One nice feature of the Opera browser is the ability to press the space key at the bottom of a web page to load the next page of a website. This works well in Google Search and other search engines, blogs and a lot of other websites and services that display navigational links at the [...]
Opera Snap Links, Another Useful Extension Ported
The introduction of extensions in Opera 11 and the release of Opera 11 final has seen an increase in third party development for the web browser. Popular browser extensions, like the Last Pass password manager, have already found their way to the Opera browser. The latest port of a useful add-on is called Snap Links [...]
Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks
The Wikileaks story rumbles on as we near the end of 2010 and the latest company to withdraw its support is the Bank of America. This follows on from other financial institutions including a Swiss bank, Mastercard and PayPal. The reason the bank gave for refusing to handle payments from the controversial website was that [...]
IBVPN Review And Giveaway [Ghacks Christmas Giveaway]
Computers connecting to the Internet do so with an IP address which is provided dynamically or statically by the Internet Service Provider (ISP). That IP address can be used by websites and services to identify a user’s location in the world, which in turn means that they can find out about the user’s ISP as [...]
Create an ssh key with Seahorse
Seahorse is a very powerful tool for the creation and managing of various keys. Seahorse is the default keyring manager for the GNOME desktop. I have covered Seahorse here on Ghacks before (see “Create, sign, and publish your PGP keys with Seahorse“), but one aspect I didn’t cover was the use of Seahorse for secure [...]
Chrome Window Expander For YouTube
Chance is that your visit the popular video hosting site Youtube with different window sizes of the browser. Some users may always visit it maximized but the majority is probably visiting it with different window sizes. The problem here? Well, Youtube is not automatically expanding the video. It still displays that meager video frame even [...]
How To Remove Elements From Google Chrome’s New Tab Page
The new tab page of the Chrome browser does not display a white page, but links to features or modules of the web browser. It will for instance list the most visited websites, the recently closed websites, the new Google Chrome Apps web store and apps that have been installed from it as well as [...]
Software Engineer Accidentally Shuts Down Facebook
Social networking site Facebook was offline for half an hour yesterday due to an error by a software engineer at the company as reported by the BBC. The engineer accidentally put internal prototype pages online, including a revamped photos section and new page management features, and the entire website had to be taken offline while [...]
Download Manager Tweak Improves Firefox’s Downloading Capabilities
The default Firefox download manager is not really the most comfortable program module to work with. It is for instance not possible to directly see the download url of a file that is in the download manager. Sure, a right-click and the selection of Copy Download Link from the context menu adds that information to [...]