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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Networks Lights Turns Your Keyboard LEDs Into Activity Indicators
Networks Lights Turns Your Keyboard LEDs Into Activity Indicators
Windows only: You squeeze every bit of customization and productivity out of your computer, why let those lazy keyboard LEDs sit idle? Put them to work as network activity indicators.
Network Lights is a tiny application that turns the NumLock and ScrollLock keyboard indicators into incoming and outgoing network traffic indicators. Check out our video here to see the lights in action. The video starts with some simple browsing—we were looking for a ..read more
December 8, 2009
Tags: Activity Indicators, Burst, Customization, Dialogue, Downloads, Freeware Windows, Keyboard Capture, Keyboard Leds, Linux, Linux Iso, Mdash, Motherboard, Numlock, Original Source, Outgoing Network Traffic, Productivity, Scrolllock, Sit, System Tray Icon, Test Machine, Tiny Application Posted in: Software No Comments
Namebench Helps You Find the Fastest DNS Server for Your Computer
Namebench Helps You Find the Fastest DNS Server for Your Computer
Windows/Mac/Linux: Last week Google announced a free DNS service designed to speed up your browsing, but just because Google wants to be fast doesn’t actually mean they’re the best option for you. Namebench finds the fastest DNS server for your connection.
After you download and fire up namebench, just click the Start Benchmark button to test out a handful of free public DNS services, from Google Public DNS to OpenDNS to ..read more
December 8, 2009
Tags: Benchmark, Closer Look, Computer Downloads, Computer Windows, Default Settings, Dns Server, Dns Services, Downloads Mac, Fastest Dns, Free Dns Service, Free Open Source, Google, Handful, Handy Charts, Image, Linux, Mac Linux, Mac Os X, Original Source, Os X, Public Dns, Windows Linux Posted in: Software No Comments
An Early Look at Chrome’s Extensions System
An Early Look at Chrome’s Extensions System
It’s not officially released, but a gallery-like site for extensions has made itself known into the latest development builds of Google Chrome for Windows and Linux. Take a peek at what’s coming, presumably very soon, in these development screenshots.
The Download Squad blog was the first to notice the new new thing in Chrome—namely, a jigsaw-like page corner in Chrome’s new tab page, next to a message at the bottom that reads “New! Chrome now ..read more
November 16, 2009
Tags: Bottom Photos, Checker, Chromium, Developers, Development Screenshots, Dove, Functionality, Google, Icons, Jigsaw, Launch, Linux, Maps News, Mozilla, Original Source, Page Image, Peek, Repository, Siegler, Sync, System Extensions Posted in: Software No Comments
FlagTab Groups Your Firefox Tabs with Colors
FlagTab Groups Your Firefox Tabs with Colors
Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension FlagTab adds relative tabs and customizable colors so you can keep your tabs organized more easily.
Once you’ve installed the extension, you can colorize a tab by simply Ctrl+Clicking to cycle through the colors. Once you’ve colorized a tab, the child tabs will have the same color as the parent tab—it’s similar to the tab grouping feature in Internet Explorer 8. You can access the color settings through the tab ..read more
October 17, 2009
Tags: Background Free, Color Settings, Colorization, Context Menu, Customizable Colors, Download Mozilla, Downloads Mac, Firefox Extension, Groups, Internet Explorer 8, Linux, Mac Linux, Mozilla Add Ons, Original Source, Tabs, Win Linux Posted in: Software No Comments
Dropbox Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
Dropbox Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
iPhone/iPod touch only: Dropbox, one of our favorite cross-platform file-syncing tools, has now made its way to the iPhone and iPod touch, complete with offline file viewing.
Once installed on your device, Dropbox for iPhone provides access to all your Dropbox files, allows you to view any file supported by your iPhone (including documents, photos, music, and video), uploads any photo or video you’ve taken on your device to your Dropbox account, and lets ..read more
October 10, 2009
Tags: Cross Platform, Demo, Downloads, Dropbox, Email, Freeware, Iphone, Ipod, Ipod Touch, Itunes, Linux, Linux Versions, Mac Linux, Music And Video, Music Video, Original Source, Photo, Photos Music, Share File, Sxsw, Video Uploads, Windows Linux Posted in: Hardware, Software No Comments
Get Google Gears Up and Running in Firefox 3.5
Get Google Gears Up and Running in Firefox 3.5
Windows/Mac/Linux: Most developers did a bang-up job preparing their extensions for the Firefox 3.5 update, but on the Firefox 3.5 release day, one very popular extension didn’t make the cut: Google’s browser plug-in, Gears.
It’s a week later, and still no update from the folks at Google, but a few adventurous users have hacked together their own Firefox 3.5 compatible builds of Gears. We wouldn’t recommend that just anyone go download and install ..read more
July 6, 2009
Tags: Beta, Developers, Downloads Mac, Firefox, Gears, Google, Google Group, Intel, Job, Linux, Linux Versions, Mac Linux, Mac Os X, Mac Users, Mileage, Original Source, Os X, Os X Intel, Style Risk, Windows Linux, Windows Version Posted in: Software No Comments
