If you follow the news on Ghacks you know that Google Chrome is the first web browser that offers an internal Flash plugin to enable Flash support in the web browser. The internal Flash plugin is turned on by default so that all users of the web browser can access Flash based web contents even [...]
Flash Cookies Cleaner
Flash Cookies are files that can be stored on the user’s computer system. They are often used for tracking purposes but also to store preferences and session data. Flash Cookies can be deleted by visiting the Flash controls on the Internet or by using third party programs like CCleaner. The portable software Flash Cookies Cleaner [...]
iPad now available to buy worldwide
Apple have done extremely well with US sales of the iPad, though let’s not forget that the US is Apple’s biggest market. Even so the iPad tablet computer is now available for sale worldwide. Today it has officially gone on sale in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Japan was [...]
Firefox 3.6.4 Beta Build 6 Released, Final Next Week
The Mozilla Firefox developers have released a new beta build of the upcoming Firefox 3.6.4 web browser which is already available through the internal update checker in Firefox. Firefox 3.6.4 Beta Build 6 is very close to the final version of Firefox 3.6.4 which is expected to be released on June 1, 2010. The release [...]
Tudou.com Online Video Hosting Site
Tudou.com is the first entry in our new site review series that takes a look at very popular sites that you may have never heard about before. Tudou is the most popular online video hosting site in China with more than 100 million video views and 40,000 new videos per day. While that does not [...]
Installing software in OpenSuSE with YaST
Let’s continue our hayride with OpenSuSE. The last time we visited this operating system we took a look at the stellar YaST tool (see my article “YaST: Yet Another Setup Tool“). From within that tool you could easily access the YaST Software Installation tool for OpenSuSE. This tool is about as user-friendly as any of [...]
Stay Focusd Helps You Stay Work Focused
Some computer users have no problems completing their daily work chores without ever giving in to distractions while others might need a little extra help to stay work focused. Has it ever happened to you that you sit down on your computer to finish some work and be productive only to be distracted by emails, [...]
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 RC 1 Released
The first release candidate of the email client Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 has just been released and is now available for download at the official Mozilla Messaging site and direct update via the update check in the desktop email client. Thunderbird 3.1 will replace the Thunderbird 3.0 branch once it is released introducing several new features [...]
Switch Default Computer Printers Automatically
Automatic Printer Switcher is a helpful tool for users who work in computing environments with multiple printers that are used regularly for different print jobs. The free program can be used to link document types or programs with printers so that it becomes possible to configure default printers for each which are then automatically selected [...]