EncodeHD is a portable video encoding software that has been designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind. The video encoding software supports various output devices including Apple TV, Blackberrys, iPods, the iPhone, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP and Zune and offers one click batch conversions of various source video formats. The user of the [...]
How To Display Valid Markup Code In Websites
There are two difficulties or problems that Internet users encounter when they want to paste code into forms to display these on the Internet. The first problem that can be encountered is that the website will interpret part or all of the code instead of displaying it. A basic example would be to display the [...]
Gmail Account Manager
Google’s email service Gmail is highly popular. One of the restrictions that many users face is that it only allows to sign into one account at a time in the web interface. That’s problematic if a user operates multiple accounts and needs to check them regularly. This is for example the case in companies that [...]
uTorrent 1.8.2 Final
A new version of the popular Bittorrent client uTorrent has been released yesterday evening; The release has been classified as final which means that it should be safe to upgrade uTorrent to this version. The developers are already working on uTorrent 1.8.3 and 1.9 but those are in beta and alpha stage currently and only [...]
Appnews Stats After A Week
We have started Appnews, a software update service, about a week ago and Rarst was so nice to compile a few stats after the first seven days of service. If you have not heard about Appnews before you might want to check out the introductory posts at Ghacks, Rarst and Freeware Genius to get an [...]
Internet Security: Comodo Verification Engine
The Internet is a dangerous place. Danger not only exists on the dark side of the net but also on the light side, on respected Internet sites. It is therefor important to use an assortment of Internet security tools to prevent and identify attacks on the Internet. It is not just financial transactions – like [...]
Search Web Sites In Firefox Web Browser
You can use the site: parameter in search engines like Google or Yahoo to do so. The site:ghacks.net firefox command would for example display all Ghacks pages that refer to the Firefox web browser. The Firefox add-on Search Site makes these parameter more accessible by providing direct access to it. A user on Ghacks could [...]
Get to know Linux: Fluxbox
If you’ve been around Linux long enough, then you most likely will have heard about Fluxbox. Fluxbox is a desktop that was based on Blackbox 0.61.1, which makes it extremely light weight, fast, and reliable. Fluxbox is also very minimalistic which makes it ideal for certain situations. Although Fluxbox might seem somewhat lacking in the [...]
Display Cached RSS Feed In Your Website
You might remember the announcement of our new web project Appnews which basically displays software updates in a friendly easily accessible way. What I wanted to do now is to display the five newest items of the RSS feed in the sidebar of this blog to both promote the appnews service but also provide a [...]