The video portal Veoh is unlike any other video portal on the Internet. One of the main differences between Veoh and other video portals like Youtube is that Veoh is limiting the playback of some of the larger videos on their site to a five minute preview. Veoh asks its users to download the web [...]

Categories: Browsing, Entertainment, Firefox, The Web

Google Mail is without doubt one of the most popular online email services. What makes it so interesting is not only the functionality that it provides out of the box but also its extensibility. The following article contains all the tools and tips needed to make you a Gmail pro. It contains the best Firefox [...]

Categories: Email

The various video qualities at the Youtube video portal are confusing part of its userbase. Youtube videos can be viewed in the original quality in a screen resolution of 320 x 240 but also in various other formats like 480 x 360 or 1280 x 720 which are further divided into various framerates and audio [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

It can happen that the Firefox Greasemonkey extension is displaying the message “No Scripts Installed” even if you have installed a script a second ago or already use Greasemonkey scripts. Some users might suspect that they need to restart the browser or at least refresh the page before the new Greasemonkey script is shown as [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

It is a bit ironic that users are looking for ways to automatically fill out captchas to save time as captchas have been invented to prevent bots from accessing websites automatically. Most captchas on the Internet are either easily defeatable by bots (yes even those basic math equations can be solved automatically) or almost unreadable [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The Invert Colors add-on for Firefox will – as the name suggests – invert any colors on websites basically turning very dark looking websites into lighter ones and vice verse. The first run after the installation of the add-on will come as a shock for many users as the option is turned on globally by [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

If you like to test and install Greasemonkey scripts on a regular basis you might be regularly hanging out at the Userscripts website which contains the largest collection of Greasemonkey scripts on the Internet. It is not that practical as you have to always head over to the site to search for Greasemonkey scripts for [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Helvetireader is a minimal Google Reader interface theme supplied as a userscript that turns Google Reader into an optimized feed reader that is displaying only the essentials. It was especially designed to view feeds in the expanded view using keyboard shortcuts. A userscript compatible browser is needed for the new interface theme to work. Long [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Greasemonkey scripts can really increase the usability of a web browser which is especially true for scripts that improve a day to day activity. If you regularly search for and download files at Rapidshare you might have felt the frustration when a link was not working anymore. Most Rapidshare Search sites and search engines give [...]

Categories: Browsing, Software