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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If you need to buy a new copy of Microsoft Office but don’t want an instantly outdated suite when Office 2010 is released later this year, you’re in luck: If you buy Office 2007 any time between March 5 and September 30 of this year, you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
Create a New Text File in Finder with One Click
Create a New Text File in Finder with One Click [Downloads]
Mac only: One convenient Windows feature missing in OS X is the ability to quickly create a new text file in the current folder. By simply dragging a small Applescript-turned-application to Finder’s toolbar, this dream quickly becomes reality.
There are any number of reasons you’d need a quick text file in the working folder—if you’re working with icons, testing a new file-based tweak, or just need to make an immediate note—the ..read more
January 17, 2010
Tags: Applescript, Click Create, Context Menu, Current, Downloads Mac, Easy Solution, File Downloads, File Finder, File Folder, Icons, Implements, Lifehacker, Mdash, New Folder, Newfound Fame, Original Source, Os X, Rich Text Files, Toolbar, Tweak, Unzip File Posted in: Software No Comments
Pastefire Makes Sharing Text Desktop-to-iPhone a Breeze
Pastefire Makes Sharing Text Desktop-to-iPhone a Breeze [Downloads]
iPhone only: Anyone with a smartphone has been there: You’re browsing on your computer but want to transfer a bit of info to your phone. You could email it to yourself, or you could try Pastefire, a clever desktop-to-iPhone sharing tool.
Once you’ve downloaded it to your desktop, head to the Copy Zone, enter in any bit of text along with a username and password (doing this once will create an account for you—the ..read more
January 17, 2010
Tags: Bookmarklet, Cellphone, Clever Idea, Desktop Downloads, Desktop Sharing, Email Search, Free Download, Iphone, Ipod, Itunes, Mdash, Original Source, Phone Number, Safari, Sending Email, Sharing Tool, Smartphone, Text Browser, Text Message, Timesaver, Wikipedia Posted in: Software No Comments
Get Lyrical Adds Song Lyrics to iTunes
Get Lyrical Adds Song Lyrics to iTunes
Mac only: If you’re going to warble along with your favorite song, make sure you get the words right. Get Lyrical is a free app that automatically displays the lyrics of whatever song is playing in iTunes.
This tiny app grabs lyrics from lyrics.wikia.com and shows them in a resizable window as the song is playing. you can choose to have Get Lyrical display words to every song as it begins, or only the ones ..read more
December 13, 2009
Tags: Displays, Downloads Mac, Favorite Song, Grabs, Ilyrics, Itunes, Job, Karaoke, Lyrics Song, Minilyrics, Original Source, Playlist, Resizable Window, Song Downloads, Song Lyrics, Whatever Song Posted in: Software No Comments
