Reports about blue screens began to appear on the Internet shortly after the release of this month’s security patches for the Windows operating system. Especially Windows XP users seemed to have been affected by the crashes which were first thought to be linked to the update. Microsoft addressed the issue shortly after reports began to [...]
Configure KDE 4 to work with Compiz
If you read my most recent article (“Upgrading to KDE 4.3.5 and should you“) you will have noticed two things: 1) I am behind by one release on my KDE updates ;-) and 2) KDE has come a long, long way since 4.2. For the longest time one of the reasons I didn’t use KDE [...]
Youtube Disco
Find, Mix and Watch. That is the slogan of Youtube’s newest addition Youtube Disco. The new feature is basically a music exploration service. It begins by entering an artist, band or song in the search form on the start page. Youtube will then crawl its vast database and display a results page that consists of [...]
Keep Firefox Menus Open After Selection
If you ever wanted to open a few websites from a bookmarks folder, the history or the autocomplete option in Firefox you know that it requires more work than it should. The menus close automatically after each selection which makes that selection process time consuming and uncomfortable. There is no workaround available for this with [...]
Upgrading to KDE 4.3.5 (and should you?)
This morning I decided to go ahead and upgrade KDE to the latest, stable release. I had grown weary of this Linux desktop because of instability issue as well as lack of compelling reasons to use it. Even so I have tried to keep as up to date as possible, in order to continue to [...]
Optimize Windows Startup Programs With Start-Q
The Windows operating system launches all startup programs more or less at the same time during system start. This can slow down the startup of the system significantly especially with multiple applications in the autostart list. The consequence for the user is a slower unresponsive system until the programs have all been started. The most [...]
Merge PDF Files With PDF Binder
There are several scenarios where users might want to merge PDF files on their computer system. Some of the most popular are to join multiple pdf files into one for easier access, to merge collaborative work into one larger pdf file and to combine multiple documents into one before sending it out via email. PDF [...]
Google Translate Bar Ported From Chrome For Firefox
One of the new features of Google Chrome 5 is a Google Translate bar that pops up automatically if a website uses a different language from the user’s system language. Not all Chrome uses like the new feature in the latest development releases of the web browser which becomes apparent if you read the comments [...]
Top 5 top 5s for Linux
I’ve been using Linux for longer than I can remember. Over those years I have written a number of “top 5″ lists for various publications. So I thought it would be fun to share with the Ghacks readers my “top 5 top 5s”. I’ll give the category and a short description of each entry in [...]