Hi there ghacks readers! It’s mouser from DonationCoder.com speaking to you here. Martin has graciously invited me to make a guest post on ghacks about the latest event on the DonationCoder site, and I’m thrilled to be able to speak directly to the vast ghacks empire :) Today we posted the results of our annual [...]
Youtube Music Player For Firefox
One of the best options on today’s Internet to listen to a song, any song for that matter, is to search for that song on Youtube. Chance is there is at least one video with that song on the video portal. Some web users use Youtube more or less exclusively to listen to music. The [...]
Create and join VPN networks on your Linux machine with Hamachi
If you are looking for a VPN solution for your Linux machine or network you have more than likely examined such solutions as OpenVPN. Many of the Linux VPN solutions require complex, time consuming set ups that can drive the new user crazy. Fortunately there are other solutions that do not require extensive knowledge of [...]
Chromium Updater Overview
Chromium basically is the Open Source part of the Google Chrome browser. It is a standalone browser that runs very well on its own, and some users prefer to use it for a variety of reasons. To name some: It gets updates first before they are added to the three Google Browser variants dev, beta [...]
GBoost, Improve PC Performance While Gaming
When you are running high-end applications like games that benefit from every bit of extra computing power and memory they can get you may want to reduce the background processes and services to a minimum so that additional resources become available. Quite a few PC boosting applications have been released in the recent past, among [...]
Windows 7 Taskbar Tweaker, Modify Taskbar Behavior
7 Taskbar Tweaker was one of the first applications that came out to tweak Windows 7′s new taskbar. I reviewed the application back in November 2009. The developer has continuously improved the software since that first release which becomes immediately clear if you compare the screenshot of the first release with the new version that [...]
Windows Optimizer 7plus Updated, Now With 64-bit, Unicode Support
The number of applications that add native 64-bit support is on the rise. Yesterday we featured the memory optimizer Minimem and today it is the Windows optimizer 7plus which was released in a new version supporting 64-bit systems. 7plus adds many features to Windows that improve the workflow on the system. This ranges from adding [...]
Global Spam Levels in Mysterious Month-on-Month Fall
It’s been reported that the total volume of global spam email that is being sent has fallen, month-on-month since the beginning of August 2010 and nobody knows why. The fall, which you can see in the graph below, shows a steady decline from almost a quarter of a trillion messages every day to just 50 [...]
Minimem 2.0 Beta Arrives, Adds 64-bit Support
The memory management software Minimem was initially developed to limit the memory consumption of the Firefox web browser. The application was designed to keep Firefox’s memory hunger in line by “removing as many non-necessary memory pages as possible” from the Firefox process. The application since then has evolved and is now capable of managing all [...]