Opera, in the most recent stable version of the web browser, and also in the latest snapshot build, has made changes to the browser’s address bar suggestion feature. This feature basically handles the suggestions the browser displays when the user begins to type in the address bar. Users in the Opera forum were the first [...]
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Microsoft’s Guide For Gmail Users To Switch To Hotmail
Google recently revealed the plan to merge the privacy policies and terms of service for most of the company’s products. This move gives all Google services direct access to all user data. Google search for instance can take into account what kind of emails a user gets in Gmail to personalize the search results based [...]
Close’n Forget Removes Active Sites From Firefox’s History
You sometimes may want to erase traces of web pages that you have visited in the past. This is especially useful on multi-user systems where every user is sharing the same account and profile, but also for privacy conscious users who want to protect their privacy from third parties (for instance during US border controls [...]
YouTube Browse, Video Editor And Manager Updated
While closing some of the company’s lesser popular services, Google’s popular services such as Google+ or YouTube have received plenty of updates in the past. Google today announced that they have updated YouTube’s browse, video editor and video manager pages. Channels have moved into the focus on YouTube with recent updates, and the new browse [...]
FBI Seeks Disasters Social App and Twitter Announces Censorship
The FBI is looking to develop an emergencies early warning system that works by “scraping” information in real time from social networks. The US policing and intelligence bureau has asked contractors to suggest possible solutions and to come up with ways in which this might work. In a post on the Federal Business Opportunities website [...]
Google Music Users Can Now Download All Songs
One of the issues that many users who tried Google Music experienced was the inability to download music officially to a connected device. And while the service’s app saved some of the songs locally while listing, it did not really provide a comfortable user experience. Third party programs like Google Music Downloader filled the gap, [...]
Firefox Profile Switcher Add-on
If you are working with multiple profiles in Firefox you have probably your own ingenious way of launching them. Some Firefox users may use shortcuts to launch their profiles, others the built-in profile manager, the command line or an add-on like Switchy If you are new to the concept, I suggest you take a look [...]
GonVisor, Image, Comic Book and Ebook Reader
If you like to view comic books, ebooks, or image series on your computer you are probably using a specialized program like CDisplay or CoView for this which offer features that standard images viewers do not offer. GonVisor is another versatile software that combines the functionality of an image viewer with ebook and comic book [...]
Display Realtime Currency Exchange Rates In Firefox
Having currency exchange rates displayed in your web browser can be useful in several situations. Maybe you prefer to buy some goods overseas and want the exchange rate right in your browser to make a rough product price calculation. Or you are trading on the foreign exchange market and want to make sure that you [...]