A very handy feature for many users – especially those that have to cope with low screen resolutions – is the ability to maximize web browser with the F11 key. Pressing that key will not only maximize the window but hide certain elements like the title bar of the browser window. This increases the available [...]
Acer Aspire One Fan Control
A friend recently contacted me telling me that the fan of his Acer Aspire One laptop made him go nuts. He felt that it was way to loud and wanted to know if there was a program to reduce the noise that the netbook makes. I quickly stumbled upon the Acer Aspire One Fan Control [...]
Google Ad Planner
It has been a long time since I have last written about advertising opportunities. Mainly because of the lack of changes in the advertising setup here at Ghacks. Some things have changed in the last few months and I would like to kick of an advertising mini series with the article about Google’s Ad Planner, [...]
Universal Document Viewer
We reviewed the document viewer TextMaker Viewer 2009 a while ago. It was a program that could display the contents of various document formats like the popular pdf, txt and doc formats but also newer formats used by Microsoft Office 2007 and the latest version of Open Office. While it did provide a nice way [...]
Add transparent windows with transset
In my last post I instructed you how Adding dropshadows in Fluxbox with xcompmgr was easy to do.In this installment we are going to take this one step further and and transparencies – only this time we are going to do this in Enlightenment. Why Enlightenment? Besides being my favorite Linux window manager, it also [...]
Automatically Import Music Into iTunes
The same software developer who created the iTunes Playlist Exporter has created another useful third party tool for Apple’s iTunes media manager. The software is called iWatchSyncer and its main purpose is to monitor a folder on the local hard drive for new music to synchronize it with the iTunes software. The software has been [...]
iTunes Playlist Exporter
The popular music manager iTunes offers a great and easy way of creating playlists. It takes a few clicks to create and fill a playlist in the iTunes software. There is however no official way of exporting playlists from iTunes to the computer system. This might be interesting for users who want to transfer playlists [...]
Flickr File Synchronization Software
FlickrSync is an Open Source file synchronization software that synchronizes photos with the popular photo hosting site Flickr. It has to be authorized for communication with Flickr on first run on the Flickr homepage but runs independently from the photo hosting site afterwards. The interface consists of a basic folder browser which can be used [...]
Rotate Laptop Monitor Screen
Some laptop monitor screens are not suited for reading large texts on them due to the amount of scrolling involved to read them. While the width of the screen is usually appropriate to prevent horizontal scrolling the height of the laptop screen results in lots of vertical scrolling. A small utility to rotate the laptop [...]