It can sometimes be very handy to have an USB drive filled with self-booting troubleshooting tools in reach. Creation used to be difficulty, especially if you wanted to add more than one tool to a drive. This changes with the release of the multiboot USB creator YUMI. The free portable software for Windows offers the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Looking For A Portable Audio Converter? Try FlicFlac
When you download music from the Internet, you may sometimes download file formats that your default audio player, mobile phone or mp3 player does not support. Maybe it is a Flac, Ogg or Ape file, audio files that are not that commonly supported. If you are lucky the site that you have downloaded the music [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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RunAsDate, Run Programs With A Different System Date, Time
You may know that I’m using the MSI Afterburner software to record game videos on my PC. The software has been in beta for quite some time. One issue I experienced is that the beta versions have fixed expiration dates, which means that they expire at a given point in time. While this is usually [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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TED Downloader
I have covered TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, before here on Ghacks. TED is about sharing ideas on stage with an audience and on the Internet. When you look at the list of speakers, you will notice that it ranges from everyday people fighting for a cause to book authors and celebrities [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
PointerStick, Turn Your Cursor Into a Stick For Presentations
When you are holding presentations on a big screen with a computer mouse you know that it may be quite difficulty to follow the mouse cursor around. That’s fine if you have presentation software that gives you the tools at hand to highlight areas or write on the screen. If you are stuck with the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Flickr Photo Downloader, Download Public Flickr Photos In Bulk
I have reviewed quite a few programs to download photos from Flickr in the past. From Flickr Download and Flickr Downloadr to Flickr Mass Downloader and the more recent Flickr Mass Downloader. All tools have in common that they can be used to download public photos that are hosted on Flickr. They differ in handling [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Add Snow To Your Desktop With DesktopSnowOk
While I’m personally not a huge fan of anything animated on my desktop, I know quite a few people who love some level of activity on their desktop. When it comes to Christmas some users like to decorate their computer desktop much like they decorate the rest of their house and property. Th next best [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Last.FM, Aupeo & Vkontakte.ru Downloader
Internet users have lots of options when it comes to listening to music on the Internet. They can tune into Internet radio stations, visit free music repositories like Jamendo, find new and rare songs on YouTube and other music portals or visit music information portals like Last.fm to listen to music. Music downloading is often [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Internet Explorer Expired Cookies Cleaner
Cookies, those small data files that can do good (saving preferences or session information) or bad (tracking), have all an expiration date. The expiration date is set by the webmaster of each visited website and can range from seconds or minutes to years. Cookies will expire eventually and when they do they cannot be used [...]