Most Windows users know that they can display thumbnails of a few popular image formats right in Windows Explorer. Supported are previews of popular image formats such as jpg or png. Sometimes though, even that support is not working properly. I see no thumbnail previews at all on my 64-bit copy of Windows 7 for [...]
Winflushprintjobs, Restart Jammed Print Jobs
In How To Deal With Stuck Print Jobs I explained how Windows users can recover from jammed print jobs manually either from the command line, by batch script or by restarting the Print Spooler service. Sometimes print jobs get jammed and cannot be removed from the print queue anymore. Even worse, they block all other [...]
Facebook spammer turns himself in to the FBI
A US man who sent more than 27 million spam to Facebook users has turned himself in to FBI officers in California after being put on their wanted list. Sanford Wallace, from Las Vegas developed a program that was able to circumvent Facebook’s spam filters. The software then lured over 500,000 people to hand over [...]
Ghacks July 2011 Best Of
July 2011 was the first month were I realized that it has become incredibly difficulty to keep track of browser releases from the top four or five developers. I could not possibly write about every beta, aurora, nightly, dev, canary or snapshot build out there and made the decision to reduce the coverage to the [...]
SuprSetr
Hobby and professional photographers often work with photo sets, and Flickr’s option to create sets aids them in the creation, management and organization of photo sets. Managing a large number of sets on Flickr is on the other hand not the most comfortable thing to do. That’s where the free cross-platform Java application SuprSetr steps [...]
150 Google Plus Invites
Google has revamped the invite system for Google+. All Google Plus users can now invite 150 new users to the social networking system in a easier more straightforward method. Google Plus users find a Send invitations – 150 left button on the right sidebar of their Google Plus stream page. A click on Invite Friends [...]
Hurrican, Turrican Remake For The PC [Game Saturday]
Turrican was one of those games that made a huge impact when it came out. Originally developed and released for the Commodore 64, it was later on ported to various other systems including the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and game consoles. Several factors played an important role in the game’s success. First it was the [...]
Happy 20th Birthday, World-Wide-Web
The world wide web, the brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee is 20 years old today. The worldwide web isn’t to be confused with the Internet, even though they’re commonly considered the same thing. The Internet, which is the physical infrastructure of servers and the protocols that enable them to interconnect has been around for much longer. [...]
NoDupe, Fast, Versatile Duplicate File Finder
Finding duplicate files on your Windows PC does not have to be an hour long marathon of searching, comparing and finding anymore. With NoDupe, it is almost to easy to find the duplicate files on your system. When you first start the application you will notice the minimalistic interface. Users who just want to start [...]