As people are using PCs for many more things at home and the computer itself has become, in a few cases, an objet d’art in the case of some all-in-one devices companies are putting much more effort into peripherals. In this review I want to look at two of these high-end devices, Logitech’s illuminated keyboards. Let’s start [...]
Streets of Rage Remake [Game Saturday]
I have decided to bring back game reviews here at Ghacks by reviewing one, free game, every Saturday. I call it Game Saturday and it begins with a classic. The Streets of Rage series was extremely successful on the Sega Genesis. Sega released a total of three parts and ported it to other systems over [...]
Thunderbird Send Later, Schedule Emails
Sometimes you may want to send an email at a later time, maybe because you want someone to receive it a specific time and not earlier, or because you want to avoid mail server overload. The Thunderbird email client does not offer email scheduling options and it requires manual workaround to send out emails at [...]
YouTube Goes Live!
It’s been on the cards for a couple of years now but today YouTube has launched its new Live service. New live streaming video can be found at www.youtube.com/live and they follow several tests that included high-profile concerts and events. This now puts YouTube, which already gets around 2 billion video views every day, up against [...]
Windows 8 To Feature SmartScreen Filter Protection
SmartScreen Filter is a security module of Internet Explorer and other Microsoft applications that protects users from opening malicious websites or downloading malicious files. A recent screenshot of the folder options of a Windows 8 development build demonstrates Microsoft’s intention to include the filtering in their upcoming operating system. This appears to be a sound [...]
Firefox Download Scheduler
It can sometimes be helpful to schedule downloads, for instance if you need the bandwidth for other work related tasks at the moment to avoid bottlenecks during that time. It is not really possible to schedule downloads in Firefox, at least not without the help of extensions or external programs. Firefox users have basically two [...]
Download SoundCloud Music With Soundcloud Super UserScript
SoundCloud users and visitors can only download some of the music offered at the popular audio hosting service. Just enter a song name or part of a name in the search form on the main SoundCloud page to get a list of results that match the query. All songs can be played right away on [...]
Facebook Open Compute Project
Building and using efficient computing infrastructures is one of the goals of many successful Internet companies. Small improvements in efficiency can have huge effects on the running costs, let alone the company’s image as a “green” company. Facebook has been working on their next generation data center for over a year, and managed to improve [...]
Connect remotely from Linux with Terminal Server Client
I do a lot of remote work throughout the day and to make those connections I use different tools. Between LogMeIn and TeamViewer I have remote support covered. But when I need to connect to a machine such as a Terminal Server, where do I turn? Generally speaking I turn to the Linux tool Terminal [...]