If you are a user of a Linux distribution that takes advantage of Launchpad’s Personal Package Archive, then you know how easy that tool can be for adding those hard to find applications pre-packaged for your system. Once you get used to PPAs, it’s fairly easy to depend upon those repositories. But there is sometimes [...]
UMPlayer, Mplayer Fork With Interesting Features
I have reviewed several video players in the past that use MPlayer as a core component. This includes my favorite video player SMPlayer but also KMPlayer (just received an update to version 3) or MPlayer WW. UMplayer is another MPlayer fork with some interesting new features that you won’t find in the other players. I [...]
Windows 7 Troubleshooting Webcasts
It’s been a busy time for me here as I’ve recently been doing a series of webcasts and lectures and I thought I’d share some of these with you here. They’re all completely free and residing on YouTube. I also thought I’d share with you a couple of photos from my most recent seminar, at [...]
Google Experimental Search Explained
Did you know that Google has a labs-like feature for Google Search? Labs-like feature, what was that again? The Google Chrome browser, Google Mail and other Google products offer experimental features to all users. Google is sometimes unsure if a feature should be fully integrated into their product, which is why they are offering them [...]
JStock, Free Stock Market Software
About a month ago I made the decision to invest some of my money in the stock market. I started reading several books that taught me the basics and used a watchlist for some time to get a feeling for the stock market and portfolio management. My decision was to start with a small amount [...]
NVIDIA Update, 3D Vision Controller, New NVIDIA Graphics Driver Components
NVIDIA has just published a new beta driver on their driver downloads website. The driver GEFORCE/ION DRIVER V270.51 is available for all supported operating systems and NVIDIA graphics card from GeForce 6 to the latest 500-series and ION desktop GPUs. The beta driver promises better PC games performance, especially Dragon Age 2 players will benefit [...]
FlipBook Printer Updated, Renamed To FlipSuite
Flipbook Printer was one of my first Donation Coder software reviews here on Ghacks. Mouser has released an update to the program which is now called FlipSuite. It is still available as a free version; A version for commercial use has been developed as well which offers the same feature set but can be used [...]
Google +1 Button, Social Sharing Similar To Facebook Like
Google just made an announcement on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they will start introducing a +1 button to Google Search and as a button for websites. Google +1 seems awfully similar to Facebook Like. It is a social sharing button that logged in Google users can click on to recommend a service, ad [...]
Set up a Linux VPN Server with Gadmin-VPN-Server
There are so many reasons why a VPN Server makes perfect sense. For one, anyone with the credentials and the address can then gain access to the internal network from an external source. This enables users to work remotely and still have access to resources they wouldn’t otherwise have access to. There are obviously plenty [...]