Jellybean is not your usual wallpaper changer. That much becomes apparent after launching the application for the first time. The options to change wallpapers are limited to changing them manually in the interface or once at system startup. There are no options to change wallpapers automatically if the system is running and it also does [...]
Desktop RSS Reader GreatNews
You might remember that I switched from web based rss readers to desktop rss readers some time ago. Reasons for that switch where manifold including performance issues but also security concerns. FeedDemon was the desktop rss news reader of choice after trying out several available one that got recommended by users. FeedDemon is still the [...]
Creating Screencasts in Linux with gtk-recordmydesktop
Recently I installed the amazing desktop Elive Compiz. After getting it up and running I decided I needed to get some screencasts of the desktop in order to show off what it could do. I thought the task would be simple. It wasn’t. Although there are plenty of applications to handle capturing videos of a [...]
QuickWiki Integrates Wiktionary And Wikipedia Into Firefox
QuickWiki is a handy experimental Firefox add-on for users who work with Wikipedia and Wiktionary regularly. The Firefox add-on adds a quick look up feature into the web browser that can be used to quickly gain information about a selected word or phrase on a website. QuickWiki opens the information that it has retrieved in [...]
TwitSaver Twitter Screensaver
Of all the currently released Twitter screensavers Twitsaver is definitely one of the more interesting ones. Unlike Twitter Screensavers like Flitter or TwittEarth that concentrate on the locations and messages that are send by Twitter users Twitsaver does concentrate on images that get referenced by Twitter users. The homepage does not contain information about the [...]
Chrome Password Recovery Tool
ChromePass is a portable application that has been created by one of our favorite software developers Nirsoft. Its purpose is to provide the means to recover passwords that have been saved in the Chrome web browser. Chrome, like most web browsers, provides the means to store login information to access websites faster on consecutive visits. [...]
oGET integrates Download Managers Into Opera
oGet is an extension for the Opera 9 web browser that integrates 27 different download managers into the browser. It works similar to Flashgot, the popular download manager extension for Firefox, by adding menu entries to the right click menu of the web browser. The following new features are added by the oGET extension: catch [...]
Spotify: Music legally on demand
gHacks suggested Spotify as an alternative to Pandora last year, and Spotify has recently gained a lot of attention in the British press. I thought it may be wise to discuss Spotify on here. Spotify is a service which allows users to stream many songs online free and legally. The service is ad-supported and currently [...]
Firefox Link Extend
If you are a cautious user on the Internet you might want to find out as much as possible about sites that you are going to visit before actually visiting them. The basic concept of Link Extend is to provide a wide range of information about a selected link. It queries more than 20 different [...]