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Author: Martin Brinkmann

When I was young, I studied German, History and English at Essen University in Germany. I worked in computer support for several years at the time to help other computer users when they ran into issues. Writing started out as a passion project, as I wanted to help more users and not just the ones that I handled in support. This lead to the founding of Ghacks Technology News in 2005. First, as a side-project, but shortly thereafter as a full-time project as the site's popularity exploded. I sold Ghacks to Softonic some years ago, but stayed on as Editor. You can still read my articles on the site. I do publish on Betanews as well. In recent years, I started to write and publish technology books, including my latest book "Windows 11 From Beginner to Advanced", which is available on Amazon. I'm also a freelance writer for the German publisher Gamestar. Chipp.in is my newest project. I want to use it to talk about my book projects, sell my books directly, and write about technology, as this is what interests me.
Cassettes

The video downloader Cobalt just got a whole lot better

Posted on November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

While streaming seems to gain more popularity by the day, some users prefer to download content at times or always. This offers several benefits, such as: There are plenty of services available on the Internet that let you download videos to the local system. You may also use standalone programs, Internet Download Manager is my…

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Amazon Prime Video Recaps

Amazon uses AI to improve TV show recaps on Prime Video

Posted on November 5, 2024November 5, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

I dislike recaps. Not as much as precaps, which give you a summary of what you are about to see, but still. Whenever they come up, I immediately activate the skip button to get past them. Amazon is now experimenting with AI to improve recaps for viewers on Amazon Prime Video. The feature, which has…

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Windows Updates Viewer

Windows Update Viewer: little helper app for Windows admins

Posted on November 4, 2024November 4, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Windows Update Viewer is an open source application for Windows that serves a number of purposes all around updates in Windows. The application is free to use and available as a portable version and as an installer. It displays all installed updates on the Windows system when you run it. Note that it is a…

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Thunderbird Android

Thunderbird is now officially available for Android

Posted on November 2, 2024November 2, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

The open source email client Mozilla Thunderbird is now also available for Android. This marks a big milestone for the makers and enables users to use the client on desktop systems and on mobile systems powered by Android. With iOS support in the works, Thunderbird will be a true cross-platform email client that you can…

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Looking for Windows Wallpapers? Microsoft has a download site for them

Posted on October 31, 2024October 31, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Wallpapers are a great way to customize your Windows PCs or any other device. Most devices come with a default set of wallpapers, but these are usually fairly limited. On Windows, you get a few choices and may also download wallpapers from the Internet or the Microsoft Store. A third option is provided by Microsoft’s…

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Chrome

How to remove Google Lens from Chrome’s address bar

Posted on October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

If you still use Google Chrome, then you may have noticed that the browser displays a Google Lens entry in the address bar. It is still rolling out I guess, but more and more installations get this. With Google Lens integration, Chrome users may run searches for anything that they see on the page. So,…

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Firefox

Mozilla celebrates Firefox’s 20th birthday with a video that teases upcoming features.

Posted on October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Mozilla has published a video to celebrate the 20th birthday of its Firefox web browser. The video showcases some of the existing features of the web browser and also upcoming features. As far as new features are concerned, there is none that has not been mentioned before. Still, it is a good opportunity to see…

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PeaZip 10.0: new version of open source archive tool released

Posted on October 27, 2024October 27, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

When the makers of the archive tool Bandizip started to make changes that were disliked by part of the userbase, it was PeaZip among several other apps that users switched to. The open source archiving software is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The developers have released version 10.0 recently; reason enough to take another…

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Mullvad

Mullvad VPN adds protections against AI traffic analysis

Posted on October 26, 2024October 26, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

One of the best things you can do to protect your data and privacy while online is to use a good VPN. Not all VPNs offer equally good protections; some even collect and sell user data. Mullvad VPN is already offering some of the strongest privacy protections in the industry. This begins with options to…

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Opera One R2 interface

Opera One R2 launches with the promise that you can keep on using your classic extensions

Posted on October 24, 2024October 24, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Opera Software introduced several new features to development editions of its browsers in the past couple of months. I reviewed the new tab management and dynamic themes feature just recently. Today, Opera Software announced the launch of Opera One R2, the next stable version of its web browser. This release is feature-packed, and it includes…

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