Professional webmasters and system administrators have to make sure that their web servers, websites and services are monitored constantly to be able to react immediately if one of the systems or services fails. But it is not always the professional users who needs those tools. Basically any user who runs a website or server should [...]
Improve Firefox’s Bookmarks Management With Incredible Bookmarks
Firefox’s bookmarks management capabilities are limited. It is for instance not possible to check for duplicate bookmarks or dead links in the bookmarks manager or to comfortably change the bookmarks that are displayed in one of the web browser toolbars. The Incredible Bookmarks add-on for Firefox changes this. It is an all bases covered add-on [...]
Ghacks Giveaway DVDFast Video Converter PRO
The amount of different video formats available make it sometimes necessary to convert them from one format into the other. This is for instance relevant if a video is only available in a format that another device is not able to play back, say a downloaded video from Youtube that the user wants to view [...]
Google Goggles
Text based search is the most prominent search available on the Internet these days. Most search engines, with the exception of a few specialized ones, require text input to be able to crawl their databases for hits on the topic. Google Goggles is a new application for the Android operating system that allows the user [...]
Create your own social network site with Elgg
The social scene has nearly reached critical mass. You can not peak around the internet without seeing its tendrils reaching deep within the fabric of every site you visit. This, of course, can cause problems with your work, school, or group environment. While work is supposed to be done, your users/employees are socializing on Facebook, Twitter, [...]
Google Launches Real-time Search
We knew that it would be coming eventually and the time apparently has come today. At least for some users that is as Google stays true to its policy to roll out changes to their services over time. Real-time search is an addition to the standard Google search results that users see when they perform [...]
Bitlocker Encryption Not 100% Secure After All
Earlier this year a method to get access to date encrypted with the Open Source software True Crypt was published by security researchers which involved physical access to the protected computer system. Back then many commenters and so called security experts mentioned that this was one of the main differences to Microsoft’s Bitlocker encryption. The [...]
Sync Facebook Photos With Outlook Contacts
Microsoft’s Outlook email client comes with an option to add photos to contacts that have been automatically or manually by the user. This does make sense as it becomes easier to identify contacts in the email program. It can however mean lots of work if the address book consists of more than a few dozens [...]
Web Design Tool DENIM
DENIM is a web design tool to help web designers in the early stages of the design process. The program provides the web designer with the means to sketch the website at various levels of refinement from a global site map view to individual pages and details on those pages. The main interface of the [...]