In my limited experience with newspapers, I got the sense that they are not the ones leading the technological revolution. Today I found out that The New York Times has just released […]
The latest installments of Windows Media Player add two context menu entries to select folders in Windows Explorer, Window's default file manager. The options that are added are "play with Windows Media […]
Down Tester is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows devices that you may use to test the download speed of an Internet connection. It is sometimes advisable to test the Internet […]
So far, in this series, we have taken a look at FluxBox, Window Maker, and Xfce 4. We've even examined adding a little eye candy to these old school window managers with […]
Microsoft SharedView has been designed to share an application or computer desktop with a small group of people. The only requirement for Microsoft SharedView is a Windows Live ID to start a […]
Aerofoil is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to extend the battery life by managing features that affect battery on the device. It is a well known fact that it is […]
WinSuperMaximize is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices that maximizes windows by moving the title part off-screen. A very handy feature for many users - especially those that have to cope […]
Acer Aspire One Fan Control is a program for Acer Aspire laptops that lets you control the speed of the built-in fan of the device. A friend recently contacted me and told […]
It has been a long time since I have last written about advertising opportunities. Mainly because of the lack of changes in the advertising setup here at Ghacks. Some things have changed […]
We reviewed the document viewer TextMaker Viewer 2009 a while ago. It was a program that could display the content of various document formats like the popular pdf, txt and doc formats […]
In my last post I instructed you how Adding dropshadows in Fluxbox with xcompmgr was easy to do.In this installment we are going to take this one step further and and transparencies […]
The same software developer who created the iTunes Playlist Exporter application, has created another useful third party tool for Apple's iTunes media manager. The software program is called iWatchSyncer; its main purpose […]
iExporter - iTunes playlist exporting is a free program for Microsoft Windows to export playlists from Apple's iTunes software. The popular music software manager iTunes offers great and easy ways of creating […]
FlickrSync is an Open Source file synchronization software that synchronizes photos with the popular photo hosting site Flickr. It has to be authorized to communicate with Flickr on first run (which is […]
EEE Rotate is a free program for ASUS EEE PCs that provides you with options to rotate the screen of the device to use it in a rotated state. Some laptop monitor […]
Favicons are those tiny little icons that are displayed in front of every bookmark and tab in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. They can be used to identify a website next to […]
Many companies and organizations use Microsoft Outlook as a central communications platform. Employees can use it to sent and receive emails, read news and create appointments and meetings using the built-in calendar. […]
In my recent articles I have been covering various window managers and desktops for Linux. So far you can read about Fluxbox, Window Maker, and Xfce 4. These desktops and window managers […]
Add-ins are a great way to increase the functionality of Microsoft Office. Some add-ins are compatible with all Microsoft Office programs while others only work in specific applications such as the email […]
Internet Explorer 8 is most likely the best web browser that Microsoft has developed in a very long time. It beats its predecessors Internet Explorer 6 and 7 fair and square, and […]
One of the best programs for video to DVD conversions is the Shareware ConvertXtoDVD which was part of our Christmas Giveaway. It is one of those programs that are easy to use […]
Nokia Map Loader is a software program for the Windows and Macintosh operating system that has been designed by Nokia. The application can download maps for the Nokia Maps service directly to […]
Custom builds of the Firefox web browser are created by third-parties. They usually optimize Firefox (compiler and code), and sometimes add new features to the web browser, or even remove features from […]
The data storage software Gladinet allows Windows users to mount cloud storage as local folders in Windows Explorer. Supported are online storage services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Google Picasa, Windows […]
In this most recent series of articles I have been higlighting various Linux window managers and desktops. Most of them are old school and still very relevant. We've examined Fluxbox and Window […]
Autoruns is probably the most popular advanced Windows startup manager in existence. It is a portable, lightweight application that can be used to configure practically any item that Windows loads during boot […]
Adobe Photoshop SpeedUp is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to improve the loading performance of Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop and other products created by Adobe including the notorious Adobe Reader, […]
Testfreaks is a free website that pulls review scores from review sites from all over the Internet to accumulate all ratings. Researching products and services before making a purchase is one of […]
There was not a way for Internet Explorer 7 users to log into two different Gmail (or Hotmail, Yahoo Mail...) accounts at the same time. Gmail can be replaced with any other […]
Air Icon Generator is a free Adobe Air application that you may use to create icons in different output sizes quickly and without extra costs. I absolutely love all kinds of icons, […]
Continuing with our introduction to old-school Linux window managers, I would like to bring to you Window Maker. The Window Maker window manager was designed to look and feel like the old […]
Dealing with corrupt Word documents or Excel spreadsheets can be quite the daunting task. This is true especially if you don't have access to document backups, for instance because they are also […]
EncodeHD is a portable video encoding software for Windows that has been designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind. You may use the program to convert media formats on Windows […]
There are two issues or problems that Internet users encounter when they want to paste code into forms to display these on the Internet. The first problem that can be encountered is […]
Google's email service Gmail is highly popular. One of the restrictions that many users face is that it only allows you to sign in to one account at a time using the […]
A new version of the popular Bittorrent client uTorrent has been released yesterday evening; the release has been classified as final which means that it should be safe to upgrade uTorrent to […]
The Internet is a dangerous place. Danger does not only exists on the dark side of the net but also on the light side, on respected Internet sites. It is therefor important […]
You can use the site: parameter in search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo to search only a specific website. The site:ghacks.net firefox command for example displays all Ghacks pages that refer […]
If you've been around Linux long enough, then you most likely will have heard about Fluxbox. Fluxbox is a desktop that was based on Blackbox 0.61.1, which makes it extremely light weight, […]
You may remember the announcement of our new web project Appnews which displays software updates in a friendly easily accessible way on its website and as an RSS fee (Note: Appnews has […]
