When you are trying to customize Microsoft’s latest web browser Internet Explorer 9 you are limited by the configuration options, called Internet Options in the browser. Those options have not really changed a lot since the release of Internet Explorer 6. Users who wanted to tweak and modify other elements of the browser had to [...]
Mozilla Drops Http Prefix In Firefox
Opera and Google are already doing it, so why should not we. That’s probably the reasoning behind Mozilla’s latest move to optimize the interface of the Firefox web browser. For those who do not know (is there anyone reading my blog that does not?); The http prefix in front of website addresses in the url [...]
How To Merge Mp3, Wav With Audacity
I’m slowly getting the hang out of the video editing software VirtualDub. I recently ran into troubles with music for a video. The video had a playtime of 14 minutes which meant that I had to merge multiple audio files to reach that playing time. I first tried my luck by merging mp3 files and [...]
How To Take A Series Of Screenshots Automatically
It is super easy to take a single screenshot or video, for instance for a blog post, tutorial or presentation. It gets a little bit complicated when you want to take multiple screenshots of a process. Taking those screenshots manually is not really an option, as it would break the workflow regularly. You could do [...]
How To Remove Black Bars On YouTube Videos
I have been dabbling in the video recording, editing and publishing field lately. One of the latest things that I had to get my head around was a black bar problem on YouTube. Depending on the original video that you upload, you may see black bars horizontally or vertically. That’s pretty bad for the viewing [...]
How To Change A Video’s Speed With VirtualDub
In the past weeks, I have started to work with the video editing software VirtualDub to prepare videos before uploading them to the video hosting site YouTube. I learned a lot in that time, and have already passed some of that knowledge on in form of guides here on Ghacks. I have written guides about [...]
More Mango Features Emerge
As we get closer to the official release of the first major update for Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, more details of features are emerging, and some of them are looking extremely useful indeed. The expanded features list comes courtesy of WPSauce.com and includes… AppChecker – a feature that will find appropriate applications in the marketplace [...]
Pulse, Change Windows Desktop Backgrounds Automatically
If you are looking for a bit of variety when it comes to your system’s desktop backgrounds, you have lots of choices. If you run Windows 7, you can simply install a theme with multiple wallpaper images. Alternatives are so called wallpaper changers that either pull wallpapers from local storage devices or the Internet. Some [...]
Free MP3 Music for Gamers
Over Clocked Remix is a community driven website that provides a place for anyone to upload remixes of their favorite video game music. Music can be downloaded for free from a number of mirrors, but there are several legal torrents that can be used too. Many of the songs are from classic games, so even [...]