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Windows Explorer Context Menu Editor 
Martin via gHacks technology news on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
File Menu Tools (via Technology Bites) is a free Windows Explorer context menu editor. The application comes with a set of tools to add new pre-configured functions to the context menu, edit the Send To menu and configure entries adde
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Copy Command Line Outputs Directly To The Clipboard
Martin via gHacks technology news on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
If you regularly save command line output into text files to process it further you might like a solution that copies the output directly to the clipboard to be able to process it faster. One of the best places to find tiny but useful applications is the Donation Coder forum and ClipCopy, the tool to copy command line output directly to the clipboard,
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Microsoft .net Framework Cleanup Tool
Martin via gHacks technology news on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The Microsoft .net Framework is being used by a wide variety of software applications. Microsoft made the decision to provide the different .net Framework versions as separate installations. This effectively means that someone who installs the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 on his computer will automatically install the previous .net Framework versions as well for backward compatibility.
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Access Rapidshare Even If It Is Banned
(unknown author) via gHacks technology news on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Shared by javaneze
must install
If you are in the position to have access to a network that has banned Rapidshare but is otherwise pretty lax when it comes to restrictions you might want to bypass the ban to be able to download from Rapidshare. I would not advise doing that at work or school because it can have serious consequences. Still, if you want to try if i
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Access Rapidshare Even If It Is Banned
Martin via gHacks technology news on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
If you are in the position to have access to a network that has banned Rapidshare but is otherwise pretty lax when it comes to restrictions you might want to bypass the ban to be able to download from Rapidshare. I would not advise doing that at work or school because it can have serious consequences. Still, if you want to try if it is working you might want to head over to the Mozilla website
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Everything Is A Rather Unusual Desktop Search Tool
(unknown author) via gHacks technology news on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Shared by David Bradley
Search...everything
Search tools usually begin to display results as soon as the user is entering some characters. Some instantly display hits while others require the use of the enter key to start the search. Everything - that’s the name of the portable software that is under review - uses a diffe
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Use Dreamscene On Windows XP
Martin via gHacks technology news on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Dreamscene is a technology introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista Ultimate that made it possible to display videos and other animations as the desktop background of the operating system. Other Windows Vista editions and previous Microsoft operating systems are not supported by Windows Dreamscene officially.
A third party alternative for Windows XP to Windows Dreamscene is
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Split CSV Files
Martin via gHacks technology news on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
CSV (Comma Separated Values) files are used to store tabular data with each line of a csv file corresponding to one row of the table. The columns of each row are separated by commas which makes it an easy process to create a table out of csv files.
The most common use of csv files is data export and import. Many applications provide an export to csv option which will store the selected d
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Completely Uninstall Microsoft Messenger Variants
Martin via gHacks technology news on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
Microsoft Messenger variants, such as MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Windows Messenger, sometimes cause difficulties during uninstallation throwing error messages such as “Another version of the product is already installed”, “Your computer has a newer version of MSN Messenger than the one you are trying to install”, ““Your computer has a newer version of Windows Live Mess
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ping.fm: Update all your social networks at once
Joe via gHacks technology news on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Sites like Twitter have scores of competitors and it is possible that for someone to effectively socially network, they will have to use sites other than their preferred one. It is obviously quite a chore to have to update Twitter, Facebook, Pownce etc separately.
Commenter reactive pointed out ping.fm, a website which in
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ISO Format Converter
Martin via gHacks technology news on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Disk images come in various formats like the popular ISO format but also img, bin, mdf, cdi, nrg or b51. The formats are created by various applications and one hardly comes upon a burning software that can burn all of the formats.
Converting the formats into a supported format is probably the best solution if you encounter an unsupported disk image format.
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Add Trash To Firefox Bookmarks
(unknown author) via gHacks technology news on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Shared by David Bradley
Trash your bookmarks
Deleting bookmarks in Firefox will remove them permanently from the web browser. There is no going back which might sometimes end in chaos and desperation. Some users might feel more secure with some sort of backup to recover accidentally deleted bookmarks.
That’s where
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Access Blocked Websites By Email
Martin via gHacks technology news on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Many companies, schools or universities love to block popular websites. A large proportion of computer users however start digging around to find ways to overcome the block instead of concentrating on work. Many make use of web proxies to access blocked websites. Proxies however come and go rapidly and get blocked very fast as well. This means that the user is spending some time of his week hun
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10 Annoying Aspects Of Tech Blogs
Martin via gHacks technology news on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Good old Rarst posted another interesting article today about 10 things that make tech blogs unreadable. He has become quite the little ranter over at his Rarst stronghold but I have to admit that he has a point.
His post got me thinking about aspects of tech blogs that I dislike and I came up w
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Google Reader Essentials Userscript
Martin via gHacks technology news on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Helvetireader is a minimal Google Reader interface theme supplied as a userscript that turns Google Reader into an optimized feed reader that is displaying only the essentials. It was especially designed to view feeds in the expanded view using keyboard shortcuts.
A userscript compatible browser is needed for the new interface theme to work. Lo
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Snow Desktop
Martin via gHacks technology news on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
If you have liked the Desktop Christmas Tree you will love Snow Desktop as it is the perfect companion for the Christmas Tree. Snow Desktop will make it snow on the desktop once it is executed. Not the usual kind of snow though that is falling from top to bottom in an overlay without interacting with anything that is current
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Free Driver Update
Martin via gHacks technology news on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Updating drivers can be a tedious job. One has to monitor the websites of the hardware manufacturers to keep up to date with new driver versions. Using a program to scan a computer system and check the driver versions against the latest drivers can help in the maintenance of the system.
One free driver update software is RadarSysnc 2009. It can be
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Play Random MP3 Albums In Winamp
Martin via gHacks technology news on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
RandoMP3 is a lightweight software program for Winamp that offers two interesting features. The first feature called Audition will randomly select a MP3 album from the music collection and start playing it in Winamp. The program provides the means to move or delete the folder as well which makes it an ideal application
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Firefox Mass Password Reset
Martin via gHacks technology news on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
It is a common among security professionals to use a password only once. Many Internet users on the other hand prefer to select the same username and password on all websites that they create accounts for to make it easier to access those websites. Having to remember only one password is easier than having to remember several.
Tools have been created that can generate and store unique st
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Shrinkomatic URL Shortening With A Twist
Martin via gHacks technology news on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Ghacks author Daniel Pataki is pretty busy these days with all the new Internet websites and services that he is creating. His latest service is called Shrinkomatic. It is an url shortening service with one interesting unique feature.
But first things first. To shorten an url one would simply head over to the Shrinkomatic website and paste the url in the form on the main page. The servic
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