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Opera 16 Stable is out now 27 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Norwegian company Opera Software has just released Opera 16 Stable, a new version of the browser that is now based on the Chromium engine. You may recall that the company made the switch to Chromium s...
How to go back to an old version of Firefox 27 Aug 2013 | 01:06 pm
My Firefox Nightly version that I have been running for some time now received an update two days ago that rendered it completely unusable. I got weird black bars on the screen that would move around ...
Hide Programs in Windows with the tap on a button 27 Aug 2013 | 03:23 am
If you work on your computer in environments where other people may get a glimpse of your screen, or may approach you for conversation, or to monitor you, or where you sometimes have to demonstrate so...
Https on regular Feedly accounts 26 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
We have talked about Feedly before here on Ghacks, and what we had to say about it was mostly positive. You can check out our previous coverage here, here or here. Feedly was launched as a free servi...
Temporary fix for Instagram’s photo viewer in Firefox 26 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
Earlier today I highlighted that you can fix the video playback on Vine if you are using the Firefox web browser. Playback is broken in the browser and until there is an official fix, it is necessary ...
Fix Vine videos not playing in the Firefox web browser 26 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
I have to admit that I have not really paid much attention to Vine and other time-restricted video recording apps. All have in common that they provide users with the opportunity to record video for a...
Social Media Feather: a super lightweight WordPress sharing plugin 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
I'm still working on the new Ghacks theme behind the scenes, and one of the things that I really wanted to tackle was to remove the old social media sharing plugin AddThis as it was making use of Java...
Adding WebM support to Microsoft Internet Explorer 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
When it comes to new web technologies, it is web browsers that need to support them before they can be accessed or used by Internet users. We currently have a situation where two audio-video formats f...
Startpage and Ixquick search engines improve user privacy further 25 Aug 2013 | 06:18 pm
Search engines like DuckDuckGo, Startpage or Ixquick have seen a surge in visitors ever since the PRISM story broke on the Internet. The search engine DuckDuckGo nearly tripled its daily requests and...
Calibre 1.0 ebook manager released 25 Aug 2013 | 01:14 pm
The ebook management software Calibre has just been updated to version 1.0. The version comes after nearly seven years of development, and introduces several new features to the free application. The...
