The option to sort bookmarks in Firefox is tucked away in the Bookmarking Manager. While the sorting options should be sufficient for most users the lack of distinguishing between different kind of bookmarks and the temporariness of the selected options make it barely usable. Sort Places is an experimentally Firefox add-on that provides better and [...]
Sync Firefox Bookmarks Without Third Party Help
Accessing the Internet on two different computers regularly makes many users crave for data synchronization solutions to be able to access the same bookmarks, email accounts or other data on all computers. Several extensions are available for the Firefox browser that allow bookmark synchronization: Mozilla Weave and Foxmarks to name two. Both services use remote [...]
Google Chrome Adds Greasemonkey Support
One of the elementary things that the Google browser is missing is support for some kind of plugins or extensions that Firefox offers for a long time. Google announced plans to support an extension API in later builds of the web browser but it currently lacks that support and that could be one of the [...]
Apple Might Be Watching You
What is good customer service? Customers would usually state that good customer service means fast and effective solutions for difficulties with a product of a company. What about a company that actively monitors forums and initiates the contact with the customer? That is apparently what has happened to Nicole Gorski (via Softpedia, thanks Dante) who [...]
aMSN: Winks and webcams on Mac and Linux
Adium and Pidgin, the popular multi-network IM clients popular on OS X and Linux, lacks support for many features of MSN Messenger, such as webcams, audio conversations, voice clips and winks. This can prove to be annoying if the other party of the conversation wants to conference but lacks software such as Skype. aMSN is [...]
Online Desktop Recorder ScreenToaster
Using an online desktop recorder like ScreenToaster eliminates the problem of having to install software on a computer system first before being able to record the computer screen. ScreenToaster is a free online service build with Java that can record the full desktop or just part of it by drawing a rectangular shape around the [...]
Teamviewer Portable
The remote desktop access software Teamviewer has already been covered multiple times at Ghacks. It is an efficient software that requires barely any configuration to function properly which makes it excellent for technical support. It can also be used for presentations, file transfers and virtual private networks. One interesting feature of Teamviewer is Teamviewer portable [...]
Windows xKill
The only way to terminate an application in Windows when it freezes is to open the Windows Task Manager and terminate it this way. It sometimes works by right-clicking the application in the Windows Statusbar and selecting close but this option is usually not working. It can also happen that it takes some time before [...]
Test Your Browser’s JavaScript Performance
Cnet ran some tests on the JavaScript performance of selected browsers like the latest Firefox version, Firefox beta and Google Chrome builds. JavaScript performance was in the news since Google and the Mozilla Firefox development team announced improvements in JavaScript performance. Cnet used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark to test browser performance of the browsers. There [...]