The Internet is full of annoyances. That does not mean that you encounter them on every website you visit, but chance is relatively high that you stumble upon sites regularly that have […]
The latest Opera 11.10 alpha snapshot which got released yesterday contains changes to Opera's speed dial feature, among other improvements. Speed Dial was first introduced in 2007 by Opera and has since […]
Bookmarklets are little scripts that are stored as bookmarks in the web browser. The term combines the two words bookmarks and applets. A bookmarklet is made up of JavaScript code that executes […]
What's the main difference between reading comics online and reading physical comic books? Flipping pages usually takes more time online, the speed depends largely on the user's computer and Internet connection speed. […]
The Open Source software jPDF Tweak offers options to manipulate one or multiple pdf documents. Have you ever felt the need to split or merge pdf files, move pages around or add […]
Browser toolbars are sometimes a necessity, especially if they provide functionality that is otherwise not available. The main problem that many users have with toolbars is that they take up a lot […]
It is a bit difficult to explain what the experimental Firefox extension Home Dash does, at least in one sentence. Home Dash removes the Firefox interface, and with interface I mean everything […]
When it comes to searching for information, I prefer results from a handful of trusted websites. Limited the results to select web properties only offers several advantages over the standard catch-all approach […]
The Firefox profile manager is a built-in tool that can be used to create, edit and delete Firefox profiles. Each Firefox profile is independent from each other which means that it can […]
Registry Commander is a free software for Windows that administrators may use instead of the built-in Registry Editor. Most Windows users use the built-in Registry Editor when they need to change settings […]
Gmail is a free ad-supported web-mail service supporting both POP3 and IMAP4 email protocols. It is provided by Google, the company that runs the search engine website of the same name. Gmail […]
Many browser developers have started to fill the new tab page with life, usually a collection of favorite websites but sometimes more than that. The idea is to offer users quicker access […]
Update: Please note that Mozilla has removed the add-on bar in Firefox 29 and newer versions of the browser. You can only get it back by installing add-ons such as Classic Theme […]
Update: Things have changed in the meantime, additional information have been added after the article. The new tab page of the Chrome browser does not display a white page, but links to […]
It's a sad day for search as Yahoo! have announced they're to close the AltaVista search engine. AllThingsDigital report that cutbacks at Yahoo! are responsible for the decision. Other products to be […]
There has been lots of controversy about Firefox's new user interface that will be introduced in the soon to be released version 4 of the web browser. See Firefox 4, How To […]
Project Gutenberg offers one of the largest public domain ebook collections in the world. The website of the project is probably not the easiest to navigate, which is why many users may […]
Some webmasters believe that offering partial feeds of their news entries only in the RSS Feed drives more visitors to their website. While that may be true, it has an adverse effect […]
The history in web browsing terms refers to the group of websites and web services that have been visited previously. Depending on the settings the history can contain the websites that have […]
Nokia phone owners can install the Nokia PC Suite or Nokia Ovi on their computer system to backup the contents of the phone. The backup includes various information including contacts, messages, bookmarks […]
Icons are used in numerous applications both online and offline. Some of the most notable ones are browser favicons that display in the address bar and bookmarks, and program icons that visualize […]
Chrome Toolbox is a new extension for the Chrome web browser that aims to improve a user's productivity in numerous ways. All features of the extension become available after installation. A right-click […]
The history stores information about previously visited websites. Every web browser offers this feature, and the major difference is the way it can be accessed. Firefox users for instance can display the […]
RSS Live Links is a handy Google Chrome extension for users who want access to selected feeds and their updates right in the Chrome browser. The extension adds a new button to […]
Do people still code HTML by hand? Of course they do. And when they do, what tools do they use? Some use a simple text editor like nano or vi. Some prefer […]
One of the nice features of the Google Chrome browser is the auto-suggestion feature of the address bar. The web browser suggests websites once you start typing in the first letter. If […]
Now that was fast. A first alpha release of Opera 11 was released by Opera Software only a few days after the announcement that Opera 11 would get extensions. The new web […]
Favicons are small icons that help identify websites. They are used as a visual representation of a website both in the web browser and at many online services. The three most prominent […]
You sometimes may want to save a web page, either for archiving or reference purposes, or because you like to read the page on another device or at a time without Internet […]
I often encounter interesting looking websites, pages or even links that I have no time to read at that very moment. My usual way of dealing with those links is to add […]
Keywords can be added to bookmarks in the Firefox web browser to open those websites faster by typing the keyword into the Firefox address bar. Other browsers like Opera support keywords as […]
Two major announcements have been made yesterday, and I thought I pack them into one article for your convenience. First, the news that the popular bookmark synchronization service Xmarks will shut down […]
I'm running multiple computer systems for various purposes, for instance a desktop PC and an Acer Aspire 3810T notebook when I'm on the road. As you would expect, I want to have […]
In the seemingly never-ending quest to find the perfect, light weight graphical file manager, I have gone through just about every one I can find. So far my favorite has been Thunar […]
My last article I spoke about the new KDE Activities features Search and Launch Containment Activity (see my article "Using the KDE 4.5 Search and Launch Containment Activity"). This is the first […]
Many Windows users do not know that the operating system offers a flexible shortcut system to start programs but also open websites directly with the keyboard. Those who do often make use […]
You may have heard about a new feature called Tab Sets that has been integrated into the latest developer version of the Firefox web browser. Tab Sets, as the developer call them, […]
How many machines do you have? How many contacts do you have? How many machines do you try to keep your contacts in sync on? There are a lot of ways to […]
It's time to head off to that wonderful land of KDE where the desktop only gets better and better with each release. In fact, a new release should be out now - […]
There are so many Linux distributions out there it's dizzying. Some are simply respins of various base distributions with a different theme or maybe one or two specific applications thrown in for […]
