In order to improve connection times for users from all over the world, Ghacks enabled a content delivery network (CDN) yesterday. A CDN basically stores files and information on mirror servers all around the world in order to serve data to users from locations closest to them. This speeds up the connection process noticeably. In [...]
Luckybackup: Linux backup made easy
There are a lot of backup tools out there. From the overly simple to the overly complex. Many of those backup tools go unnoticed and unused. Some of them get recognized as the outstanding projects they are. One of those tools is Luckybackup. This tool was awarded Sourceforge’s best new project of 2009. There is [...]
Google Chrome Native Flash Plugin Enabled By Default
Adobe Flash was natively integrated into the Google Chrome browser two weeks ago. As usual the feature was disabled by default at first and had to be enabled with a startup parameter. The latest update to the developer release version of the Google browser changes this by enabling the Flash plugin by default in the [...]
Convert Youtube Videos To MP3
The video hosting website Youtube hosts all kinds of videos from movie trailers to music videos, from educational videos to personal ones. We all know that it is possible to download videos from Youtube so that they can be watched locally without additional bandwidth costs. Furthermore, it is possible to copy the videos to devices [...]
Opera Mini Now Available In Appleland
Opera Mini is a version of the Opera web browser that has been optimized for mobile usage. It is a very popular mobile browser that has hit the 50 million active user mark in March 2010. It was all over the news some time ago that Opera was developing a version of Opera Mini for [...]
Google Docs Rolls Out New Features
Hot off the press: Google has updated Google Docs with some major improvements. Google Docs is a document storage and editing service offered by Google. Users with a Google account can upload documents and files to the service, view and edit documents online and save them to a local computer system. Google Docs supports many [...]
Last.fm Stops On-Demand Streaming
The music streaming service Last.fm announced earlier today in a blog post that they would retire their on-demand track streaming for customers in the UK, US and Germany. On-Demand playback on Last.fm was restricted to some countries and basically allowed users from those countries to listen to full-length previews of those songs. Last.fm radio streams [...]
Final stages of the eGroupware Installation
We are plowing forward with the eGroupware installation. We have already been introduced to eGroupware (see my article “eGroupware: Your Exchange replacement has arrived“), we have also seen how to take care of all the prerequisites (see my article “How to install eGroupware“), and finally we’ve seen how to create the header.inc.php (see my article [...]
Opera Browser Surpasses 50 Million Desktop Users
The Opera web browser was always the underdog in the web browser world. First it was Internet Explorer and Netscape battling it out and then later on Internet Explorer and Firefox. Opera was always a solid alternative that had a very loyal user base. The situation does not seem to have changed by much in [...]