The Instant Messenger MSN Messenger prevents a user from starting multiple instances of the application. Running multiple instances might be useful for users who want to use different accounts for business and private contacts or two separate businesses. It would be possible to use two different clients, for example MSN Messenger and Meebo to connect [...]
Teamviewer Client Shortcuts
Lee Mathews posted an interesting Teamviewer tip on his new blog aimed at computer administrators. He explained how to create shortcuts to client computers on the computer of the administrator to quickly access the client’s PCs without having to enter data. All that would be needed to connect is the execution of the shortcut. Teamviewer [...]
Nationwide Internet Censorship Planned In Australia
The democratic west, with all its ideals of free speech, free religion and believes, is on the forefront of demolishing those ideals for the greater good as politicians like to call it. The greater good can be terrorism, child pornography, pornography, different believes, different political views, violent video games or anything else that politicians might [...]
Decrease Noise Of LCD Displays
In the past two years I bought a 42″ Samsung LCD television and a 24″ HP computer monitor and experienced the same level of noise which originated from the same source in both of them. The noise was a buzzing sound coming from the LCD display that was audible and nerve-racking. One usually thinks about [...]
Split The Firefox Browser
The Ask The Readers article yesterday asked for recommendations for splitting the browser window in Firefox so that two websites could be displayed next to each other. The general consensus was to use the Split Browser extension for Firefox. The Firefox extension Split Browser can split the Firefox screen into multiple areas. Each area can [...]
Acer Vista Grid
Frank, one of gHacks’ readers pointed me in the direction of a great little tool called Acer Vista Grid: …a freeware program I recently came across that I quite enjoy is Acer GridVista. It allows you to split a monitor into multiple sections. For example, I have my 17" split into two. In one virtual [...]
Ask The Readers: Best Tool To Split Firefox Tabs
While checking for new Google Chrome plugins I stumbled upon a plugin called Dual View which made it possible to display two websites in a split tab. This could actually be very handy for numerous reasons like writing articles with a reference site open on the screen which would eliminate the need to switch between [...]
5Min Life Videopedia
Youtube sits tightly on its spot as the number one video portal in the world. It’s extremely hard to compete Youtube, comparable to the problems that search engines have to compete with Google. One way of dealing with this challenge is to provide a specialized video service. 5Min is one of those specialized video portals. [...]
Remove Invalid Windows Shortcuts
The computer desktop is not the only location where shortcuts can usually be found. The Windows start menu and the user’s documents and settings directory are two additional locations where lots of windows shortcuts can be found. The main problem with these is the fact that they do not get automatically updated if the user [...]