FlashHacker Keeps Flash Videos in Full Screen on Your Dual Monitors
FlashHacker Keeps Flash Videos in Full Screen on Your Dual Monitors
Windows: If you’ve got more than one monitor, you’ve probably tried fullscreening a Flash video on one monitor while working in another. The problem: Flash exits fullscreen as soon as you click on something. FlashHacker fixes this problem.
A few months ago we highlighted a somewhat complicated method of tweaking Flash to fix this problem, but it hasn’t been updated for a while and doesn’t work with Flash 10 (the latest ..read more
March 7, 2010
Tags: Downloads Full, Downloads Videos, Dual Monitors, Flash Button, Flash Fullscreen, Flash Video, Flash Videos, Full Downloads, Hack, Linux, Linux Users, Mike Pegg, Original Source, Tweaking Posted in: Software 
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Better Gmail 2 Updated
Better Gmail 2 Updated
Google’s Gmail tweak broke some of the more popular features of my Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension this week, including Folders4Gmail and Hide Spam Count. Thanks to the quick work of Arend v. Reinersdorff, the problems have been fixed. If you’re a Better Gmail 2 user and your labels aren’t collapsing properly or your Spam count is showing when it shouldn’t, hit the “Find Updates” button in Firefox’s Add-ons dialog to get the fix, or download the ..read more
March 7, 2010
Tags: Firefox, Gmail, Google, Labels, Original Source, Thanks For Your Patience, Tweak Posted in: Software No Comments
Get Gigabytes of Free, Legitimate Music from SXSW 2010
Get Gigabytes of Free, Legitimate Music from SXSW 2010
Every year music lovers from across the country head to Austin, Texas for SXSW, and for the past six of those years, SXSW has offered hundreds of DRM-free tracks from artists playing at SXSW—and it’s all available via BitTorrent.
Just head to the Home of the Unofficial SXSW torrents to grab the first torrent, featured 646 tracks weighing in at 3.35 GB. These songs are all freely available on the official SXSW web ..read more
March 7, 2010
Tags: Artists, Austin Texas, Free Music, Mdash, Music Country, Music Free, Music Head, Music Lovers, New Music, Original Source, Sxsw 2005, Torrent, Torrents Posted in: Software No Comments
New Office 2007 Users Get Free Upgrade to Office 2010
New Office 2007 Users Get Free Upgrade to Office 2010
If you need to buy a new copy of Microsoft Office but don’t want an instantly outdated suite when Office 2010 is released later this year, you’re in luck: If you buy Office 2007 any time between March 5 and September 30 of this year, you automatically qualify for a free upgrade to Office 2010 when it’s released. [Microsoft via Digital Inspiration
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March 7, 2010
Tags: Free Upgrade, Free Upgrades, Inspiration, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, New Office, Original Source Posted in: Software No Comments
Master Multiple Firefox Profiles for More Productive Browsing
Master Multiple Firefox Profiles for More Productive Browsing
One of the most powerful features in Firefox is also one too few people know about: the ability to create and use more than one profile at the same time. Here’s how to streamline and reap the benefits of multiple browsing profiles.
Instead of installing every single extension for every task into the same Firefox profile, why not separate them into separate profiles, organized by task? Think of Firefox like an Operating System for ..read more
February 27, 2010
Tags: Basic Web, Command Line Switch, Create Profile, Daily Basis, Default Menu, Directory Cd, Instances, Launch, Lifehacker, Mozilla Firefox, New Profile, Operating System, Personal, Profile Manager, Profiles, Programfiles, Running, Shortcut Exe, Target Line, Web Development Posted in: Software No Comments
Sunday Last Day for Windows 7 RC, But Upgrading Is Easy
Sunday Last Day for Windows 7 RC, But Upgrading Is Easy
This Sunday is the last day users still running Windows 7 RC will be able to go about their everyday computing before Windows starts with the nagging and auto-rebooting. The annoying part is less that the Windows 7 RC period is ending (it was a great run!), but more that there’s no upgrade path for going from Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 proper. Luckily we’ve already highlighted a simple ..read more
February 27, 2010
Tags: Everyday Computing, Minimal Complications, Original Source, Running, Upgrade Windows Posted in: Software No Comments
Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers
Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers
A great BitTorrent client is all well and good, but you need a great tracker to get the actual torrent files and stoke the bandwidth burning fire in your client of choice. Here’s a rundown of five of the most popular options.
A bit of clarification is in order before we share the list of the top five contenders with you. In our call for contenders we asked for you to share your favorite BitTorrent trackers, but ..read more
February 1, 2010
Tags: Bittorrent Client, Bittorrent Tracker, Bittorrent Trackers, Btjunkie, Burning Fire, Clarification, Contenders, End Users, Hive Five, Indexer, Indexers, Indexes, Mdash, Phenomenon, Pirate Bay, Rundown, Seekers, Service Tracker, Technical Details, Torrent Files, Torrents Posted in: Software No Comments
Current Crop of E-Readers Compared: iPad vs. the Rest
Current Crop of E-Readers Compared: iPad vs. the Rest
Developer and blogger Darren Beckett rounds up a crop of five e-readers and gives them a short price and feature comparison with the newly released iPad—and rolled the results into an eye-friendly infographic.
(Click the image above for a closer look.)
We may have our problems with the iPad, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t interested in buying it. This comparison pits the iPad against other similar devices, highlighting price, screen size and type, ..read more
February 1, 2010
Tags: Beckett, Blogger, Bottom Of The Barrel, Closer Look, Convergence Devices, Cost Of Ownership, Current, Developer, E Reader, Enthusiasts, Feature Comparison, Fi, Functionality, Image, Ipad, Joojoo, Mdash, Original Source, Smartphones, Swallow, Type Storage Posted in: General No Comments
Flash Player Will Not Install or Windows Update for Flash Player Wont Install
Why Wont Flash Player Install?
Adobe Flash is a plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox that allows active content to be displayed in your web browser. As with other third party programs, its updated on a regular basis. In many cases, the Flash Security Update KB923789 in Windows Update would not install properly. In other cases, you may have received an error “you must install a later version of the Macromedia Flash Player”.
In April 2008, Adobe is releasing another security update ..read more
February 1, 2010
Tags: Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller, Adobe Plugin, April, Click On The Following Link, Control Panel, Download Adobe, Download Flash, Firefox, Flash Download, Flash Plugin, Internet Explorer, Macromedia Flash Player, Old Versions, Security Level, Shockwave Download, Third Party, Web Page, Windows Update, Www Adobe Posted in: General No Comments
Make New Tabs Open at Far Right in Firefox 3.6
Make New Tabs Open at Far Right in Firefox 3.6
Among the changes in the official Firefox 3.6 release is a change to where new tabs open from clicked links—to the right of the tab they launched from. Liked it better the old way? Here’s the quick fix.
The Mozilla Links blog points out a few about:config tweaks that Firefox 3.6 users might be intrigued in, especially if the new version handles things a bit differently than you’re used to, and you ..read more
January 25, 2010
Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, New Tabs, Original Source, Search Bar, Tweak, Tweaks Posted in: General No Comments
