The standard location for Firefox add-ons to place icons in is the add-on bar, which was previously known as the status bar of the browser. That’s different from the Chrome browser where extension icons are plastered on the address bar instead. The functionality and information that the icons provide is usually not needed all the [...]
Google Showing Ads In Chrome Browser, Is This The Beginning Of The End?
Internet users are accustomed to seeing ads on Internet pages. One of the most prominent advertisement schemes used these days is Google Adsense which is available for websites, searches on websites and for mobile devices. Adword ads dominate the Google search result pages, and other Google properties are also displaying their fair share of ads. [...]
Photo Event Organizer, Image Organizer
Have you ever worked with a folder full of photos? I’m talking hundreds or even thousands of photos taken with different camera models and in different years and locations. It is pretty difficulty to find specific photos or events in a folder filled with such an amount of photos. The free software Photo Event Organizer [...]
Online Etymology Dictionary, Look-up Word Meanings, History
Etymology is the study of a word’s meaning in history. If you are not a scientist trying to find the origin of a word and the changes it went through throughout history, you are probably most interested in the original meaning of a word. This can be interesting from two perspectives. You first may want [...]
Psykopaint, Online Photo Effect Editor
Applying effects to a photo can be a rewarding experience. Most image editors come with a basic set of filters for that purpose. This makes it possible to turn a digital image into a new piece of art. Examples include turning a photo into a mosaic, changing an image into a black and white image [...]
Hide Firefox With TrayHotKey
Firefox cannot be minimized to the Windows system tray, at least not without add-ons or third party tools that add the functionality to the web browser. One of those add-ons is the newly released TrayHotKey extension which, unlike related extensions, has a few aces up its sleeve. Firefox users who have installed the extension and [...]
Three Quarters of EU Firms Not Ready to Recover from IT Failures
Almost three quarters of companies and public-sector organisations across nine European countries might not recover all of their data if they suffer an IT failure according to a new report released by the IT group EMC. For the survey a total of 1,750 European companies and organisations were quizzed across the UK, France, Germany, Italy, [...]
Notepad++ Plugins You Should Consider Installing
Many users of Notepad++, a popular Windows Notepad replacement, do not know that the program ships with a plugin system that allows them to extend its functionality. I will explain briefly how to find and use Notepad++’s plugin manager before I point you in the direction of some of the useful plugins found within. You [...]
SliderDock is a Stylish Application Dock for your Desktop
There are several interesting application docks available and several of them have been mentioned on this site. Desktop customization is easy with Windows 7 and many users enjoy personalizing as much as they possibly can. You can fill up your Toolbar with icons and have the ordinary look or you could use other application dock [...]