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BookInfoLine, Compare Book Prices Online

One of the things that you should always do when shopping online is to compare prices. You can use price search engines for that, or manually visit some of your favorite stores and online shopping portals to buy for the best price. We have taken a look at price comparison add-ons for Firefox (see Firefox [...]

Author: , Thursday November 18, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Tapin Radio, Simple Internet Radio Player And Recorder

Sometimes all you want to do is to play Internet radio on your computer. Most music players support Internet Radio, some offer in-program browsing and searching of music, others can play what the user selects on a website or loads from the local system. Tapin Radio has been designed to be an easy to use [...]

Author: , Thursday November 18, 2010
Categories: Software, Windows

Internet Explorer is THE MOST Secure Web Browser… Who’d Have Thought That!

A report compiled by security company Bit9 has named the “dirty dozen” web browsers with the most discovered vulnerabilities, and the results, which have been posted by NeoWin come as something of a, well let’s face it, a major surprise. Bit9′s CEO, Harry Sverdlove said “A variety of vulnerability types – including buffer-overflow and cross-site [...]

Author: , Thursday November 18, 2010
Categories: Google, Microsoft

AniWeather, Display Weather Conditions In Firefox

What’s the weather like today? If you want to answer that question you will have to either find it out by yourself, for instance by stepping outside, by asking other people or with the help of weather reports. AniWeather displays weather conditions in the Firefox web browser, unobtrusively. I did not see the weather conditions [...]

Author: , Thursday November 18, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Automatically save my Conversation History In Windows Live Messenger

Depending on how you use Windows Live Messenger, it may be beneficial to save the chat conversation history automatically as a backup in order to access it whenever information from the chat need to be retrieved again. That’s for instance essential for businesses, and business related chat, but can also make sense at home when [...]

Author: , Thursday November 18, 2010
Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Convert Partial RSS Feeds Into Full-Text Feeds

Some webmasters believe that offering partial feeds of their news entries only in the RSS Feed drives more visitors to their website. While that may be true, it has an adverse effect as well. The feed subscription count will drop, as some users will unsubscribe from it, especially if the webmaster has offered full-text feeds [...]

Author: , Thursday November 18, 2010
Categories: Online Services, The Web

Shotty, Smart Screenshot Software With Extras

Windows users have lots of choice when it comes to taking screenshots. They can use the Print screen and do without software, or install one of the many free or commercial screenshot taking applications. My favorite program for the job until now was MWSnap, a lightweight screen capturing software that is unfortunately not developed anymore [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 17, 2010
Categories: Software, Windows

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 Released

Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 on their IE9 testdrive website. Users should not confuse the platform preview releases with the beta release of Internet Explorer 9. The former come without a full web browsing interface, i.e. a address bar is missing. The platform previews show the development process of Internet [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 17, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

CoLT, Copy Link Text And URL In Firefox, Beats Copy Fixer By A Mile

I just read the review of Copy Fixer by Erez over at the Download Squad and thought that it would be nice to share my opinion on the topic. Copy Fixer is an extension for Firefox and Chrome that copies the page title and url from the active page on Ctrl-C if nothing is selected, [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 17, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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