Most Firefox users make use of the bookmarking feature of the web browser to store interesting or important websites so that they can be visited at a later time again. Many of them do add bookmarks regularly while only a few delete unneeded bookmarks regularly which has the effect that the bookmarks folder grow with [...]
Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
It can happen that a installation in Windows fails. Reasons for it failing can be numerous from mundane reasons like running out of hard disk space to more serious ones that include Registry corruption or crashes. One problem that can arise from a failed software installation are installation leftovers that can not only impact disk [...]
Web Server Migration Today
I will be moving Ghacks to the new web server today which means that you might experience all kinds of problems with the site including disconnects, display errors, script errors or lack of updates because you are still being redirected to the old web server after the change to the DNS. The new managed server [...]
Bulk renaming made easy with Thunar bulk renamer
To many Thunar is just a file manager. But if you’ve played around with it you know it is much, much more. You may remember my previous article “Create custom actions with the Thunar file manager” which shows you one method of extending the application. There is one extra tool that comes with Thunar which [...]
Use Twitter As a Reminder Service
You are usually using Twitter day in day out if you are a Twitter fan(atic). And when you thought you reached the limit with what you can do a new service pops up that allows you to save and send reminders using the messaging service. Remind Me About is basically an Open Source php script [...]
Thunderbird 3 Beta 3
The third beta of Thunderbird 3 has been uploaded to the Mozilla servers and is now available for public download. The new beta release is available for all supported operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac) and interface languages. The new beta includes some of the core functionality that the development team plans to integrate into [...]
Google Voice Number Not Reachable
Google Voice is Google’s latest (currently invite only) service that assigns Google phone numbers to users which has the advantage that the number is not tied to any phone or other device. The Google Voice users decides where to route the Google Voice number to with the possibility to route it to multiple devices at [...]
Why you should not be an early adopter
Every so often you have a gadget or technological device that sets the wire news on fire. Recently we’ve been hearing much ado about Windows 7, iPhone 3GS, OSX Snow Leopard, SSD drives, OLED TV, HD cell phones and need I mention the Palm Pre and Blackberry’s first all touchscreen phone. The common trend among [...]
Make Claws Mail aware when you need top or bottom posting
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad ting? A: Top posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? I belong to a lot of mailing lists who’s members demand no top postingbe allowed in the list. I do follow this [...]