How To Enable Flash In Firefox Portable
The portable version of Firefox comes with no plugins preinstalled, and while it may make use of system wide plugins, it can still be that some necessary plugin
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The KDE 4.5 Notification Area
With KDE 4.
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Facebook Places, New Location Based Service
Facebook has been working on a location based service for quite some time now.
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Spoon Adds Browser Sandbox, To Desktop Apps Web Launcher
Spoon offers a web service for Windows users that allows them to run desktop applications directly in the web browser, without prior downloads or installations.
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Chrome OS Tablet coming from Google and Verizon in November
Google's new Chrome OS cloud-based operating system is about to make its first appearance, not on netbooks, as was first thought, but on tablet devices instead.
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Open Multiple Locations In Firefox At Once
Firefox users have several options if they want to open multiple links in the web browser at once.
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4Chan Thread Downloader
Hate it or love it.
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The KDE 4.5 Semantic Desktop
My last article I spoke about the new KDE Activities features Search and Launch Containment Activity (see my article "Using the KDE 4.
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Enable One View Mode For All Folders In Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer in Vista and Windows 7 makes use of different folder templates to present the files and folders to the user.
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NotScript Brings NoScript Functionality To Google Chrome
Update: NotScript is no longer available.
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Tweak Auto Post, Desktop App To Schedule Twitter Posts
Most users of the popular messaging platform Twitter use the website to post their messages.
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The Crab, Semi-Automatic Music Collection Tagger
Taking good care of a digital music collection can add to the listening experience.
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PointNLaunch, Mouse Application Launcher
PointNLaunch adds application launching options to the Windows operating system to launch certain programs quickly using it.
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Using the KDE 4.5 Search and Launch Containment Activity
In my last post ("KDE Desktop Activities explained") I set out to help you understand just what KDE Desktop Activities are.
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Enable Internet Search In Windows Start Menu Search Box
The search box in the Windows start menu can only be used to find files on the local computer system or connected network drives by default.
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Firefox Profile Preferences Cleaner
One thing that bothers me a lot in Firefox is how add-on uninstallations are handled.
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How To Create Sitemaps For Static HTML Websites
So called sitemaps are files that contain information about a website's structure.
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KDE Desktop Activities explained
With the release of KDE 4 a new feature was added that, at first, seemed to be more confusing than anything else.
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Manage Google Docs From The Desktop, with iGoSyncDocs
A desktop software to manage Google Docs documents sometimes offers advantages that the in-browser web version does not offer.
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ClipUpload, Semi-Automates Uploading Clipboard Data
ClipUpload is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to upload whatever is stored in the clipboard to various services or servers.
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Facebook 'dislike' scam
Many users of the social networking site Facebook have long been asking for a dislike button and now it looks like they've got what they were asking for.
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NZB Newsgroups Downloader, HelloNzb
So called nzb files have been created to make the downloading of files from the Usenet (often referred to as newsgroups which is technically not correct) easier
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Switch Between HTML And Plain Text Emails In Thunderbird
Emails can be composed as HTML or plain text messages.
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Firefox Profile Cleaner
Most Firefox users experience problems with the web browser eventually.
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Fix: Cannot Delete File, The File Name You Specified Is Invalid Or Too Long
Files or folders can sometimes not be deleted because of file name restrictions in Windows.
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Update KDE to 4.5 and experience true improvement
For the longest time I have shrugged off KDE 4 because of poor performance.
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Open Firefox Links In Other Web Browsers
Some Firefox users may want to open links sporadically in other web browsers.
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Add Custom Items To Windows Explorer Context Menu
Windows Explorer is the core file browser in Windows.
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How To Configure System Wide Website Shortcuts In Windows
Many Windows users do not know that the operating system offers a flexible shortcut system to start programs but also open websites directly with the keyboard.
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Blackberry in trouble again, this time with India
Blackberry makers Research in Motion (RIM) are in trouble again, this time with India, after squabbles with the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Algeria, KuwaitÂ
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Backup your Linux desktop with Simple Backup
There are tons of possible backup solutions for the Linux desktop (and/or server).
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FileKiller: Secure File Deletion Software
If you are a Ghacks regular you know that deleting files the standard way in Windows does not really remove their contents from the hard drive their have been s
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System Update Readiness Tool For Vista
I spend most of the day yesterday preparing a notebook with Windows Vista installed to hand it over to a family member today.
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Firefox Tab Sets, What They Do
You may have heard about a new feature called Tab Sets that has been integrated into the latest developer version of the Firefox web browser.
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Google Chrome Gets Click To Play
Regular readers know that I consider the Firefox NoScript add-on invaluable for security and bandwidth preserving purposes.
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Top Google Chrome Shopping Extensions
Shopping on the Internet offers many advantages over local shopping.
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Sync your Evolution contacts with UbuntuOne
How many machines do you have? How many contacts do you have? How many machines do you try to keep your contacts in sync on? There are a lot of ways to [&hellip
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File Recovery Software Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier 5 Released
Many computer users eventually come in the situation that they encounter damaged or corrupt files on their hard drives, other storage devices, CDs or DVDs.
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Check Restrictions On Any Windows PC
Do you want to know what you can and cannot do on a Windows PC? The question may not come up while working on your own PC, but what about public computers, [&he
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Vista Switcher, Better Windows Alt-Tab Management
I sometimes have the feeling that I have written about a specific software, but when I try to find the article the search ends up empty.
