Sometimes you come upon links that you want to share with someone else. Maybe a rick roll for your online friends, maybe a new photo gallery for your family, or a work related link that you want other employees or your boss to know about. Most users who want to share links open up their [...]
TooManyTabs For Chrome Improves Tab Management
If you have a lot of tabs open in the Chrome web browser, you will notice at one point that you cannot see the favicons (the website specific icons) anymore in the browser’s tab bar. That’s a problem as it is no longer possible to identify the websites that are open in Google Chrome. Take [...]
Microsoft Readies Task Manager For Large Scale Computer Systems
When you look at the performance view of Windows Task Manager on your desktop PC you probably see between two or eight logical processors listed in the interface. On large scale computer systems running Windows 7, the count may be a lot higher. Microsoft showed a screenshot of the performance tab of Windows Task Manager [...]
Get Coupon Code Notifications on Merchant Sites In Firefox
Coupons are a great way of saving money on the Internet. They obviously work best if you can get a coupon for an online shopping site that you want to make a purchase on (and not the other way round). The Firefox extension CouponsHelper is an unobtrusive add-on that informs you about coupon codes on [...]
Skype Developer Tools Extended, Opens Skype App Directory
Skype is a voice over IP software that millions of computer users use every day to communicate with each other. The Skype protocol or functionality up until now has not been made available in many third party applications or services. The most prominent example in recent times is without doubt the integration of Skype’s video [...]
Google Apps Users Can Now Join Google+
One of the points of criticism surrounding Google’s social networking site Google+ (Google Plus) was the fact that Google Apps users could not join the service. That was irritating for many Google Apps users, not only because they pay money for the Google Service but also because it was not really clear why they were [...]
Remove Google +1 Buttons, Previews From Google Search Results
Search giant Google lately has added Google +1 buttons to nearly every web property the company owns. Most Google users may notice the +1 buttons on Google search result pages where they are placed next to each site url. In addition, users who are logged in see if they or their Google+ friends have recommended [...]
Firefox PDF.js Extension To Open PDF Documents Natively
Browser developers add new features to web browsers all the time. Sometimes those features improve the browser’s usability. This is for instance the case with the native pdf reading capabilities of the Chrome browser. Instead of having to install a third party plugin for that functionality or to download the pdf document first to read [...]
How to Secure Windows Phone with a Delayed Password
One of the problems with Windows Phone when the operating system was first released was that while you could secure your phone with a passcode it was either all or nothing. This meant that you either had to type in a passcode every single time you wanted to do anything on your phone or it [...]