Nautilus is one versatile file manager. The ability to add actions (with the help of Nautilus Actions) makes Nautils’ ability seemingly endless. I have covered adding actions to Nautilus before (see my article “Add actions to extend Nautilus functionality“). That article covered an earlier version of Nautilus Actions. Now that this tool has matured quite [...]
Radeon Pro, Create Profiles For PC Games
PC gamers often have to configure technical settings for PC games that they want to play. They have to configure the right resolution, refresh rate and quality settings for the perfect gaming experience. To make matters worse, some of the latest games may not run in the highest resolutions or settings, simply because of the [...]
How To Check Delicious Bookmarks For Broken Links
The popular bookmarking service Delicious has been in business for several years. In that time, features have changed and the service even moved from its old domain del.icio.us to delicious.com. At least one major feature has been missing ever since the service was created, despite the changes that have been introduced throughout the years. It [...]
Google: Apple is not our main competitor
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, discussed how and who Google now needs to compete against and it’s clear that the foundation of the company, search, is still its main focus going forward. In the interview, Schmidt described Microsoft’s search engine as their main competitor, [...]
Duplicate File Hard Linker
Users have several options to deal with duplicate files. They can run duplicate file finders to find and delete them, handle duplication issues manually or, delete the duplicate files and replace them with hard links so that the operating system and software can still access the files in every location they had been stored in. [...]
Outlook Blocked Attachment Unlocker
Microsoft’s popular desktop email client Outlook blocks specific attachments by default, in order to increase the security of the system. File attachments with extensions such as exe or reg will be blocked by the email program to avoid unnecessary dangers to the system. This sometimes however blocks legit file attachments from being accessible after they [...]
Acronis Drive Monitor, Monitor Hard Drives For Critical Events
Keeping an eye on the hard drives of a computer system ensures to receive notifications about imminent drive errors or other critical events that may affect the data on those devices. Modern hard drives usually support the SMART technology, which software can use to display information about a drive’s health. Acronis Drive Monitor is a [...]
QuickDrag, Speed Up Firefox Actions With Drag And Drop
The Firefox web browser offers a variety of add-ons that can speed up specific actions in the browser. Actions in this case mean everything that requires manual interaction, like searching for text in a specific search engine, saving an image on a page or loading an url that is not linked properly on the page. [...]
Merge, split, and watermark your PDFs with PDF Chain
Say you have two PDF documents and you want to merge them into one. Or say you have one long PDF document and you want to split it into sections. Or what if you want to add a watermark What do you do? If you’re really up on your PDF Toolkit commands you could easily [...]