Many occupations require individuals to take recordings of meetings and interviews to review later. Those notes are eventually transcribed, but that process can be a long and difficult one. It seems as if there really should be a program that might make that task a little easier – and there is. Listen N Write is [...]
Fix Game Connection Problems When Playing Online
With today’s technologies it is a lot easier – usually – to play games in a multiplayer environment. It does not really matter if you play the games on a local area network or over the Internet. Many games work out of the box, thanks to intelligent firewalls and systems that allow the traffic to [...]
Old-Fashioned Program “Spartan” Helps Capitalize on the Clipboard
Some of us do a lot of copying and pasting during an average day, and from time to time the standard Windows clipboard simply does not cut it. Whether you need to go back and access an item from quite a bit ago, want to save clipboard items for later, or simply want to view [...]
What will Office 365 Mean for Microsoft, Google and Us?
Next Tuesday Microsoft officially launches its Office 365 product. This product, which was expected for several years before any official announcement came, is the company’s new subscription service for business. In short it takes the IT department into the cloud with email, calendaring, exchange, Office, Sharepoint intranet services, Messenger and their new Lync communications suite [...]
Game Saturday: Knights of War
I think it was Defender of the Crown that got me interested into turn based strategy computer games. It quickly became a passion with releases of excellent games such as Shining Force, Panzer General, Warlords or Heroes of Might and Magic. Knights of War is a free turn based strategy game that combines the premise [...]
4 Handy Uses for IrfanView (Besides Image Viewing)
IrfanView is a popular image viewer capable of opening a wide array of common and rare file types. It has an array of features that make it useful in this function, but also in related tasks. Not only can you use it as a simple image viewer, but also as a wallpaper manager, wallpaper changer, [...]
Reload All Firefox Favicons With FavIcon Reloader
Favicons are little icons that can be used to identify websites. These icons are for instance displayed in the tabbar, for each opened tab one, and in the bookmarks folder. Firefox adds the icons to both locations automatically. It can however happen that imported bookmarks are imported without favicons. There is no option to retrieve [...]
Make a Hidden Windows Dropbox Folder
Ever since the days of DOS, every directory has a special folder in it named “nul”. You can use this to create a folder that will sync in Linux but not in Windows. This is because the folder can exist on Linux but not on Windows. The Nul Folder The nul folder is designed to [...]
Friday Giveaway: BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate
We did not have lots of giveaways ever since the last Ghacks Christmas Giveaway ended with satisfied software companies and many happy winners of commercial software licenses. This changes today with a great giveaway. We were able to get unlimited licenses for the DVD disc backup and ripper BDLot DVD Clone Ultimate. More about the [...]