Greasemonkey userscripts can be very helpful in many situations that are regularly encountered on the web. They manipulate elements on a website to either remove, add or change them without the user noticing in the background. There are basic scripts that have been designed for one specific purpose like removing all ads on a website [...]
Free Paragon Software Special Editions
It has been a while since we last covered free downloads of commercial software programs. This time it is a collection of software programs from Paragon Software. The programs are so called special editions which have a few limitations. Among them a limitation for private usage only, no upgrade possibilities to newer versions and no [...]
5 Google Browser Tips
Google Chrome – or its Open Source counterpart Chromium – is a relatively new web browser developed by Google. It combines several interesting features and ideas that the other Internet browsers do not offer. This article will examine five interesting features of the Google browser. Some of them can be added to other web browsers [...]
Home Budget Software
Keeping track of expenses is important for every household to be able to see how the money is spend. This gives those that keep track the opportunity to optimize their budget. Home budget software is but one possibility on how to keep track of the budget and expenses. Software has several advantages over paper based [...]
Google Browser: 11 Short Films
The Google browser is not really taking off as Google might have expected even though it is advertised in virtually every Google service on the Internet. That does not keep Google from using unorthodox promotion techniques. You might remember that the web browser was introduced with a comic. Their last endeavor are 11 short films [...]
Sleep Talking Mode To Save Energy
Sleep Mode – which goes under the name standby, sleep or suspend depending on the operating system in use – has been created to save energy in situations where a computer system does not perform any active calculations. The operating system will power down most of the connected hardware devices except for the computer memory [...]
Document Viewer TextMaker Viewer 2009
Users who regularly work with document formats like doc, docx or odt usually install one of the larger Office suites like Microsoft Office or Open Office on their computer system to do so. Many use the same programs for viewing those document formats as well. While they are compatible with most of them they do [...]
Inline Google Search in Gmail
It seems like I’m the resident Google Labs reporter here at gHacks, but truth be told, they have been rolling out some cool features! Their latest is the ability to search Google inline from Gmail. Enabling the feature ads a Google search bar to the left sidebar in the Gmail interface. If you search from [...]
Use Spamassassin for better SPAM detection
The Linux operating system is typically immune to viruses attached to email. But it is not immune to SPAM. Left unfiltered your inbox would quickly fill up with more SPAM than you care to delete. What is worse is owning a mail server and not protecting your users from a barrage of SPAM. By employing [...]