Microsoft has released the long awaited release candidate build of their upcoming Windows 7 operating system according to a post on Windows 7 News. The post refers to a page on the Microsoft Partner Program website containing a download link for the Windows 7 release candidate that is currently only available to selected partners. It [...]
The best Linux media players
Recently I have had a lot of people asking how to play various media files in Linux. Since most users are migrating over from either Mac or Windows, they are either used to one single application handling their media files or at least knowing exactly what apps handle each media type. When they migrate over [...]
uTorrent Port Checker Online
Port forwarding is not something that needs to be configured on most computer systems. It basically describes the concept of forwarding connections to a specific local computer system. Usually a computer router, firewall or other hardware device that is managing or controlling traffic is involved in the process and needs to be configured to forward [...]
Things To Do When Your Motherboard OnBoard Lan Dies
The onboard LAN of my Gigabyte ep35-ds4 motherboard died just a few hours ago. Was surfing the Internet and suddenly connection errors showed up. That’s bad as the onboard LAN is located on the motherboard of the computer system. It could be that not only the LAN died but also other components. Now what can [...]
Gmail now suggests recipients
It seems that Gmail is set to read your mind, it now suggests recipients to your emails! No, Mr Brin and Page are not inside your head, the application simply monitors groups you frequently send emails to. If you frequently send emails and sometimes there are some “crossovers”, this is a handy feature which can [...]
Toggle Em All Bookmarklet Makes Check Box Checking Comfortable
Ever came across a situation where you had to check multiple check boxes on a website? Webmasters encounter these type of check boxes fairly regular when editing comments on their websites or moderating forum posts. Some websites and scripts provide a check all button that can be pressed but what if there is none available? [...]
My First Tryst with Ubuntu: Things Worked. Mostly.
In my last post, I mentioned wanting to try out Linux, specifically Ubuntu. After much consideration and with the help of the Ghacks readers, I decided to try the Ubuntu LiveCD before actually installing it. However, I first had to bump up my laptop’s RAM, which took a while. It’s tough to get compatible DDR [...]
Microsoft Translator For Microsoft Office
Microsoft has released an add-on for Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 that adds their Live Search Translator to these programs replacing the default WorldLingo translator. Replacing is not probably the best word to describe it as WorldLingo is still available and can be selected on a language per language basis in the translation [...]
WinLAME 2009 Beta Released
If you are looking for an easy to use music encoder you might want to give the latest version of winLame a try. Beta 1 of the 2009 release has just been made available on the official homepage of the project adding several improvements to previous versions of the lame frontend for the Windows operating [...]