Operating Systems and web design took a turn for the better around the beginning of this century, Apple introduced OSX 10, Microsoft brought out Windows XP and CSS began to be increasingly adopted. It would be fair to say that Google and Apple have provided the most unique design directions over the last 10 years, [...]
Google Chrome Dual View
Google Chrome Dual View makes it possible to split the Google Chrome browser into a left and right part that can each contain and display a website. Since there is no extension engine yet for Google Chrome the functionality is provided by a bookmarklet which has its impacts on usability. Users with large computer monitors [...]
Ashampoo Burning Studio Free
What are the main requirements of a burning software? It should obviously support all operations that a user would need. It should also be fast, resource friendly. Free would be nice as well. Lots of different CD burning software programs are available these days on the Internet, from CD Burner XP over Deepburner to IMGBurn. [...]
Photo Cropping With JPEGCrops
Photos taken by digital cameras are usually taken in 4:3 format which usually results in the wrong resolution for photo printing. An easy way to change the image format is to use photo cropping software like JPEGCrops. The software program comes as a portable or installer which essentially work the same way. Photos can be [...]
Software Updates Week 41 2008
Wednesday is the day that software updates get published here at Ghacks. The article will contain software updates of the last seven days. Only software applications that have been reviewed at Ghacks previously will make it in the list. Many of the applications in the list are beta or release candidate versions which might be [...]
Turn Your Mobile Phone Into A PC Remote Control
MobileWitch Remote Control turns your mobile phone into a remote control that can control various applications on your PC. The software does have a few limitations and requirements though. Both the PC and mobile phone have to support Bluetooth which is being used to send and receive the data. The user installs a server on [...]
The Web Explodes With Windows 7 News
I wanted to write a nice article over at the Windows 7 website that I run with Everton from Connected Internet but the server is running slow all day which is somewhat ironic. The most important day of the year regarding Windows 7 and the Windows 7 site is to slow to post on. We [...]
AltMove Windows And Mouse Manager
AltMove is a portable software for Windows that extends the interaction possibilities between windows and the computer mouse. It adds seven new actions to various keyboard and mouse combinations. Among them interesting options like creating a screenshot of the active window with right Ctrl and a left mouse click, minimizing or maximizing windows by pressing [...]
Access Google Calendar Without Leaving The Page
GCal Popup is an experimental Firefox extension that is compatible with Firefox 1.5 to 3.x. It integrates Google Calendar nicely into Firefox by providing a button in the Firefox status bar which, when clicked, will open Google Calendar as an overlay of the current website. The benefit of using Gcal Popup is that it is [...]