The planned removal of Drive Extender in the upcoming version of Windows Server is the number one complaint of existing Windows Server users. The decision to remove Drive Extender seems final, and third party developers have started to develop alternatives. Drive Bender is such an alternative. The program is currently available as a beta, and [...]
Use gvim for a better vi experience
If you edit configuration files by hand, or if you prefer a more “manual” approach to the process of writing, you most likely use a text editor. Of the available editors there exists everything from bare-bones, no frills editors all the way to highly complex feature-abundant editors (and everything in between). One of those editors [...]
Mozilla Also Experimenting With Url Bar-less Designs
Mike recently wrote a piece on Google’s idea to kill the Google Chrome url bar in order to save up more space for websites and web applications (see Will Google Kill the URL Bar in Chrome?). It appears that Google is not the only company that experiments in that direction. Mozilla’s Paul Rouget published a [...]
Bookmarklets For Annoyances On The Internet
The Internet is full of annoyances. That does not mean that you encounter them on every website you visit, but chance is relatively high that you stumble upon sites regularly that have features that you find annoying. This starts with pretty basic annoyances, blinking text for instance or background music which are thankfully more or [...]
LastPass Fixes XSS Vulnerability, Improves Security
Ghacks regulars know that I’m a big supporter of the free cloud based password manager LastPass. The program is available for popular web browsers and mobile devices, and offers many comfortable password and login related features. This includes online password management, one-click log ins, user profiles to fill out forms faster, a secure password generator [...]
Scriptish, Promises Better Firefox 4 Userscript Support, Performance
Firefox 4 users who want to work with userscripts, small JavaScript programs that change a website’s functionality or add features to it, can install the very popular Greasemonkey extension, or the lesser known Scriptish. Scriptish promises several advantages over Greasemonkey, among them a better performance, upgradable user scripts, introduction of functions that are only supported [...]
Radbox, Save Online Videos To Watch Them Later
Have you experienced the following situation? You just received an email or message from a friend that contained a link to a funny must see video. Problem is, you do not have time to watch it right now. What do you do? Most users wait until they have the time, some may even bookmark the [...]
Gmail Resets 150,000+ Email Accounts, Loses Everything
If you can’t log into your Gmail account this morning it could be because engineers at Google are trying to recover all your emails that they accidentally deleted last night. Some estimates say that as many as half a million Gmail users have had their inboxes wiped as a software bug has reset some accounts. [...]
4chan Downloader Saves All Thread Images Automatically
4chan regulars, who like the site because of its vast pool of images that get uploaded to the website every minute, often utilize software or extensions to download images automatically, or at least semi-automatically from the popular Internet message board. 4chan Downloader is on first glance just another tool for the job. The program takes [...]