Most Firefox users probably experience some kind of problems with the web browser eventually. While most of them can be fixed easily, some appear to be resistant to troubleshooting. Profile Cleaner is a new Firefox add-on that offers to be a last resort for some of those situations. The Firefox profile contains various files that [...]
Fix: Cannot Delete File, The File Name You Specified Is Invalid Or Too Long
Files or folders can sometimes not be deleted because of file name restrictions in Windows. See, Windows supports file names of up to 255 characters, which includes the directory path. If a directory or file surpasses that limit it cannot be deleted. Many users at this moment assume a corrupt file on the hard drive [...]
Update KDE to 4.5 and experience true improvement
For the longest time I have shrugged off KDE 4 because of poor performance. But since 4.4 I have noticed a rather vast leap of the improvement chasm. Now, 4.5 is out and the leap went lunar! That’s right, KDE has finally reached a level of usability and performance that rivals any of its competition [...]
Open Firefox Links In Other Web Browsers
Some Firefox users may want to open links sporadically in other web browsers. That’s for instance helpful if they know that the link destination will not display correctly in Firefox, if they want to make use of functionality that another browser offers, or if they want to test how a website displays in another Internet [...]
Add Custom Items To Windows Explorer Context Menu
Windows Explorer is the core file browser in Windows. People use it every day for file operations like opening, deleting or editing files. A question came up yesterday in the system wide website shortcuts article, that I would like to address today. Jojo asked if it is possible to open Internet shortcuts with another browser [...]
How To Configure System Wide Website Shortcuts In Windows
Many Windows users do not know that the operating system offers a flexible shortcut system to start programs but also open websites directly with the keyboard. Those who do often make use of those shortcuts to improve their workflow. One option that may come in handy is the configuration of website shortcuts, to launch websites [...]
Blackberry in trouble again, this time with India
Blackberry makers Research in Motion (RIM) are in trouble again, this time with India, after squabbles with the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Algeria, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia over government access to its data servers. All data that is sent and received on Blackberry’s, wherever they are in the world, is processed by the company’s servers in [...]
Backup your Linux desktop with Simple Backup
There are tons of possible backup solutions for the Linux desktop (and/or server). I have covered a number of possible solutions here on Ghacks. One of my favorite (and the one I use most often) is Luckybackup (see my article “Luckybackup: Linux backup made easy“), but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of really good [...]
FileKiller, Secure File Deletion Software
If you are a Ghacks regular you know that deleting files the standard way in Windows does not really remove their contents from the hard drive their have been stored on. Windows merely removes the file information and enables the storage space of the file for writing. With time, other data uses that space so [...]