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 […]
Active Hotkeys is a free program for Windows that you can run to display all hotkeys that are active on a machine running Windows. There is no option in the Microsoft Windows […]
If you remember my last media entry, The best Linux media players, you'll remember I left out one very important entry - Songbird. At the time I really hadn't given this relatively […]
Keyboard Tweaker is a lightweight computer program that helps you manage keyboard shortcuts on Windows PCs. It offers various configuration options to aid you in the process and uses roughly one Megabyte […]
Keeping track of an extensive video collection can be quite a daunting task especially if the collection includes more than a few dozens videos, TV shows and movies; It becomes almost impossible […]
Note: The Windows 7 Release Candidate is no longer available for download. The following information are kept for archiving purposes. Most tech blogs are reporting that the Windows 7 Release Candidate has […]
If you're into browsers, browser tech and mashups, chances are you know what Mozilla's Ubiquity is. In a nutshell, it's a mashup service which lets you navigate and manipulate the web in […]
When you want to run a program on a Windows PC, you have quite a few options to do so. You can click on the program icon on the desktop, taskbar or […]
If you think you've got what it takes, why not write a book? Oh yeah, it's takes a load of time, a huge load of marketing effort, and even more money to […]
Internet Explorer handles cookies in a different way than other web browsers. It stores cookies on the local hard drive and leaves traces behind even if cookies have expired. Cookies have an […]
Bluetooth View is a portable software program by one of our favorite software developers Nirsoft to monitors Bluetooth activity. It is a lightweight software program running in the background of a computer […]
If you've spent enough time over the years with Linux you know that the browser plug-in has been a source of agony for many. When plugins first became a necessity for browsing […]
NexusFont is a portable font manager for the Windows operating system to install, uninstall, and preview fonts on Windows PCs. Font managers can be useful for several reasons: they can give a […]
There are basically two ways to log into Gmail. Either by using the Gmail web interface that is available for most users at gmail.com or by accessing Gmail remotely using desktop or […]
File & Image Uploader is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to upload files and images more comfortably to file hosting services on the Internet. So called file hosts or file […]
Benchmarks can be an appropriate method of comparing different products with each other. Internet browser benchmarks usually calculate the processing speed of JavaScript and other metrics that may be of importance on […]
If you don't know, the Bubba 2 is a piece of hardware, driven by the Linux operating system, created by ecXito. The Bubba 2 can stream media, serve files, share printers, and […]
Update: The program has not been updated for a long while and it is unclear if it is still working properly. A far better option is to configure Gmail to use IMAP, […]
Userscripts can be very helpful on the Internet as they may modify functionality on sites you visit; Greasemonkey is one of the most popular extension for Firefox to add userscript support to […]
Google Chrome - and the browser's Open Source base Chromium - are relatively new web browser developed by Google. Chrome offers several interesting features and ideas that other Internet browsers do not […]
Family Budget Planner is a free software program for devices running Windows that assists you in keeping track of your budget. While designed with families in mind, it can be used by […]
Sleep Mode - which goes under the name standby, sleep or suspend depending on the operating system in use - has been created to save energy in situations where a computer system […]
If you have to read or edit document formats such as doc, docx or odt regularly, it is probably best to install a full Office suite such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or […]
It seems like I'm the resident Google Labs reporter here at gHacks, but truth be told, they have been rolling out some cool features! The development team's latest is the ability to […]
The Linux operating system is typically immune to viruses attached to email. But it is not immune to SPAM. Left unfiltered your inbox would quickly fill up with more SPAM than you […]
