You may sometimes encounter pages, websites or services on the Internet that you’d like to share with friends, colleagues or family. Many websites offer sharing buttons to share the link on social networking sites like Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. Only a few offer options to mail the page to one or multiple recipients. You can [...]

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Browser extensions can improve a web browser’s functionality significantly. They can improve a user’s workflow on the web or add information to the browser that would otherwise not be directly accessible. When you look at popular extensions you will notice that they differ considerable between browsers. The most popular Firefox extensions for instance are all [...]

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All you see are asterisks whenever you enter passwords on the Internet. This makes it near impossible to make sure the correct password has been entered. The only indicator is the length of the password, but that works best for short passwords and not so good for larger more secure ones as it takes time [...]

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If you are working in a multi-user office or in a room that people may enter unannounced, you’d probably like an option to hide what’s shown on the screen when that happens. Maybe you like buying gifts for someone online, like to surf on a site that you are not allowed to access, or do [...]

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Most Facebook users probably have one or two page elements or features that annoy the hell out of them. This can be a small recent change like the top posts feature that promotes some posts and modifies the timeline by doing so, or something bigger like the new photo viewer interface or the highly annoying [...]

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Pillarbox is a free Google chrome extension for writers and who prefer a simple user interface over one cluttered with buttons and menus you will probably never use. Even a popup window can wreck your concentration enough to prevent you from completing a cogent thought. So can other people, but this won’t help with that. [...]

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The Chrome extension Rain Alarm provides users with up to date precipitation warnings. The extension adds an icon to Chrome’s address bar upon installation that acts as a warning indicator, as it changes if it needs to inform the user about local weather warnings. The icon itself is rather small and definitely not the best [...]

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Many Google Chrome extensions add a button to the browser’s address toolbar. If you have installed more than a dozen or so extensions, you may notice that space can become a issue, especially if the majority of extensions has added a button to the address bar. While you can hide individual extension icons with a [...]

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I had my eyes on the FastestFox add-on for the Firefox browser for some time now. In the beginning, I thought it was just another add-on to speed up the browser like Fasterfox which tweaks the network performance of Firefox. Turned out that FastestFox, and its FastestChrome clone, offer a lot more than that. The [...]

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