gHacks technology news » freeware genius http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Appnews Stats After A Week http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/06/appnews-stats-after-a-week/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/06/appnews-stats-after-a-week/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 19:19:40 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/06/appnews-stats-after-a-week/ appnews125We have started Appnews, a software update service, about a week ago and Rarst was so nice to compile a few stats after the first seven days of service. If you have not heard about Appnews before you might want to check out the introductory posts at Ghacks, Rarst and Freeware Genius to get an idea of what it is about. It is basically a service that keeps track of software updates. The software is limited to programs that have been reviewed on at least one of the blogs and links to those reviews are included.

One could say it’s an software update tracker that tracks all the good free software of this world. The first week saw a nice start of the service although there has not been much coverage besides the initial three blog posts linked above. The RSS feed subscriber count is scratching at 1000 subscribers. The 50 Twitter followers would bring the total count above the 1k mark which is great for such a young service.

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I have added the RSS feed to the sidebar here at Ghacks which will from now on display the five latest software updates that directly link to the software developer sites. If you have not already subscribed to the Appnews feed I suggest you do so as it will keep you up to date with software developments of great programs that have been covered at our sites.

We are still collecting ideas on how to proceed from here. Some suggestions are offering a widget for websites to include, a directory of programs that are monitored and the inclusion of additional websites that provide the same expertise and quality in their free software reviews.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/06/appnews-stats-after-a-week/feed/ 2 Alt Drag Windows Moving Made Easier http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/13/alt-drag-windows-moving-made-easier/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/13/alt-drag-windows-moving-made-easier/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:02:11 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8256 If you want to move a window in a Windows operating system you need to left-click on the title bar and drag it to the desired location. A left-click anywhere else will not have the desired effect. Alt Drag which my good old buddy Samer recently reviewed at his excellent Freeware Genius blog makes moving windows a tad easier.

As the name suggests it makes use of the ALT key. Whenever that key is pressed windows can be moved by pressing the left mouse button anywhere in it. This will save some miles of mouse movement per month for many users.

Alt Drag comes with the additional feature to snap a selected window to the screen borders or visible windows on the desktop to make better use of the screen estate.

The software itself is portable and supplied in 7z format unfortunately. You need to find an unpacker that is able to unpack the 7z format. The functionality becomes available as soon as the application is started.

The program icon is located in the System Tray. Alt Drag used about 3 Megabytes of computer memory and 1 Megabyte of virtual memory on a Windows XP SP3 test system. Those are pretty good values for a handy application like this.

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