Gladinet Cloud Desktop integrates cloud storage as virtual storage on the computer system. The software combines the integration of cloud storage with backup and file synchronization options. Cloud Desktop supports many different cloud based storage services, from Google Docs and Google Apps over Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive to network resources, ftp servers and various Amazon [...]
How To Work With Multiple Spell Checking Dictionaries In Firefox
Firefox by default ships with a spell checking dictionary that matches the language version of the browser. If you download the Firefox US release you end up with the US-English dictionary for instance. This usually works out of the box but may be buggy at times. You can check Fix Firefox Spell Check Not Working [...]
Yuck! Windows 8 Explorer Gets Ribbon Interface
I have to admit that I do not like the ribbon interface that much. You can see it in action in Microsoft’s latest versions of Office, or Windows 7 applications like Paint or Wordpad. It is only a logical consequence that Microsoft is now moving from standard menus to a ribbon interface in Windows 8. [...]
A Brief Guide on Privacy Settings for Facebook
When it comes to social networking these days, privacy is of the utmost importance. Nowadays, the most popular social networking sites are Facebook and Twitter. If you use either of these websites for anything then it is important that you understand the privacy settings fully. If you do not then you are putting yourself at [...]
Opera Exclusive: Twitter Search And Notifier
Twitter: Love it, hate it. Even the biggest Twitter critics have to agree that the social messaging service must be doing something right. Yes, there is lots of automatic messaging going on and spam, lots of spam. But underneath that pile of junk, you find valuable information. New product and software releases for instance, or [...]
How To Search Multiple PDF Documents At Once
Most pdf readers provide you with a built-in search to find words or phrases in the active pdf document. But what if you want to search for a specific text or phrase in multiple documents? Sure, you could make use of Windows Search or another desktop search application to find what you are looking for; [...]
Ghacks March 2011 Best Of
I know I’m a day early with the guide to last month’s best articles. Every month I’m looking back at the articles that we have published here on Ghacks; I evaluate them, check some stats and post the most popular articles and a personal selection in a best of overview. I usually post the overview [...]
Windows Context Menu Manager
Getting Windows to start the right program on double-click can be quite the daunting task. Not that it is usually that difficulty to link a file extension to a default program, but sometimes, it just does not stick. For me, it is a month long problem with torrent files that display the open with dialog [...]
Internet Explorer Pinned Sites’ First Cool Feature: Hotmail New Message Count
Microsoft added the feature to pin websites in Internet Explorer 9. Users who run the Windows 7 operating system are currently the only ones who can make use of that option. You may recall that Windows 7 users can pin programs, files and other data to the Windows 7 taskbar for faster access, and a [...]