The UEFA Champions League is one of the world’s major sport events that attracts fans from all over the world. The quarter finals are beginning this week with some exciting match lineups. A main problem however for many football fans worldwide is the limited availability of the event on local TV stations which is especially [...]
8 Sleeper Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons
Internet Explorer add-ons have been introduced by Microsoft in the previous editions of Internet Explorer. Despite the claim they never managed to come close to the popularity and inventiveness of add-ons produced by the Mozilla Firefox community. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 introduced a set of new features (accelerators and web slices) that fall into the [...]
Spice Up Google Search With Google Fx
Google Search has always been using a minimalistic design. While this serves several purposes like offering distraction free web searching and fast loading times it does fall a bit short for some users who prefer to access additional information right in the search interface. Google Fx is a Greasemonkey Script which means it works in [...]
Search and download from Flickr using zFlick
The ever so popular Adobe Air platform has given us a lot of useful apps, but few as tastefully done and as handy as this one. zFlick is an application which enables you to search for photos on Flickr, view them, and astonishingly enough, download them via drag and drop. Once you install the app, [...]
Keep logged in users informed with motd
If you have users that log into a server, or a desktop (for whatever reason) you might want to take advantage of the Linux Message Of The Day file. This file resides in the /etc directory and, when a user logs in, the contents of that file are displayed every time a user logs into [...]
Reduce Sound Volume Over Time With Sweet Dreams
If you are a user who likes to listen to music while slowly drifting of then Sweet Dreams might be the application that you have been waiting for. Most applications of this kind make use of a timer that shuts down the computer system or application. Sweet Dreams on the other hand is more sophisticated [...]
Do you use Twitter?
Twitter is a service which really baffles me. It is an absolute killer idea, but I am still astounded by the volume of traffic it has. I find it very useful for a number of things. It can automate some tasks, you can keep a personal log of things you’ve done, you can use itto [...]
Sopcast Internet TV Filter For Windows Media Player
Sopcast is a free Internet TV client that can be used by users worldwide to watch TV on their computer system. Most of the TV stations that get broadcast by Sopcast are in Chinese language. They are still very popular in many other countries as these channels tend to show live sports events that might [...]
Testing A New Theme
You might have already noticed that the WordPress theme has been changed here at Ghacks to a more minimalistic theme. I think the new theme combines an excellent design with good readability. The theme will be tested in the coming days to see if problems of any kind are experienced while displaying the new WordPress [...]