SmartUp Gestures is a popular mouse gestures and drag&drop extensions for the Google Chrome web browser that is now also available for Firefox. Firefox supports a handful of drag&drop operations by default, but to make use of mouse gestures and advanced operations, add-ons are required. Our first review of a mouse gestures add-on for Firefox […]
Wallpaper Studio 10 is a wallpaper app for Android, Windows 10 and Xbox One that syncs wallpapers between devices, and more. While I hear some of you sigh already because of "yet another wallpaper software" getting a review here on Ghacks, others may not be that quick to dismiss the application. Computer users have several […]
Pinboard, a site you may have never heard of, has acquired the social bookmarking site Delicious in an all-money deal for $35000 US Dollars. Delicious, or del.icio.us, was a popular social bookmarking site back in the days when sites like Digg made up the forefront of social news sites on the Internet. Anyone could join […]
The developers of the free media player software Kodi announced that the upcoming Kodi 18 will ship as a 64-bit version for Windows. Kodi, which originated as a project to bring a better media player to Microsoft's first Xbox console, is a popular cross-platform media player thanks to its customization options and support for multimedia […]
Mozilla added a much requested feature to Firefox's Container Tabs experiment recently that enables you to always open sites in a specific container. Container Tabs is an upcoming feature of the Firefox web browser that is available as a Test Pilot experiment, and in Firefox Nightly. Mozilla launched the Container Tabs experiment a couple of […]
Capture2Text is a free portable program for Windows that provides you with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality on the Windows desktop. Put simply: it enables you to mark anything on the desktop to retrieve the text part of it, and get it copied to the Windows Clipboard. The application works similarly to free alternatives such […]
Windows may install drivers for select devices, say the graphics card, under certain circumstances. This happens by default for instance when the device is setup, but may also happen when Microsoft pushes driver updates through Windows Updates. We published a tutorial -- How to disable driver updates from Windows Update -- previously that highlights three […]
You have a lot of options when it comes to watching videos on your devices. Most users seem to use YouTube more or less exclusively for all their family friendly video needs, but sites like Vimeo or Dailymotion are popular as well. Search on YouTube, with YouTube being a Google property, should be one of […]
XMeters is a program for Microsoft Windows devices that displays the resource use of the computer on the Windows taskbar. You have plenty of options when it comes to monitoring the resource use of a Windows PC. From using built-in Windows tools like the Task Manager or Resource Monitor, to third-party solutions like GKrellM, My […]
Google revealed yesterday that the company's Chrome web browser will start blocking some ads on the Internet from 2018 on. Many sites reported that Google will integrate a native ad-blocker in the Google Chrome web browser, but that is only partially true. While we don't have any version of Chrome yet that supports the new […]
Native Lazy Tabs is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that speeds up the loading of the web browser by using lazy loading. You may have noticed that Chrome's startup performance lacks severely if Google Chrome is configured to load the previous browsing session on start. The core reason for that is the Chrome […]
Adobe Scan is a new application for Android by Adobe that turns the device's camera into a scanner with text recognition (OCR) support. Basically, what it enables you to do is scan anything with text, recipes, notes, documents, business cards, newspaper articles, use OCR to identify the text, and save it as an Adobe PDF […]
The Complete Python Programming Bundle includes seven Python programming courses that is aimed at total beginners but also interesting to programmers who want to add another programming language to their resume, or Python coders who want to dive deeper into Python. The following courses are included in the bundle: Python Programming for Beginners -- Take […]
Bing Visual Search is a new feature of Bing's Image Search tool that allows you to select objects in images to run searches for them. The new feature, which is live already on Bing, provides you with options to run searches for objects or people that are displayed in images that are returned by Bing's […]
Microsoft announced a moment ago that it has released a preview version of the "next generation of Skype" which changes the software dramatically. Released initially only for Android, but promised to land for iOS, Windows and Mac OS X later on, the new Skype Preview app is all about creating, playing, sharing, and "doing more" […]
Dipiscan is a portable network scanner for Microsoft Windows devices to run scans on an IP range to detect network devices. Plenty of tools for network administrators and administration exist that help you manage devices connected to a local area network. Most operating systems ship with built-in options to ping, trace, display TCP connections, or […]