Sometimes when you are searching for a specific file you may use Bittorrent indexers to find it. Most indexers allow you to search their index, and it happens that you have to visit and search multiple sites before you find the download that you have been looking for. Torrent Turbo Search is a free Google [...]

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You may have heard that the New York Times will introduce its “paywall” on March 28. It basically limits visitors to 20 articles per month, after which a paywall message appears that asks them to sign up to become a subscriber to access the contents on the site. The message appears as an overlay on [...]

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Outdated browser plugins are a popular attack vector on today’s Internet. This can be largely attributed to the fact that no standard exists to keep the plugins up to date. Some companies that develop plugins try to resolve the issue with background processes that are running 24/7 on the user’s system. That’s highly problematic as [...]

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Add-ons and extensions that promise to speed up the downloading of files that are hosted on file hosts such as Rapidshare or Megaupload come and go all the time. The main reason for this fluctuation is the cat and mouse game between file hosting providers and extension developers. File hosts obviously are interested that users [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, The Web

Incognito Mode is the name of the private browsing option in the Google Chrome browser. Once Incognito Mode is activated it blocks the storage of session related data on the computer’s hard drive. This includes cache files, history entries, searches or cookies. Incognito Mode spawns a new window every time it is activated. Activation is [...]

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Internet users who connect to the Internet out of a computer network have to be very careful about the data they send and receive, and how they do that. The Firefox add-on Firesheep was definitely not the first program to show how easy it is to record data from other users of the network but [...]

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Sticky notes are handy as a temporary means to remember information. They are usually plastered around the monitor and computer desk but Note Anywhere for Chrome takes them to the virtual realm. Note Anywhere is a Google Chrome extension that can be used to created, edit and remove sticky notes from websites. This can be [...]

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Google Chrome only extension Search Engine Blacklist can remove selected sites from Google’s search result listing. The extension is especially useful for users who often stumble upon the same set of spam or irrelevant websites when using Google’s search engine. Do not want to see Wikipedia, ehow, About or other sites in the results all [...]

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Youtube’s video restrictions make it sometimes necessary to divide videos into multiple parts which are then shown under suggestions and sometimes added by the uploader in the video description. It is rather cumbersome to watch a multi-part video on Youtube as it involves finding the next part of the video to continue watching a video. [...]

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