Google Chrome 5 comes with automatic page translation
The latest version of Google Chrome, build 5.0.317.2, brings a new feature to improve the browsing experience when visiting foreign websites. It includes an automatic page translation tool which detects the page language and, if it differs from your browser language, offers to translate it to your language using Google Translate. When Chrome offers you to translate a site, a blue... Continue Reading
New version of Opera catching up with Chrome’s performance?
A newly released pre-alpha version of Opera promises to radically improve the browser's performance and speed of displaying and loading websites. The official developer website even claims that "[Opera 10.50] is fast, more than 7x faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10". Since Google Chrome has been the fastest browser on the market so far, followed by Apple's Safari browser, we... Continue Reading
Battlefield Bad Company 2 exclusive preview
Yesterday evening, the Closed Beta of Battlefield Bad Company 2 started. I managed to secure a beta key and get the game installer and immediately started testing. First of all, a few screenshots and performance information, but more information and a video will follow! There is a torrent download for Battlefield Bad Company 2 that's working quite well in contrast... Continue Reading
Hack and Reset any Windows 7 user password
If you forgot your your Windows account password, it got hacked or some virus changed it so you're not able to access your computer any more, you can use the following tutorial to restore and reset the password. This method will also work for Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and Windows Vista! WARNING: Please do not use this method for illegal... Continue Reading
Update BIOS using Q-Flash for Gigabyte mainboards
If your computer crashes or is somehow malfunctioning, a BIOS update may help. I tried to run Microsoft Virtual PC on my Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P mainboard with AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor, but it refused to start due to lack of Hardware Virtualization support although I enabled it in the BIOS setup. Updating my BIOS to the latest version with Q-Flash using an USB... Continue Reading
Medieval II: Total War multiplayer fix
When trying to play Medieval II: Total War multiplayer in LAN mode, you may encounter the problem that the players can't see each other in the lobby and can't find the hosted game despite of correct versions, network configuration and firewall settings. There is a quite easy fix for this problem, just follow the steps below: Browse to the directory containing... Continue Reading
AdThwart extension blocks advertisement in Google Chrome
The new version 4.0 of Google Chrome (currently Beta) enables the use of plugins and extensions in your browser. Extensions are a long requested feature for Chrome and one of the only reasons why many users still favored Firefox over Chrome. In the Google Chrome Extension Directory you will find many interesting extension, but the one I waited for a long... Continue Reading
Try the new Google Search Interface
Currently, Google is testing a new search interface for their websearch somehow reminding of Bing. This new interface is supposed to make searching easier by putting all the useful filters and kinds of search in a bar on the left side while displaying the search results on the right side. Although this interface hasn't been released for the public yet, you... Continue Reading