If you run a low resolution monitor, use a laptop or other mobile device you know that screen estate is of premium value. This is actually the main reason why browser developers like Google or Mozilla try to reduce the interface elements of the browser. If you run a 24″ monitor you won’t notice a [...]
Chinese Teenager Sells his Kidney for an iPhone
Nope, this isn’t a fake story from the cover of the National Enquirer, it’s a real story about how Chinese teenager Xiao Zheng, has sold one of his kidneys through a broker for the Yuan 20,000 needed to buy an iPhone and an iPad 2. The report on Yahoo! News says that the teenager, who lives [...]
Ghacks May 2011 Best Of
Another month has passed and it is time for the monthly overview of my personal selection of the best articles that have been published on Ghacks in that month. I have made the decision to limit the article links to 25 links tops. This forces me to make a better selection and ensures that only [...]
Apple To Patent Anti Piracy Technology
Have you ever seen people at concerts holding an iPhone up in the air, trying to record the live performance (and probably uploading it somewhere later on as well)? But they usually don’t know that the moment they do that, they are infringing on IP copyright law. Piracy is punishable by law, even if it [...]
Enable Readability Statistics In Microsoft Word
Sometimes when you write an article, review or letter you need to take into consideration the age and education of the reader. Your choice of words and sentence structure should reflect the audience. Your five year old nephew will thank you for it, as will the professors on your college. But how do you know [...]
Windows 8 Video Demonstration At Computex 2011
The first Windows 8 video, that Microsoft posted on June 2 on YouTube, offered a sneak peek of the touch interface of the upcoming Microsoft operating system. It caused quite the confusion, as many viewers assumed that the operating system would look like that on their desktop PC as well. From what we could gather, [...]
Integrate the Terminal with the Desktop On Linux
Over the years there have been all sorts of fun ways to edit one’s Linux terminal window. In addition to editing all the boring old things like text color and scroll settings, people have edited their headers, terminal behaviors, and even integrated an entire terminal window into their background. Many people are fond of that [...]
Smart Mobile Working Since 1986
I’ve got a keen interest in smartphones and tablets. I think they’re just both so brilliant for what you can do with them. For instance, being able to store spreadsheets and important documents in the cloud and update them on my phone is just amazing, and being able to use custom apps on a device [...]
Pushover [Game Saturday]
Push-Over was a platform puzzle type of game in the early Nineties. I cannot remember a lot about it but the fact that you seem to have played an ant and that I played it on the Commodore Amiga 500. The game combined aspects of a platform game with puzzle elements. Dominoes are placed on [...]