Disposable email services are a great way of hiding an email account during account signups on the Internet. Many Internet services (and some computer programs as well) require an account before the service can be used. Some of these websites send unwanted emails to the user or sell the data to other companies that will [...]
Fix Firefox Spell Check Not Working
Firefox’s spell checker can be a powerful tool for users who write regularly on the Internet but especially for those users who want to make sure that they do not overlook typing errors. It helps to have the spell checker running in the background to check for these obvious spelling mistakes.
It can happen that the [...]
Search Multiple Video Search Engines With Videosurf
Videosurf is a video search website that can search multiple video portals at once. Support video websites are among others Youtube, Hulu, Google Videos, Dailymotion, CNN Video, Reuters and dozens more. Video search results are mixed from all video portals and displayed on the website. One interesting feature of Videosurf are the categories that are [...]
Firefox: Edit Forms On Websites In External Editors
t’s All Text is an interesting add-on for the firefox web browser that allows Firefox users to fill out web forms in an external text editor. External text editors have many advantages over the build in way of adding text to web forms in Internet browsers. They usually provide a deeper functionality that includes macros, [...]
F-Secure Exploit Shield Protects Against 0-Day Web Browser Exploits
One of the major security threats that computer users face in the last years are web browser exploits. These exploits use 0-day vulnerabilities to infect web browsers that have not been patched to protect against the vulnerability. It does not always have to be the user’s fault if a web browser has not been patched [...]
Sync Google Chrome Bookmarks With Xmarks
The Google Chrome developers have only recently begun to offer bookmark syncing between different installations of the Google Chrome web browser. This option to sync the bookmarks uses Google Docs to store the bookmarks and requires therefor a Google account. The main limitation is however that it only syncs between Google browser installations. That’s a [...]
Optimize Firefox Databases With Vacuum Places
The Mozilla Firefox development team switched to SQlite databases for data storage in Firefox 3. One problem that arose because of this switch was an increasing Firefox profile folder size as there was no build in way to optimize the SQlite databases regularly. We reviewed a solution to this problem a while ago (read: optimize [...]
