Up until today I have never tried to send an executable file via Google’s email service. When I tried that today, it looked at first as if it was not a problem. The file was uploading fine and showing up under attachments in the send message window. When I tried to send the email however, [...]
Gmail Background Send
One of the annoying aspects of web mail accounts is that you cannot navigate away from a page after you have initiated an action. This includes uploading larger attachments or sending emails. If you move away, the operation breaks and you have to start all over again. Background Send is a new Google Mail feature [...]
Change Colors Lets You Replace A Page’s Style In Chrome
You sometimes may encounter useful pages that have such an irritating design or page style that you have a hard time concentrating on the contents offered. Maybe it is the blue text on the dark background, or lots of whitespace that hurts the eyes, or links that you cannot distinguish from text. You can run [...]
Facebook Send Button, What Does It Do?
Facebook has a new button. It is called Facebook Send and it is available in addition to the Like Button that has been around for quite some time. Facebook Send basically allows you to send a web page or message to select friends, groups or email addresses. That’s different from Like which posts the message [...]
Combine Multiple RSS Feeds With Yahoo Pipes
Mike just emailed me asking for a way to combine all of his author feeds from all websites he is writing for to publish all of his articles as a single feed on his Facebook page. There are lots of services out there that can combine RSS feeds into one feed. This can be handy [...]
Replace Firefox’s Right-Click Search Engine
When you select text in the Firefox web browser and right-click afterwards, you get a custom context menu with options to search Google for the selected term. That option can be quite handy to quickly find information about text on a website without having to type the text in a search form, or having to [...]
What’s That Preference Links Firefox Preferences To MozillaZine Knowledge Base
One of the thing that’s extremely unhandy when you are working with Firefox preferences is that you cannot access a detailed explanation of a preference’s functionality directly. You have to copy the name, do a search on the web in hope of finding a suitable explanation. This often leads to the Mozillazine entry of the [...]
Configure Firefox’s Multi Links Extension To Become A Link Handling Powerhouse
I only have a handful of Firefox extensions installed all the time. One of them is Multi Links, a versatile link handling extension. I often use it to open multiple pages on a website or forum at once. Say you have a website that posts ten links to images each week, funny cartoons or whatever. [...]
Download Free Music Legally, An Updated Guide
The Internet is full of possibilities to download free music legally. Free and legal, is not that tautological? Not necessarily, as you may stumble upon offers to download free music that are only free for users from a specific country. This guide however covers methods and services that allow or enable everyone to download free [...]