How do you know if an online business is legit or a scam? Many Internet users share their personal information online even though they should not be doing so, at least not on websites that should not be trusted. Information can be used against the user, especially if they happen to enter social security numbers, [...]
Run Compiz with Xfce4
So you’re enjoy the series on Xfce4. What’s more, you’re enjoying Xfce4 itself! It’s a fantastic desktop environment that should get far more attention than it does. And because Xfce 4 is so lightweight, you might get the idea that you could easily add more to it and hardly feel the hit. You are very [...]
AT&T gives loyal customers free Femtocell
The femtocell caused a great deal of excitement when the technology was first announced a couple of years ago. These boxes use your broadband connection to boost the signal for your 3G mobile phone and can be a godsend in those areas where the phone signal just isn’t up to scratch. Now Engadget are reportingthat [...]
How To Send Large Files To Friends
You sometimes may need to send large files to friends, colleagues or other people on the Internet. Think about photos of the last party that you want to share with someone, or a new music album, video, document or application. Email is the obvious choice for many, mainly because everyone has an email client (be [...]
Xfce Window Manager Tweaks
Lately I have been focusing on the desktop environment Xfce. NOTE: You can see all the Ghacks Xfce content here. Why have I been focusing on Xfce? It’s a very light weight desktop that you will find much faster than other Linux DEs and it’s come a long way in terms of usability and incorporating [...]
How To Configure Windows Live Sync
People with multiple computer systems sometimes need to exchange data between the computers, and sometimes they need to make sure that the same data set is available on all machines. This is for instance true for emails, calendar events or local copies of websites if the person is a web developer. Syncing refers to the [...]
Use Twitter Directly From The Firefox Address Bar
Twitter is a hugely popular messaging service that allows anyone to post messages, followers automatically see the messages in their accounts and everyone else might stumble upon them by searching Twitter messages. The standard procedure to post a new message is to open the Twitter website, log into the account and enter the text of [...]
4K Videos Coming To Youtube
Youtube is raising the bar once again with the announcement that the video hosting site will support 4K videos in the near future. Less than a year ago Youtube enabled full HD, 1080p, video resolutions on Youtube and most people thought that 1080p was going to be the top resolution on Youtube for a long [...]
Breaking: Watch Hulu From Outside The United States
The only real constantly working option to watch Hulu movies and TV shows from outside the United States was to use a virtual private network (vpn) connection. Today Reddit user 200iso discovered a way to watch Hulu from everywhere. All that is needed is the Firefox web browser, the firefox add-on Modify Headers and some [...]