Ghacks
Technology blog
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| logo | Ghacks-logo.jpg |
| owner | Unknown |
| company_type | Subsidiary |
| website_type | blog |
| services | Reviews / Recommendations |
| foundation | October 2005 |
| founder | Martin Brinkmann |
| location_city | Essen |
| location_country | Germany |
| key_people | Martin Brinkmann, former Editor-in-chief |
| num_employees | 5 |
| url | www.ghacks.net |
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::callout[type=note] the blog by Martin Brinkmann ::
| logo = Ghacks-logo.jpg | owner = Unknown | company_type = Subsidiary | website_type = blog | services = Reviews / Recommendations | foundation = October 2005 | founder = Martin Brinkmann | location_city = Essen | location_country = Germany | key_people = Martin Brinkmann, former Editor-in-chief | num_employees = 5 | url = www.ghacks.net
Ghacks Technology News is a technology blog created by Martin Brinkmann in October 2005. Its primary focus is on web browser and Windows tips, software, guides and reviews.
Coverage
The editor-in-chief and founder is Martin Brinkmann. All authors that contribute articles for the site are listed in the footer area on the website.
An average of five posts are published each day of the week with topics ranging from Windows and Linux operating system news to web browser tips (focusing on Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, online services like Gmail and Outlook.com, and general tech news and tips.
Popular posts include login related troubleshooting guides like Gmail or Facebook.
Ghacks Technology News articles have been republished by sites such as Lifehacker, Gizmodo, DonationCoder.com, and other sites due to its coverage of cyber security, troubleshooting and FOSS.
History
Ghacks was created in 2005 as a development blog for a software called Google Hacks. Trademark issues made the founder of the site pick ghacks as the domain name. The software was soon thereafter discontinued and Ghacks turned from a development type blog to a software and online news oriented blog.
In April 5, 2008, Grand Effect blog advertising network, co-founded by Sarah Perez and David Peralty, included eXtra for Every Publisher, gHacks, ParisLemon, SheGeeks, Sarah in Tampa, and The Last Podcast!.
From 2008 to 2011, the site held an annual Christmas Giveaway, with commercial software given away to readers.
The website received more than 400,000 visitors per day as of January 2017, and as of June 2019 has an Alexa traffic rank of 9,537 worldwide and 4,269 in the United States.
In October 2019, Ghacks was acquired by Softonic.
In December 2025, Ghacks was acquired from Softonic by a third party. Neither Brinkmann nor co-writer Ashwin Karthik remained at the site following the ownership change.
Reception
Ghacks Technology News has received recommendations by DL.TV, Diggnation, and KNLS Radio's Eye on the Web with Mary Westheimer.
Technorati listed Ghacks as a top 100 blog in both the general technology and info technology category; in September 2013, it occupied position 21 in the Info technology category and 68 in the overall technology category on Technorati.
References
References
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- Brinkmann, Martin. (2009-05-04). "Gmail Login Troubleshooting".
- Brinkmann, Martin. (17 October 2009). "Facebook Login Page Help And Troubleshooting".
- (18 October 2011). "Instant Elevator Music Automatically Plays Whenever You Move Files Around". Lifehacker.
- (3 September 2018). "You've Been Moving Chrome Tabs Wrong This Whole Time". Gizmodo Australia.
- (19 April 2019). "Patch Tuesday Lowdown, April 2019 Edition".
- (8 August 2015). "Recover Lost Drive Space From Windows 10's Technical Preview". Lifehacker Australia.
- (9 August 2015). "Your Windows 10 Upgrade May Be Using More Space Than It Should". Gizmodo Australia.
- (2020). "Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020".
- (2018). "W3C in the Press – 2018". [[World Wide Web Consortium]].
- (3 October 2005). "Welcome to gHacks.net". Ghacks.net.
- "Christmas Giveaway".
- "Christmas Giveaway".
- "ghacks.net Traffic Statistics". Alexa Internet.
- (7 October 2019). "Ghacks has a new owner, and that is good for everyone". Ghacks.net.
- (9 May 2008). "Cool Websites". DL.TV.
- "Diggnation".
- "This month's shows". Eye on the Web with Mary Westheimer.
- "gHacks technology news". Technorati.
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