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If you have been to Ghacks lately you may have noticed that something is amiss. In short: Ashwin and I are no longer authors at the site. The longer picture: Softonic decided to sell Ghacks to another company. We, the authors, have not been approached by the new owner and do not really know who…
Microsoft has accumulated a wealth of downloads over the last four decades or so. From tools and drivers to Windows versions and standalone applications. While some may not be useful anymore at this day and age, other than for a nostalgic look back at how things were back in the good old days, others are…
Customers all over the world are used to frequent price increases of subscriptions by now. Many online services that require a subscription increase prices regularly, often once per year or every second year. That is bad enough, especially if the service does not get any better because of it. While services argue that inflation and…
If you use a Fire TV device by Amazon, then you know that you may install third-party Android apps on the device that are not provided via Amazon’s official App Store. This is an excellent option to install apps that you may want to use, like streaming apps or YouTube frontend clients that get rid…
The free AI ride is as good as over. Free meaning no ads in this case. The writing was on the wall: AI processing, infrastructure and upkeep are expensive and companies can only burn through a specific amount of money before investors demand a return on their investment or they run into payment issues. ChatGPT…
What used to be a once or twice a year occurrence has turned into the opposite. It seems that digital games sales happen every week nowadays, which has turned them from something exciting into something bland and interchangeable. It is the same with sweets for Christmas. They used to be special, but you get them…
How many videos do you get when you open the YouTube homepage on your device? When I do open YouTube in any browser I get zero, because I have turned off the YouTube history and Google decided it would push users into signing in to an account by disabling the generic feed of videos that…
How is the last supported Windows operating system doing after Microsoft ended support for its predecessor Windows 10 a month ago? Not so good, at least according to Dell CEO Jeffrey Clarke. Clarke revealed several information during the company’s latest earnings call. One of them being that Dell believes that there are 500 million Windows…
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps out there. One reason why more and more businesses try to establish channels on WhatsApp. Most to reach customers and sell them something. Amazon is no exception to that. Maybe you have noticed already that you are getting ads from Amazon in WhatsApp. Even if not,…
You may have heard that Microsoft is working on a new restore feature for Windows 11 called Point-in-time Restore. The backup feature in a sentence: It allows Windows admins to restore the exact previous state of a Windows PC. The main focus is to offer fast restores to a previous system state to allow the…