version 4 of the bookmark checker was released by its developers Most notable changes in the new version include support for Google s web browser Google Chrome, full unicode support as well as favicon support for Opera http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165376.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165376.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 03:48:56 - gHacks technology news - If there s a good piece of technology doing its rounds around the world, you can rest assured that small, unknown Chinese companies are likely to try their hands at it It happened with the iPod, the iPhone and now it is time it happened to Android No I am not talking about some freak phone http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165375.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165375.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-26 03:48:56 - gHacks technology news - And that is probably without any subsidy Huawei has apparently confirmed that such phone exists and is coming soon Whether this is the elusive U8230 is arguable but there is a strong possibility of that being the case Looks like Huawei is pretty serious about getting their piece of the Android pie It was not http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165374.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165374.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-25 23:26:51 - gHacks technology news - Neo Downloader Lite is an image download software for the Windows operating system The software program works with all web browsers unlike the Firefox add-on Image Host Grabber which we reviewed earlier today Using Neo Downloader is a very simple process The program will display an always on top icon on the desktop that can http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165316.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165316.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-25 23:26:51 - gHacks technology news - We mentioned a few days ago that Google was planning to release a new search interface There were only a few screenshots available at that time and it was not sure when the general public was able to test and work with the new interface The search interface has still not been released but the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165315.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165315.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-25 23:26:51 - gHacks technology news - The Opera development team has just released version Opera 1010 with full support for the Opera Unite feature which makes it possible to use web server features in the Opera web browser A glimpse of things to come is now available in the form of Opera 1020 alpha which has just been released by the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165314.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165314.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-25 18:10:38 - gHacks technology news - Imagehosts like Imagefap, Fapomatic or Photobucket are popular places to host photos and images on Many blogs, forums and other websites make use of these image hosts to avoid huge bandwidth and server costs as the majority of traffic is shouldered by these services Users on the other hand do not like image hosts that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165209.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165209.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-25 18:10:38 - gHacks technology news - You might have read in our announcement post about the latest Firefox 36 beta that the Mozilla developer s have changed the add-on compatibility parameter in the Firefox web browser This article will therefor describe three different ways to force add-on compatibility in the upcoming Firefox 36 browser It has to be noted that forcing compatibility http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165208.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165208.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-25 13:26:46 - gHacks technology news - Windows 7 Professional is the second Windows 7 edition that we take a closer look at after Windows 7 Home Premium yesterday This edition is actually the equivalent to Windows Vista Business but Microsoft decided to rename it in this operating system Some say they did so to make it easier for Windows XP Pro http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165132.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165132.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-25 04:19:20 - gHacks technology news - The first release candidate of Thunderbird 3 has just been released by the Mozilla developers after four beta releases This marks a new milestone in the development of the desktop email client The changes in this release are unfortunately not made clear in the release notes as they are being used to list the new http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165041.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165041.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-25 04:19:20 - gHacks technology news - This is the continuation of the last post that rounds up the latest on the popular smartphones of the moment Of course, their smartness is highly relative like whether your last phone had a color display or not and whether the rock that was over you was volcanic in origin There s a lot happening http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165040.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/165040.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 23:52:21 - gHacks technology news - Do you have a massive MP3 collection that contains files with problems Don t you wish you had a program that could search through that collection, find problems with those files, and fix the problems Fortunately for all of your MP3 horders, there are programs for just that task One of those programs, for the Linux http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164883.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164883.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 23:52:21 - gHacks technology news - The MP3 VCR is a free Open Source Internet radio recording software that s more than just a Streamripper alternative The software supports Shoutcast and other mp3 streams which can be copied and pasted or dragged and dropped into the interface The software itself comes with a preset of 40 radio stations which can be loaded http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164882.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164882.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 23:52:21 - gHacks technology news - With so much going on in the mobile phone industry, I have decided to do a bit of a comprehensive round up This is an essential update of all the intriguing new phones that you have had your eyes on Like the X6, the N900, the HD2, etc This is a strictly non-Apple iPhone update, mainly http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164881.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164881.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 18:09:46 - gHacks technology news - SPlayer, yes you read SPlayer not SMPlayer, is a new contender for the Windows media playback throne Depending on your media player of choice you are either stuck with installing codecs to get certain video formats to work or enjoy a media player that comes with binary codecs for video formats so that the user http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164585.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164585.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 18:09:46 - gHacks technology news - A screen capture software aids the user in capturing parts or the entire computer screen A lot of users actually need to do this on a regular basis from webmasters to journalists or students Microsoft has recently begun to ship their operating system with a so called snipping tool which can be used to capture http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164584.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164584.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 13:36:34 - gHacks technology news - If you are like me you use IMDB to look up movies that you read or heard about The process to look up these movies was a bit tedious if you originated from a different website, say a shopping site, forum or website that listed one or multiple movie titles To read the review on http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164509.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164509.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 13:36:34 - gHacks technology news - Windows 7 Home Premium is one of three Windows 7 editions that Microsoft has designed for the mid to high end market segment the other two are Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate Home Premium is the first Windows 7 edition that comes with all basic features included Windows 7 Home Basic and Windows http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164508.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164508.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 09:01:27 - gHacks technology news - Lately it has been a veritable onslaught of distribution releases Ubuntu 910, Fedora 12, Mandriva article coming soon , Debian 5 article coming soon , and many more With all of these releases it s been a real treat to kick the tires and see just how the various distributions put their spin on Linux Another distribution http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164469.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164469.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 00:24:06 - gHacks technology news - Firefox users have a great number of add-ons at their disposal if they want to download videos from video portals Some of these add-ons are very specialized and only compatible with one video website while others support dozens if not hundreds of different video sites The comparison in this article will concentrate on the top http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164301.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164301.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-24 00:24:06 - gHacks technology news - File hosting services such as Rapidshare, Megaupload or Depositfiles are immensely popular on the Internet They offer a comfortable solution of sharing files with other users over the Internet without having to cope with email attachment size limits which usually make large sized file trades very uncomfortable Some users want to make sure that their http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164300.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164300.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-23 19:15:18 - gHacks technology news - If you ask Windows users how they switch between applications then a majority will likely state they they use the Windows taskbar to do so But there are others who prefer a keyboard shortcut like Alt-Tab to quickly bring another running program or window to the front The free software Switcher offers another possibility The http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164172.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164172.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-23 15:05:15 - gHacks technology news - The Opera desktop developers have released the final version of Opera 1010 after releasing several beta builds in the past weeks The final build is exactly the build that was released as a beta on Saturday, users who have installed that build are still encouraged to download and install Opera 1010 from the Opera website http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164084.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164084.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-23 15:05:15 - gHacks technology news - Okay Folks, here we go Apple has announced it Black Friday sales I mean that have announced that they are going to have a special shopping event on friday It is basically a teaser and reveals nothing about what to expect They just tell you to come back on friday and find out Yes, I http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164083.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164083.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-23 15:05:15 - gHacks technology news - Have you ever asked yourself how you did end up with the email account that you are currently using Chance is that you have at least one account at one of the three most popular web based email service providers Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Hotmail This question might have become insignificant in recent years http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164082.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164082.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-23 15:05:15 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft has changed the theme management in their Windows 7 operating system There is still a lock in place that is keeping users from installing themes that have not been signed by Microsoft but the overall theme manageability has improved It is for instance now possible to save and load basic themes which opens up http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164081.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164081.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-23 06:14:34 - gHacks technology news - Even though the Linux operating system is very stable and rarely needs a reboot, there are times when an update such as a kernel update will make this a requirement At least that used to be the case That is correct With the help of a newly developed technology dubbed Ksplice even a kernel update http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164007.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/164007.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-23 01:47:44 - gHacks technology news - Have you ever asked yourself to which software program a specific system tray icon belongs While it is usually easy to tell by left- or right-clicking on the system tray icon it sometimes can be more difficulty Inexperienced users might prefer an easier solution to identifying system tray applications The system tray manager System Tray http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163981.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163981.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-22 21:28:49 - gHacks technology news - One of the security enhancements that Microsoft has added to Windows Vista and Windows 7 is the enforcement to only accept digitally signed drivers in 64-bit editions of those operating systems The operating system would refuse to install and run a driver without digital signature There are several points of view on the purpose of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163956.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163956.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-22 16:34:23 - gHacks technology news - If you are one of those Firefox users who likes to have dozens of tabs open in the Firefox tabbar then you might have sometimes lost track of where specific websites where located in the tabbar Options were to simply click through the tabs one by one until the right tab was found, to use http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163935.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163935.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-22 12:23:18 - gHacks technology news - Google has added a new module to Google Analytics called Intelligence The currently in beta module displays custom and automatic alerts that are created from website traffic operations It is not sure yet if all Google Analytics users have access to this new module of the website traffic analysis service yet or if it has http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163924.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163924.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-22 12:23:18 - gHacks technology news - We ran a post in the beginning of this month read Avira Antivir Update Hangs that mentioned a growing problem that users of Avira Antivir were experiencing The problem these users were experiencing was a permanent update failure during the virus definition update of the antivirus software Some users were able to fix these difficulties by http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163923.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163923.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-22 03:28:28 - gHacks technology news - For most lovers of music on the go, the default seems to be the combination of iTunes and iP where is either hone or od This is great for Apple and Windows users But where do Linux users get their new music Oh sure you can purchase the CD, rip it, and copy it http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163879.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163879.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-21 22:53:45 - gHacks technology news - Google Translate is one of the most popular automatic translation services on the Internet It is not only available at the official Google Translate website but also as a mashup in various other online applications and even lots of desktop software programs Google has recently updated the interface of the translate service which is now http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163845.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163845.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-21 22:53:45 - gHacks technology news - Samsung put out on display two phones that have not been announced yet And as one can expect, they got covered on the Internet These phones flag off a whole new line of Samsung phones called the Diva The first phone is a full touchscreen phone that has a 3 resistive touch display with a WQVGA http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163844.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163844.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-21 17:59:45 - gHacks technology news - Okay, so we have more rumors about the Motorola Motus We have specs, features, a new name and also a very shaky picture I mean it looks like it the camera was attached to the hull of a small fishing boat on the Bering sea or something Nonetheless, now that it looks so close to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163824.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163824.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-21 13:46:58 - gHacks technology news - Auslogics Disk Defrag is a hard disk defragmentation software for the Windows operating system Recently version 3 of the software program has been released Reason enough for us to take a look at the improvements in this new version At its core stands the option to defragment all connected hard drives of the computer system http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163801.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163801.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-21 01:22:32 - gHacks technology news - The Google phone is all over the Internet, thanks to a fresh wave of new leaks and speculations It looks like the Google phone is very real and it is being developed by Google as you read this This news, brought to us by the good folks at TechCrunch, has created quite a sensation everywhere http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163652.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163652.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 20:43:39 - gHacks technology news - Seems that the Youtube developers are finally starting to implement new features at the popular video hosting portal After the announcement of 1080p video support which began rolling out in the last 24 hours There does not seem to be an option just yet to search for those 1080p videos on Youtube Youtube videos that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163518.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163518.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 20:43:39 - gHacks technology news - A recent post over at Search Engine Land suggests that Google will be rolling out a new search interface or more precisely search result page design to selected users later today The effort seems to have originated in the analysis of the current search results layout which is everything but coherent and has http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163517.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163517.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 20:43:39 - gHacks technology news - AllMyApps offers a similar functionality as Ninite which we have reviewed last month Both applications allow a computer user to install multiple programs without further user interaction But that s where the similarities end Ninite creates a custom installer based on the selection of applications that the user makes on the homepage AllMyApps on the other http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163516.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163516.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 20:43:39 - gHacks technology news - The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released and done so fully open sourced It s not an operating system you can and should be putting on a stand alone machine Actually what has been released are VirtualBox and VMware images that can be booted in their respective virtual machines Martin http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163515.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163515.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 15:48:25 - gHacks technology news - Users looking for torrents usually go to a website like Mininova or The Piratebay that index torrents An alternative to this is a desktop torrents search engine like Torrent Fetcher is available for the Microsoft Windows operating system Torrent Fetcher comes with a comfortable interface to perform the search for Bittorrent files from the local http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163414.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163414.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 15:48:25 - gHacks technology news - VideoToMKV is a comfortable software program to convert various video formats into the Matroska container format mkv The program utilizes the ffmpeg library for the conversions New videos can be easily added to the application by drag and drop or a file browser The videos that have been added are then displayed in the main http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163413.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163413.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 11:30:48 - gHacks technology news - Now that the source code of Chrome OS is in the open the project has entered the second stage of the development phase I suggest to visit the announcement about Chrome OS that was posted yesterday and take a look at the video posted if you have not followed the news about Google s operating system http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163338.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163338.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 03:18:54 - gHacks technology news - Remember Kurara That phone from Sony Ericsson That got leaked right after the XPERIA X10 came out from behind the veil Well, we had it pegged down as an ordinary phone that is the stripped down, cheaper version of the Aino megaphone Turns out that that is not the case at all It is actually http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163217.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163217.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 03:18:54 - gHacks technology news - I m fairly confident that you have, at one time or another, run across an md5checksum file as you have perused the internet Whether it was a download file or even an application upgrade, those md5 files are there for a reason But just what is the reason When someone puts a file up on a server http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163216.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163216.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 03:18:54 - gHacks technology news - Google today has released their Google Chrome OS or operating system as Open Source under the name Chromium Open Source Project You might have already read in the past month that Google is working on a operating system that makes use of the core of the Google Chrome web browser, Linux and then http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163215.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163215.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-20 03:18:54 - gHacks technology news - Well, after the HTC CEO said in a cryptic tone that they would never make an Android HD2 there was a general round of murmuring about what happens to the rumored HTC Dragon But there was also the other interpretation that he is simply saying that to deny it without denying it We were in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163214.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163214.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 23:12:23 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft has released two roadmaps at this years Professional Developer s Conference PDC 2009 which both suggest a Windows 8 release in 2012 This confirms earlier rumors that Microsoft s next desktop operating system after Windows 7 would be released in three year s time To be more precise, the roadmaps that Microsoft showcased at the conference show http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163136.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163136.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 23:12:23 - gHacks technology news - It was getting really boring around here without the bountiful goodness of exciting new Apple Tablet rumors And it would ve remained that way if DigiTimes hadn t come to the rescue Their propensity for rumors is seriously admirable even if they aren t always spot on Now we have a new schedule for the tablet, a new http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163135.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163135.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 23:12:23 - gHacks technology news - A new version of the image viewer FastStone Image Viewer has been released today by the developers Version 40 introduces several new and enhanced features including better Windows 7 compatibility, improved performance in network folders, display of GPS information with a link to Google Earth, favorite folders and several minor improvements and bug fixes The http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163134.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163134.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 18:35:33 - gHacks technology news - Internet users sometimes visit websites that make excessive use of colors and background images so that the actual contents of the website are hard to read There are a few options on how to turn those unreadable pages into readable ones including bookmarklets, Greasemonkey scripts, web proxies and add-ons One of the latest add-ons to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163042.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163042.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 18:35:33 - gHacks technology news - Most tech savvy computer users who visited a technology news website yesterday noticed that Microsoft has released a public beta version of their upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 software product The beta has been made available for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of several Windows operating systems What some do not know is that the beta release http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163041.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/163041.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 14:34:05 - gHacks technology news - Companies basically have three options if they want their software programs to be compatible with Firefox They can create a Firefox add-on, a plugin, or integrate the program in the components directory directly The last option caused lots of concern for the Mozilla developers who linked these method to instabilities and crashes in the web http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162965.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162965.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 14:34:05 - gHacks technology news - Most Internet users agree that Microsoft made good progress with Internet Explorer 8 compared to previous releases of the web browser Internet Explorer 8 introduced some interesting new features, increased the performance of the web browser by a lot compared to previous versions and introduced some new security concepts that made the web browsing experience http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162964.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162964.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 14:34:05 - gHacks technology news - Orkut introduced a new redesigned homepage at the end of October The new Orkut as its users like to call it is currently invite only meaning that only those Orkut users who received an invitation to join might do so Everyone else is left with the old Orkut page for now unless they can find http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162963.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162963.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 10:13:51 - gHacks technology news - Get in on the latest in the iPhone app store, the hottest little place to be on earth if you truly believe that for every problem there s an app just waiting to happen Okay, so may be I like the iPhone a bit too much Magellan Sails Over To The iPhone, Finds It Flat Magellan has finally http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162904.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162904.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-19 01:58:04 - gHacks technology news - According to several reports on websites like Computerworld a new phishing scam is currently in the wild that is trying to get the Facebook login data of Facebook users Pandalabs, who uncovered the phishing scam, did not release lots of details about the attack other than it mimicked the Facebook login page and displayed an http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162809.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162809.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 21:42:36 - gHacks technology news - The Mozilla Firefox developers have released a third beta version of Firefox 36 just a week after releasing the last beta version of the web browser This beta version was not listed in the Firefox roadmap and could come as a surprise to many Firefox users who expected that a first release candidate would be http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162693.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162693.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 21:42:36 - gHacks technology news - In the wake of Ubuntu s 910 release, many distributions were forgotten But one distribution, in particular, keeps getting better and better under the radar That distribution Fedora Just this week Fedora 12 was released, brining some serious improvements not only to the cutting edge distribution, but to Linux in general Upon installation you might not immediately http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162692.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162692.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 21:42:36 - gHacks technology news - Desktop icons, or icons in general, come in handy in several situations but mainly to replace existing icons on the computer desktop or in applications It is for instance relatively easy to replace an existing icon in the Windows operating system with another although it depends on the data type System icons can for example http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162691.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162691.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 21:42:36 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft Office 2010 Beta downloads have been active for a few days for MSDN and Technet subscribers Everyone else did not have a choice but to wait until Microsoft would enable public downloads of their latest Office software suite Downloads have finally been activated for the public and are now available on the official Microsoft http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162690.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162690.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 16:54:45 - gHacks technology news - We reviewed the Adobe Reader alternative Sumatra back in the beginning of 2008 and came to the conclusion back then that Sumatra was a lightweight and fast replacement that was ideal for viewing PDF documents Version 10 of Sumatra was released yesterday which actually was one of the two updates that the developer of the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162561.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162561.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 16:54:45 - gHacks technology news - Youtube users experience a wide variety of problems and difficulties on the popular video hosting portal Probably the most common for most users are playback problems while playing Youtube videos This can be that a youtube video is not loading at all or and this seems to be more common that it stops http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162560.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162560.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 16:54:45 - gHacks technology news - Google Image search is a very comprehensive search engine to find photos and all kinds of images that have been posted publicly on the Internet It does offer a few sorting and filtering options and can even find related images to one of the selected images on the results pages Google Image Swirl takes this http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162559.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162559.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 04:40:15 - gHacks technology news - Adobe today released two technology previews for Adobe Flash and Adobe Air Adobe Flash 101 Pre-Release and Adobe Air 20 Beta are now both available for download at Adobe Labs Both applications are available for all supported operating systems Windows, Mac and Linux although some of the new features introduced are limited to a specific http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162401.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162401.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-18 00:23:45 - gHacks technology news - As you have most likely seen on Ghacks, there are numerous ways to keep your Linux distributions up to date There are new systems available such as the Ubuntu Software Center see my article The new Ubuntu Software Center that make installing software a piece of cake But even with applications such as the USC http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162316.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/162316.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-17 19:43:49 - gHacks technology news - Destroy Flickr is the second Adobe Air application that provides Flickr users with capabilities to manager Flickr from the computer desktop It was one of the recommended applications in the comments of the Zflick Flickr photo viewer review Destroy Flickr can only be used by Flickr users to manage their own uploaded photos This limits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161740.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161740.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-17 16:04:24 - gHacks technology news - The beta of Microsoft s upcoming Office suite Microsoft Office 2010 has been finished and already been made available to MSDN and Technet subscribers This leaves the general public who is also highly interested in this new beta with second row seats for now although it is rumored that public Office 2010 beta downloads will be http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161657.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161657.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-17 16:04:24 - gHacks technology news - Ports are what connects your computer to the outside world This can either be in a network or the Internet Open ports are required for many things like connecting to websites, downloading files, chatting or uploading photos to Flickr or Facebook Most ports are only open when they are needed by an application Problems can http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161656.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161656.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-17 12:07:18 - gHacks technology news - It happens sometimes that you are on a website waiting for something to happen, for example a download that should be available on that day or a registration form for a new web service And then there are times where you want to reload a page because the contents change all the time This can http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161582.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161582.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-17 04:00:18 - gHacks technology news - If you re like me and I know you are you have an endless assortment of passwords stored in your head And, again, if you re like me your age is defying your memory such that your brain isn t always so quick to recall that endless stream of random characters you have for passwords and you know http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161456.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161456.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 23:39:26 - gHacks technology news - Nokia has finally released its Maemo5 based smartphone the N900 Maemo is Nokia s next generation mobile OS It is a Linux-based platform that seeks to take on such juggernauts as the iPhone OS and the Android The N900 has intrigued the tech community and people in general with its bevy of features ever since it http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161368.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161368.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 23:39:26 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft s new and free security software Microsoft Security Essentials received some raving reviews since its first release as a beta version The final version of the antivirus software program was released alongside Microsoft s new operating system Windows 7 Microsoft Security Essentials is using Windows Update to update the virus definition files which can be problematic http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161367.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161367.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 18:58:24 - gHacks technology news - I switched servers from my old dedicated server hoster Hetzner to Wiredtree back in July this year There were several reasons for this step but especially the incredible offer that I was able to get, the managed support and the need for a faster server due to recent traffic increases The deal got me an http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161246.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161246.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 18:58:24 - gHacks technology news - Default programs in Windows are those programs that are started when opening or editing certain file types or protocols It can be an image viewer or editor for image formats or a web browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer for the http protocol I recently encountered a problem in Windows 7 that was driving me http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161245.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161245.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 18:58:24 - gHacks technology news - So I discovered that program Freeware Updater which looked interesting enough to be a potential candidate for a review here at Ghacks I downloaded it and scanned it at Virustotal It passed that check and I began the installation of the program with the usual double-click on the program executable The software program did display http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161244.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161244.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 14:45:14 - gHacks technology news - I have been using the desktop email client Mozilla Thunderbird for many years and have witnessed its rise to become one of the most powerful email software programs I switched to version 3 since the first beta hit the download servers and have not looked back since Version 3 of Thunderbird adds many interesting new http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161168.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161168.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 14:45:14 - gHacks technology news - Readyboost is a technology in Windows that was introduced in Windows Vista and improved for Windows 7 by Microsoft The technology basically allows the computer user to select a flash drive for memory caching The effect is noticeable on computer systems with 1 Gigabytes or less of computer memory installed The thinking behind this is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161167.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161167.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 02:36:59 - gHacks technology news - Here on Ghacks I have mentioned a few tools that allow you to create various types of Linux CDs Most of these tools allow you to create Live CDs that are either images of your current working distribution or tools to create a Live CD with special packages But none of these tools, so far, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161034.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161034.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-15 22:21:53 - gHacks technology news - Microsoft Outlook is a desktop email client that is part of the Microsoft Office software suite The email client does not come with a lot of options to export data like emails, notes, appointments or contacts into other formats or applications That s where the Microsoft Outlook Data Export Add-In comes into play The free add-in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161014.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161014.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-15 17:32:11 - gHacks technology news - It is not really clear why Microsoft never improved the default behavior of the Windows Clipboard The biggest flaw in the eyes of most users is the inability to store more than one entry in the clipboard So called clipboard managers are designed by third party developers to provide this and additional functionality PasteCopynet is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160999.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160999.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-15 13:36:10 - gHacks technology news - The iTunes store is offering a good selection of podcasts that iTunes users can subscribe to Apple uses its own format to serve the podcasts which is problematic for two groups of users Those who do not want to use iTunes and those who cannot use iTunes The former group likely uses another software program http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160989.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160989.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-15 05:34:46 - gHacks technology news - KDE is not a desktop that should be overlooked Not only did it completely redefine itself upon the launch of 4x, it has added features that have made it unique in the land of desktops But because KDE completely re-invented itself at version 4 it s almost as if you have to consider this a completely http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160968.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160968.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-14 20:47:25 - gHacks technology news - Have you ever googled yourself Chance is you found at least a few websites and resources about yourself even more so if you have deliberately added information about yourself on websites across the Internet Most users probably do so when they signup for social networking websites such as Facebook or MySpace but information are also http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160923.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160923.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-14 16:16:27 - gHacks technology news - The Apple slate tablet makes a come back this week with a newly public Apple patent making its rounds around the Internet Looks like Apple might include a stylus with their tablet after all Apple s new, ginormous store at Broadway made headlines again after the some invite-only press people were given a preview Apple Pen-Based Input Patent http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160908.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160908.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-14 16:16:27 - gHacks technology news - Connectify was the first downloadable application that used the virtual Wifi capabilities of Microsoft s Windows 7 operating system to turn the computer system into a Wifi hotspot The developers offered the program as a beta version that could be freely downloaded Their intention on the other hand was to sell the software program once they http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160907.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160907.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-14 12:01:46 - gHacks technology news - The Yahoo Messenger team has released the long awaited Yahoo Messenger 10 final The popular instant messenger was previously only available in beta versions with many of them leaked and not officially released by Yahoo The new Yahoo Messenger 10 can be downloaded directly from the Yahoo Messenger website where it is available for Microsoft http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160890.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160890.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-14 08:07:15 - gHacks technology news - As I continue with my line of iPhone updates, one thing is becoming pretty clear Apple is going to have a massive year next year They have always been good at generating vas amounts of publicity by not saying anything at all regarding their future plans and now we have rumors of a Verizon http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160871.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160871.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-13 23:53:33 - gHacks technology news - The Opera developers have released the first and likely final release candidate for the upcoming Opera 1010 web browser The download of the web browser is available for all supported operating system Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux and can be used to either upgrade an existing version of Opera or to install http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160734.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160734.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-13 18:52:32 - gHacks technology news - Oxelon Media Converter makes audio and video converting in the Windows operating system a breeze The software program integrates itself into the Windows Explorer context menu providing users with options to start audio and video conversions right from the explorer window It does support the conventional option of adding multimedia files to the program s interface http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160642.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160642.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-13 18:52:32 - gHacks technology news - For the longest time I refused to see the value in Twitter Over the last six months I have changed my tune on that Now I use Twitter primarily as a PR tool for my articles And since my renewed belief in micro-blogging, I have found plenty of tools with which to enact with Twitter One http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160641.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160641.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-13 14:48:21 - gHacks technology news - Internet users who want to save single webpages in their web browser can usually do so by going to the File menu of their browser and selecting Save As This will save the html file along with all the objects of the website in an extra folder on the local computer system Many users who http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160566.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160566.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-13 14:48:21 - gHacks technology news - Why is the Internet so damn slow That s probably a phrase that every Internet user in the world has said more than once Even users with fast broadband connections experience slow downs and slow loading websites every now and then as the speed to display a website in the user s web browser does not only http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160565.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160565.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-13 14:48:21 - gHacks technology news - Youtube and other video portals on the Internet have come a long way since the beginning of the online video boom What started with low resolutions has now grown over the year to keep pace with the high definition development in the TV, digital camcorder and media market Youtube announced yesterday in the official Youtube http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160564.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160564.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-13 02:02:06 - gHacks technology news - The Wordpress developers have just released a security update for their blogging platform Wordpress which raises the version of the software to 286 It is always recommended to update to a new version of Wordpress as soon as possible and especially so for a security release This release fixes two vulnerabilities that are only relevant http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160327.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160327.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-12 21:52:32 - gHacks technology news - Flickr is probably the most popular photo hosting website on the Internet in these days It is therefor no surprise that many users like to view and download photos that are hosted on Flickr and even less surprisingly that many application developers have created browser add-ons, standalone applications, userscripts and other kinds of applications to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160265.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/160265.shtml