Regular visitors might have spotted the new Webcasts menu entry in the header area of Ghacks already. I signed an agreement with a company that is providing free webcasts to interested visitors of Ghacks. Webcasts are presentations that are held in either Windows Media Player or Real Player about specific technology related topics. The webcasts [...]
Desktop Atomic Clock Software
“Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late”. That quote is attributed to William Shakespeare who lived in an age without computers. Today time is essential for many programs and functions of the computer. This starts with applications who might throw an error message if the time is not precise on a computer [...]
Windows Live Wave 3, One Day On…
The public beta release of Windows Live Wave 3 was released yesterday. I’ve had a day to play around with it and am really enjoying the new features and capabilities of the software suite. The New UI I’m a little undecided on the new look for the Windows Live suite. On one hand I don’t [...]
Joost Now Offering Browser TV
Joost who have been offering a software client for Macintosh and Windows to watch (mostly) prerecorded TV shows have launched a website today that is offering everyone using Internet Explorer or Firefox the opportunity to watch the TV shows that have been previously only available to the software client users. The service currently requires a [...]
Evaluate Document Information Leak Level
SolFileFinder is a risk visualization tool for Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF documents as well as zip files. It searches Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 documents encrypted by IRM (Information Rights Managements) or PWD (password) and Adobe Acrobat PDF documents and Zip files encrypted by PWD. The software can be used to scan [...]
Remote Batch Copy
Remote Batch Copy is a software tool to copy files to multiple remote network locations. Source files that get added to the application are copied to the selected destination folders on the remote locations. The selected source files can also come from different computers in a computer network so that Remote Batch Copy provides an [...]
Fast Firefox 3 Unsorted Bookmarks Access
Firefox 3 introduced a new feature called unsorted bookmarks. If you look at the Firefox 3 location bar you see a white star in the right end of the bar. Clicking on that star turns the color to yellow and adds the page to the unsorted bookmarks in Firefox. The problem with this process is [...]
Eric’s Movie Database
Eric’s Movie Database is a software program to organize and manage a movie collection. The lightweight application all the features that movie collectors would except from such an application. The software program concentrates on the collection aspect unlike other movie databases who desperately try to offer a unique feature that distinguishes themselves from the other [...]
Erase Data On CD Or DVD Permanently
Data CDs and DVDs that are no longer needed pose a few problems. Throwing them away could be a privacy risk because everyone who finds them could simply read them and discover what data has been stored on the disks. Destroying them by cutting, scratching or breaking on the other hand might release chemicals to [...]