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If you search on Google regularly, you may have noticed omitted entries on some search results pages. For those of you who have never encountered that, try searching for windows 7 torrent and scroll down to the end of the page. DMCA complaints are the major reason for removals of search results, and other forms, [...]
When you buy blank media, hard drives, printers, or USB drives in Germany, you not only pay for the device or item, but also an extra fee that goes right into the pocket of rights-holders, represented by a collecting society. Even if you do not plan on reproducing anything, for instance by using the storage [...]
Depending on what you search for on Google, you sometimes may find information at the bottom of the search page that inform you that results have been removed from the page in response to a complaint. This sometimes leads to a situation where you may find more removal request information at the bottom of the [...]
Computer users have many options when it comes to reading news. From the traditional way of visiting portal sites like Yahoo or newspaper websites like the New York Times site, to aggregators like Reddit or Hacker News, to forums or RSS. Google News is an aggregator that is collecting news articles from around the world [...]
I rarely use superlatives here on Ghacks, but this smooth scrolling extension for Firefox has fully convinced me that there is nothing better on the market right now. Yet Another Smooth Scrolling may look like your run-of-the-mill mouse smoothing extensions, but once you have installed it and started to scroll on a page where that [...]
Many webmasters, web developers and regular users thought that the rise of HTML5 would eliminate the web’s need for Adobe Flash and other proprietary technologies. Even though we have seen some sites make use of HTML5 technologies, Flash is still widely used, often as a fallback for users whose browsers do not support all the [...]
The basic search concept has not really evolved in the past decade or so. People visit a search engine like Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo, enter a search term there, and wait for the results listing to be displayed to them. This is usually displayed in a table-like vertical format, with every search engine throwing in [...]
The Firefox web browser comes in several flavors. When you look at what is on offer, you will notice that users can download and run beta, aurora and nightly versions of the browser next to the stable releases that the majority of Firefox users run. But even that is not all, as there are also [...]
When you look at the five major web browsers, that is Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari, you will notice many similarities, and less differences. Don’t get me wrong, there are differences and features unique to some browsers, like Opera’s Turbo feature, or different ways of handling things in the browser. While it [...]
When it comes to download files from file hosting sites without all the hassles involved doing that directly on the site’s website, JDownloader is the go-to program for many. Many things speak for the program; its support for more than 100 different file hosts and over 300 decryption plug-ins, support for premium accounts, that it [...]
Windows 8 is not the only product that Microsoft is currently working on. The company is also working on a refresh of their popular Visual Studio product lineup, and boy, there will be changes that will certainly irritate part of the user base that is currently working with the product. Microsoft notes that Visual Studio [...]
Back when Mozilla introduced the Tab Groups feature I often hit the assigned shortcut accidentally triggering it. This was annoying and back then there were virtually no options to get around it. Mozilla then later on changed the shortcut and everything was good. If you have a shortcut of your own that you hit by [...]
If you are living in the UK, or another country where access to the popular Bittorrent indexing site the Piratebay has been blocked, you may have wondered what this is all about. In the U.K. for instance, major ISPs have agreed to block access to the site. If you are a customer of one of [...]
When there is something wrong with my Windows 7 desktop PC, I tend to hammer on the F8 key during boot to get into the advanced boot options. Here I can then repair or recover from issues that I may experience at that time. With Window s8, that process will be completely different. The main [...]
As you may know, I like to run portable security programs from time to time on systems that I own or administrate as part of a system’s regular maintenance. For that, I also like to test new programs that come up, or have slipped passed me previously. System Security Guard is a free portable program [...]
When I’m working on a computer that is connected to a single monitor, I often like to display two windows side by side, especially when writing a new blog post. I usually display the WordPress admin interface where I write the post in one window, and the developer web page or another source in the [...]
If you work with Flash or HTML5 contents regularly, be it in form of video players, web games or applications, you may find that the lack of options to control the contents a disadvantage. One of the biggest complaints in this regard is the lack of options when it comes to changing the size of [...]
Computer users who want to store data in the cloud, or synchronize data between their own devices, have the choice between so many different cloud hosting services that it is becoming quite difficulty to keep an overview over all of them. If you prefer full control over your data, ownCloud may be an option, as [...]
If you work with many tabs in Firefox, you may have some websites that leech away the computer’s processing power even when they are running in the background. Some websites for instance update contents automatically even if they are running in a background tab, others may play Flash contents like advertisement. The Firefox add-on Suspend [...]
When you load a torrent with multiple files into the uTorrent Bittorrent client, you will notice that uTorrent by default will not prioritize any file in particular. While that may not be an issue most of the time, especially not if the torrent is well seeded. There are however situations where you may want to [...]
