I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan of the Facebook sidebar ticker that is now displaying on every page on the social networking site. The ticker displays the latest activities of friends on Facebook. The annoying thing about it is that it updates in real-time, which means that you see constant movement [...]

Categories: Facebook, Firefox

Google’s customizable start page iGoogle is nice and all, as it gives users options to create their own unique homepage on the Internet. It is a module driven system where users can add modules like news, weather reports or applications to their page. The layout is however less than optimal for low screen resolution systems [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Friends on the social networking site Facebook are not necessarily only people that you know. It is actually very easy to befriend someone on Facebook, and almost as easy to unfriend them again. Unfriend in this context means to remove the person from the friendlist on Facebook. Some Facebook users may want to know if [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Opera

I sometimes miss to look at a link destination before I click on the link in question. That is usually not a problem unless it does not point to a website but a file. Depending on the configuration, this may open or execute the file right away on the computer, or display a prompt. PDF [...]

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

Google rolled out a new version of Google Image Search some time ago. The most prominent change is that all image results are now displayed on the same page, with new images being loaded as the user scrolls down. The number of image previews on a search result page has increased as well. This can [...]

Categories: Google

For a while now I have been looking for a way to zoom images in the Firefox web browser with minimal effort. Something similar to the excellent Hoover Zoom extension for the Google Chrome browser. And while there have been some extensions and userscripts that supported some sites, there was barely anything that would work [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera

SoundCloud users and visitors can only download some of the music offered at the popular audio hosting service. Just enter a song name or part of a name in the search form on the main SoundCloud page to get a list of results that match the query. All songs can be played right away on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Music and Video

Chatting on Facebook can be pretty handy at times. I often catch friends on Facebook that I would otherwise have a hard time contacting, especially if they live in a different time zone. It is ok for a quick chat, setting up a meeting and everything else that does not take long explanations. Well, that’s [...]

Categories: Facebook

Youtube is without doubt currently the most popular and known video hosting website in the world. The site, despite its popularity, lacks several features that would improve a visitor’s usability considerably. Two of the missing features that come to mind are the ability to select a specific minimum and maximum video quality automatically, and to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox