Firefox 3 displays five bars at the top of the application window before it is starting to show the website’s contents. There is the title bar, the menu, the navigation toolbar, the bookmarks toolbar and the tabs of course. They take up about 132 pixels in height on the screen which is more than a [...]
Video Analysis Software Kinovea
Video analysis is an area that we have not covered before here at Ghacks. Kinovea is an Open Source video analysis software for coaches, athletes and medical professionals. It can be used by anyone else obviously since it is freely available from the program’s homepage. It can be used to analyze virtually anything from Wii [...]
IM over a LAN
There are plenty of IM networks available but most must connect to a remote server, something which is unnecessary for a business, school or home network and lowers the network’s performance. It also makes IM impractical on networks not connected online for security reasons. Some IM networks can easily be adapted to run on a [...]
RSS Feed Filter Feedrinse
Feedrinse is a basic RSS feed filter that can be used to filter one or multiple feeds so that only selected articles will be included in the mashup. This could remind a few users of Yahoo Pipes. The service provided by Feedrinse is however basic in comparison to that of Yahoo Pipes. A user of [...]
Microsoft Word Metadata Scrubber
Metadata in Word documents can reveal information that the creator of the document had no intention to distribute. This ranges from information about the author to comments and a unique identifying ID. It can lead to all kind of privacy leaks. Microsoft even recommends to distribute documents in paper form only on their website. Doc [...]
Manage Firefox Plugins
One relative unknown feature of Firefox 3 is the ability to manage plugins in the browser’s interface. Many would be surprised that this feature is now available in the Firefox Add-ons menu. The add-ons menu has been revamped in Firefox 3 to include new features such as searching for and installing Firefox add-ons right from [...]
Download Facebook Videos
Facebook users can upload and embed videos on the popular social network. Facebook does not provide ways to download or export the videos and they even state in the Facebook faq that users will not be able to download or export videos. Some might want to do so on the other hand for various reasons. [...]
Elf Yourself Redesigned
Last year, around the same time, we spotted a very interesting service that made it possible to dress five people as elfs and have them perform a dance afterwards. The Elf Yourself craze was born and it quickly became a popular website. On a sidenote, my nephew who was 4 at the time, loved to [...]
Join Mp3 From The Command Line
Lots of tools can join multiple mp3 files into one mp3 file that contains all the bits of the original files. Mp3 files but also files with the ogg extension can be concatenated easily because of the way the data is structured. The following command line argument will not work with many other file types [...]