The final version of the popular media player VLC 1.1 has just been released by its developers. The Open Source player continues to roll over the majority of competing players by being among the first to introduce support for WebM decoding and encoding, gpu decoding on Windows and Linux and an overall decoding speed increase.
Get Windows and Office Super-Cheap
I’ve long been a subscriber to Microsoft’s Action Pack which is for small businesses. You get 10 licences for Windows and Office plus a Windows Server licence or two for £220 a year. Plus the software never expires. Many people say that subscription software is the way we’re all going but I’ve been making significant [...]
Twitter Links Added To Ghacks
Regular readers might have already spotted a new feature that I have just enabled. The comment form now lists a Twitter ID field next to the standard username, website and email fields that existed before. Ghacks commenters who add their Twitter username to the Twitter ID field in the comment form will have their comment [...]
Java Portable
Java Portable has been designed specifically for situations where Java support is needed but not necessarily guaranteed on the host system. The distribution is part of the Portable Apps collection and compatible with Java dependent applications that are offered on the site. The portable Java installer can be downloaded from the Portable Apps website. It [...]
Opera 10.54 Released
Not every Opera user has the cutting edge snapshots of the upcoming Opera 10.60 browser installed. The latest public version of Opera is 10.53 and users of that or an earlier version are asked to updated to Opera 10.54 immediately to close several security vulnerabilities in those Opera versions. The announcement at the Opera Desktop [...]
Get Free Screen Capture Software Ashampoo Snap 3
Ashampoo are currently running a promotion for their screen capture software Snap 3 offering it for free to anyone visiting the promotional web page. Snap 3 is a comprehensive capturing software that can not only capture screenshots but also video. It supports two video modes which can both capture the entire screen, a program window [...]
Guake: Hide-able terminal goodness
As you well know, I am a big fan of the Linux command line. Because of this I use the terminal a lot. I am also a fan of Linux eye candy and making my desktop as clean and sleek as possible. I don’t like to have things in the way and I like easy [...]
Configure Word To Automatically Save Local Document Copies
Microsoft Word can be used to load local or remote documents. Remote documents can for instance be hosted on a network drive or removable storage device. Word users who often work with remote documents may have experienced data loss in the past if the connection to the network drive or storage device was lost while [...]
Centralized Internet Fraud Alert System Launches
The Internet Fraud Alert System is a partnership between Microsoft and the US National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) backed up by organizations and companies like Accuity, American Bankers Association, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, eBay and PayPal. The system addresses a problem that security researchers and companies have faced in the past. Security researchers [...]