My favorite and default video player SMPlayer has been updated to version 0.6.7 today. SMPlayer is the complete video player solution for both the Windows and Linux operating system. It is basically a frontend for the much acclaimed MPlayer that is included in the distribution. SMPlayer comes both as a portable video player but also [...]
Creating a simple multi-lingual website
If you want to create a simple webpage for yourself, listing who you are, how you can be contected and what you do, you might want to add a few languages in there. You could use Google Translate, but that does not yield the best (and professional) results, so it would be best to translate [...]
Get To Know Linux: Lesser Known RPM Options
Using Linux, in one form or another, then you have dealt with one package manager or another. Be it apt, urpmi, dpkg, or rpm, they all have the same goal: Make package management consistent and easy. Each of those tools even have a front-end (or two) to make the job even easier. But there are [...]
Rapidshare Download Accelerator
We have covered Rapidshare search tips and Rapidshare tools like Rapidshare Download Manager or Rapidshare Links Downloader before and the Rapidshare Download Accelerator adds itself to the impressive list of useful tools to make the most of the file hosting service. The software program is portable but requires the Microsoft .net Framework to be installed. [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Final
Microsoft made an announcement earlier today that the final version of Internet Explorer 8 will be released today at noon EDT. The web browser can be downloaded from that time on from the official Internet Explorer 8 website in 25 language editions. Currently only the download of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is offered on that [...]
Device Driver Cleanup
It is sometimes not possible to remove all device drivers and Registry settings for a device in the Windows operating system. So called leftovers can cause a series of problems from slow boot times to performance and stability issues. Trying to cleanup the device drivers manually is a complicated long winded process as it does [...]
Use and make free, as in beer and freedom, maps with OpenStreetMap
Hundreds of websites offer mapping services, which highlight roads, railways, streets and scores of other things. Most of these sites charge for commercial use of their data and almost certainly won’t allow users to change the maps in a wiki-like fashion. OpenStreetMap is a project to provide maps, like Google Maps does. Unlike sites like [...]
Handy GNOME Keyboard Shortcuts
Are you like me and one of those users who HATES going back and forth from keyboard to mouse? Such a waste of precious time that back and forth movement. To be a seriously efficient Linux user it’s best to know keyboard shortcuts for the desktop environment (or window manager) that you use. In this [...]
Microsoft Outlook Mail Autocomplete Manager
Whenever you enter an email address in the to, cc or bcc fields of Microsoft Outlook they get automatically added to the autocomplete list of the email software if the email is send. This autocomplete list grows over time and will contain not only valid email addresses but also those that are no longer working [...]