Google has a distinct advantage that other companies on the web do not have. Google Search at the time of writing controls more than 50% of all search on the web, which can go up in some countries to more than 90%. Google uses this to their advantage by promoting their own services in search. [...]

Categories: Facebook, Google, Twitter

While Google Translate is probably the most popular online translation service, there are others that may be less popular but are often equally good when it comes to translating contents into other languages. Microsoft’s Translation service is without doubt not as popular as Google’s service. The service is available over at Microsoft Translator. It works [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Tools

A website’s layout and formatting may improve or reduce its readability. Black text on a dark background or distracting menus are just two of the elements that reduce the readability of a textual information. The Firefox add-on Readable, a direct port of the bookmarklet Readable, falls into the same category of tools such as TidyRead, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The Internet is full of annoyances. That does not mean that you encounter them on every website you visit, but chance is relatively high that you stumble upon sites regularly that have features that you find annoying. This starts with pretty basic annoyances, blinking text for instance or background music which are thankfully more or [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Have you experienced the following situation? You just received an email or message from a friend that contained a link to a funny must see video. Problem is, you do not have time to watch it right now. What do you do? Most users wait until they have the time, some may even bookmark the [...]

Categories: The Web

One of the things that you notice when you run a browser without Adobe Flash is that the majority of videos won’t play anymore. While that’s more or less obvious, considering that Flash is the technology that most video portals use to stream the videos to the user, it is a little known fact that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

You sometimes may want to save a web page, either for archiving or reference purposes, or because you like to read the page on another device or at a time without Internet connection. While it is possible to save web pages as HTML files it is often considered to be a weak option, as you [...]

Categories: Online Services

Facebook does not seem to come to rest these days with the increasing awareness that privacy is not handled the way it should be on the popular social networking site. The problems boil down to the large number of privacy related settings and the ever changing nature of the network which intentionally or unintentionally makes [...]

Categories: Facebook

Quix is a customizable command driven bookmarklet that can be used in most of today’s web browsers including Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome or Safari. It is basically a mixture of Mozilla’s Ubiquity and an extended search add-on like Cybersearch for Firefox in the form of a bookmarklet. The bookmarklet needs to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera