Having subscriptions to hundreds of RSS news feeds can sometimes mean news overkill. This is especially true for times when a big new application or service gets announced because these usually get picked up by more than 20% of all the tech sites out there. News Filtering – or keyword filtering – describes the process [...]
ping.fm: Update all your social networks at once
Sites like Twitter have scores of competitors and it is possible that for someone to effectively socially network, they will have to use sites other than their preferred one. It is obviously quite a chore to have to update Twitter, Facebook, Pownce etc separately. Commenter reactive pointed out ping.fm, a website which in fact I [...]
ISO Format Converter
Disk images come in various formats like the popular ISO format but also img, bin, mdf, cdi, nrg or b51. The formats are created by various applications and one hardly comes upon a burning software that can burn all of the formats. Converting the formats into a supported format is probably the best solution if [...]
Ghacks Christmas Giveaway Announcement
I actually had the idea last year but did not pursuit it enough to make it happen in 2007. This year however is different. I’m very proud to announce the first annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. We will provide visitors with the opportunity to win excellent software programs (and probably other things as well) from December [...]
Access Blocked Websites By Email
Many companies, schools or universities love to block popular websites. A large proportion of computer users however start digging around to find ways to overcome the block instead of concentrating on work. Many make use of web proxies to access blocked websites. Proxies however come and go rapidly and get blocked very fast as well. [...]
Add Trash To Firefox Bookmarks
Deleting bookmarks in Firefox will remove them permanently from the web browser. There is no going back which might sometimes end in chaos and desperation. Some users might feel more secure with some sort of backup to recover accidentally deleted bookmarks. That’s where Bookmark Trash comes into play. It adds A Bookmark Trash folder to [...]
10 Annoying Aspects Of Tech Blogs
Good old Rarst posted another interesting article today about 10 things that make tech blogs unreadable. He has become quite the little ranter over at his Rarst stronghold but I have to admit that he has a point. His post got me thinking about aspects of tech blogs that I dislike and I came up [...]
Hash Tab Shell Extension
Many users shy away as soon as they hear the words hash or shell extension because of the connotation that the conversation will turn into a highly technical – and geeky – one. The concept itself however is pretty simple that even a inexperienced computer user should understand it. A hash is just a string [...]
Google Reader Essentials Userscript
Helvetireader is a minimal Google Reader interface theme supplied as a userscript that turns Google Reader into an optimized feed reader that is displaying only the essentials. It was especially designed to view feeds in the expanded view using keyboard shortcuts. A userscript compatible browser is needed for the new interface theme to work. Long [...]