Category: Internet

If you are using Firefox on a shared computer, then the obvious question comes to mind what of other people change your Firefox settings. There are many solutions to this problem like using different user accounts in Windows, using a portable Firefox version or much simpler – just use the Public Fox browser extension. The Public Fox browser extension locks down your Firefox settings, downloads and bookmarks from unauthenticated modifications.

Sometimes we accidentally delete an email message in Thunderbird e-mail client, only to realize moments later that it was an important email. If your email service allows only POP3 connection, then the email you have deleted is lost – specially if you have configured Thunderbird to delete email messages from remote folders. But there is an easy way to recover deleted email messages in Thunderbird using only a text editor.

Sometimes when you install a software downloaded from the internet, it ends up installing a toolbar or add-on in your Firefox browser – resulting in hijacked search results. Some toolbar software are so badly programmed that even after you remove them from Firefox, they leave behind the changed settings and your search results in Firefox are still affected. You can follow the following steps to rest your search settings in Firefox.

Twitter, the social networking and microblogging website, has come up with options to report abusive tweets and abusive users. These options have been added after recent heavy abuse of Twitter by some users who sent threatening tweets to some of the celebrities in the UK. Using these reporting options, you can easily report an individual tweet as well as a person sending you spam, threatening or unwanted tweets.

QR code is a nice way to embed text, website links and images into a machine readable code. The QR codes can be easily decoded using a compatible app in your smartphone. The Android and iOS based mobile devices come with an in-built QR code reader. If you are a Firefox user and you want to create your own QR codes, then you can turn any selectable image, link or text into QR code using the free Firefox extension called QrCodeR.

Usually you send an email to someone and then wait for their response, checking your inbox everyday for their response. Sometime we get so anxious and desperate that we lose our sleep over it. The question whether the recipient has opened our email or not, inundates our mind. But now you can keep your mind at rest using the free extension for the Chrome browser. It can tell you if the recipients have opened and read the email, the instant they open it.

Before you can start enjoying the videos on Youtube, you are forced to install Adobe Flash on your computer. But now Youtube has adopted to the new HTML5 video standard and you no longer have to depend on Adobe Flash to watch videos on Youtube. If you are a Firefox user, then you can use the browser extension named Youtube All HTML5 to watch all the Youtube videos in HTML5 format instead of the Flash.

If you wanted to create an icon for your application or for your website, then usually you have to delve into an advanced application like Adobe Photoshop. But now you can create high quality Adobe CS5 and Web 2.0 style icons easily with a few clicks through the Icon Generator web application. It allows you to type in the text and choose background color for the icon and rest is handled automatically.

If you want to create a picture gallery from the pictures you took on your vacations, anniversaries, birthdays, parties and other occasions, then you can use the free Juicebox gallery maker. Juicebox can create picture galleries which are easy to navigate and can be opened on any platform like Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone and so on. It supports latest versions of HTML and Javascript helping you create eye catching photo galleries.