Category: Internet

How to Locate Lost Mobile Phone Through Internet

Many times we forget where we put our mobile phones last time and then the search spree starts. We look for the mobile phones everywhere but it seems to be nowhere. One good old trick to locate your lost phone is to call your own number and hear the mobile phone ringing. But what if you do not have a second phone to call your mobile phone? This is where the online service WhereIsMyCellphone.com comes handy. You can locate your lost mobile phone using this online service easily.

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Auslogics Browser Care : Manage Browser Extensions, Home Page and Toolbars

When you install some of the downloaded software, they silently install browser extensions and toolbars in your computer. After some time, you find your web browsers full of multiple toolbars and extensions that you rarely use. You can manage these toolbars, extensions and home page settings for all the major web browsers using the free Auslogics Browser Care. It can also clean up your browser cache, improve their performance and keep them well-maintained.

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TimeRabbit : Find Time Spent on Facebook

Facebook has become the number one time waster on the Internet. People use it not only from a PC web browser, but also from mobile devices throughout the day. But have you ever thought about how much time you actually spend everyday, every week or every month on this popular social networking site? A free Windows application called TimeRabbit can help you find out how much time you really spend on Facebook.

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Enable Do Not Track in Thunderbird

When you open email messages in Mozilla Thunderbird, they may contain embedded HTML web content. Opening of this HTML content is same as opening a webpage in a web browser. This means that some of servers hosting this HTML content may track your online behavior. Fortunately, Mozilla Thunderbird allows you to enable the do-not-track feature which sends a request to all the servers not to track your online activity.

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How to Change User Agent String in Internet Explorer

Some web sites display differently depending on which web browser you are using to access them. Similarly, some websites are designed specifically for a particular browser and they display properly only on that web browser. If you are an Internet Explorer user, then you can easily change the user agent string and fool the website into believing that you are using a different web browser.

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How to Schedule Email Cleanup in Outlook.com Webmail

The Outlook.com webmail service, that has replaced previous email services from Microsoft, offers a great many number of ways to keep your Inbox clutter free, organized and clean. One of the features in Outlook.com is the cleanup scheduling of the messages so that messages from a specific sender are automatically moved or deleted after a preset number of days. This works great for newsletter or notification email messages, as you can auto-delete them after a month.

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Disable Notification to install Flash in Firefox

If you have not installed Adobe Flash (perhaps because you do not need it) and you visit a website containing Flash animation or movies, then Firefox notifies you to install Flash. This notification may be useful for those who would want to install Flash, but it is very annoying if you wish to stay away from Flash and just want to use HTML5 media. If you do not like this notification in Firefox, then you can easily disable it.

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Bring Back Ability to Disable JavaScript in Firefox

Recently, I wanted to disable JavaScript on a website in Firefox. To my intense surprise, I found out that the feature to disable JavaScript has been removed from Firefox 23 and above. This is very much undesirable. After some research I found out an add-on called SettingSanity that can add this feature back in Firefox. The SettingSanity extension adds the options to disable images, tab bar and JavaScript back in the Firefox Options window.

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Run Two or More Versions of Firefox At the Same Time

The development phase of Firefox involves four stages – nightly, pre-beta (aurora), beta and the final release version. Some people, including me, are always using the nightly version (together with the release version) to check what new features are being added in the upcoming releases. Usually you cannot run more than one version of Firefox at the same time. But there is an easy way through which you can run two or more versions of Firefox simultaneously.

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Quickly Take Your Picture with Webcam and Share Online

If you have a webcam attached to you PC, then you can use it to snap and share your pictures online. But sometimes you are in a hurry and do not want to go through the webcam software and uploading of the pictures taken. In those times, you can use the free online app Take Picture Online to take your pictures online through your webcam, upload and share them with your Facebook or twitter friends.

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