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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.
Video creator

Grayjay: follow video creators on multiple platforms

Posted on January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Grayjay is a new application for Google Android devices to follow video creators on multiple platforms. Depending on how active you are when it comes to streaming media, you may know that many video creators publish content to different platforms. A basic example is a Twitch streamer who also publishes some footage on YouTube. Keeping…

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AI

Microsoft Edge for Android’s new Copilot Toolbar

Posted on January 21, 2024January 21, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Microsoft has renamed its browser for Android recently to Microsoft Edge: AI Browser. The browser is getting an infusion of Copilot and AI features. One of the latest is the Copilot Toolbar. Available in Microsoft Edge Canary only at the time of writing, it is designed to give users even quicker access to Copilot. Copilot…

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Computers

How to back up Windows user profiles

Posted on January 20, 2024January 20, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Each Windows user has a user profile that holds customizations and personal files. Users may install software, download files or change the look and feel of Windows. Backing up user profiles may not be something that most users are familiar with. There are full system backups after all, which include user profile data. User backups…

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YouTube

How to remove YouTube Shorts permanently

Posted on January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

YouTube Shorts is an integral part of YouTube and very similar to videos on TikTok. Not every YouTube user likes the short video format and some may find it outright annoying. There are several ways to remove the entire Shorts section and all Shorts videos from YouTube. Removing in this regard refers to hiding YouTube…

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Extract

How to properly extract Zip files on Windows 11

Posted on January 18, 2024January 18, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Zip archives are widely used on today’s Internet and on desktop computer systems. The Zip archive format is popular and used for distributing files, programs or saving space. Archives contain one or more files. A Zip archive needs to be extracted, which is called unzipping. Windows 11 supports the Zip archive format by default. It…

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Colors

How to customize colors in Windows 11

Posted on January 17, 2024January 17, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system supports a wide range of color settings. Users may customize the color for window borders and title bars, the Start button and the taskbar. Microsoft distinguishes between color modes, which refers to dark, light and custom modes, and individual color settings of each mode. This has not changed in the…

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Taking Microsoft’s Copilot app for Android for a test drive

Posted on January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Microsoft unveiled the Copilot app for Android and iOS this week officially. While it released the app earlier, it is now officially available according to Microsoft. How good is the app for Android and how does it compare to the web-based version? To find out, I decided to install Microsoft Copilot for Android on a…

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Google

Manage which Google Services may exchange your data (EU-only)

Posted on January 13, 2024January 13, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

If you live in a European Union region, you will soon benefit from another privacy improvement. Google just announced a new control for users within the EU that allows them to manage links between Google services. Links refers to data that services may exchange between each other. Google links many of its services by default,…

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Microsoft forgets one important aspect when adding AI to everything

Posted on January 10, 2024January 10, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Barely a week goes by without another AI announcement from Microsoft. It all began with the integration of ChatGPT into Bing Search. Called Bing Chat, it allows Bing users to communicate with a custom version of ChatGPT directly from the Bing website. Exactly a year later, AI has found its way into a wide range…

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Copilot key

There has to be more to the Windows Copilot key

Posted on January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Microsoft announced a dedicated Copilot key for Windows recently. Yusuf Mehdi himself announced the “year of AI” and the introduction of the Copilot key for Windows 11 PCs. Microsoft and several OEMs will ship upcoming devices with the key on the keyboard. Information about the key is scarce at the moment. While Microsoft did publish…

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