Category: Internet

Whenever I see something interesting on the Internet I press Ctrl + D to bookmark it and read it later. But this results in having tons of bookmarks under the Firefox bookmarks menu mostly because I never bothered to remove them. The solution for this age old problem is a Firefox extension called Temporary Bookmarks or Tark in short. The Tark extension, as you may have guessed, helps you to create temporary bookmarks in Firefox which will be automatically removed after a period of time.

Like all the other moderns browsers including Firefox and Chrome, Opera has also added support for utilizing GPU for video and animation playback on a webpage. This is called hardware acceleration and is enabled by default. But if you have a low end graphics card then it can make videos play very slow and you may have to disable hardware acceleration. After you have disabled the hardware acceleration, Opera would use software rendering for all web page contents.

Once you start playing a Youtube video, it keeps playing to the end even if you switch to a different window or tab. Would it not be better if the video paused as soon as you switched to another tab and resumed when you returned to the Youtube tab? The Youtube Smart Pause add-on does exactly that in Firefox. It automatically pauses currently playing videos on YouTube once you leave the page and resumes playback as soon as you return.

When you format your hard disk or it gets corrupted by a virus attack or the hard disk just fails to work, then you lose all your Opera web browser settings, including the bookmarks, auto-complete, history and other security settings. But you can create a backup of all your settings using the free zebNet Opera Backup program, so that you can quickly restore from it when needed.

Google Chrome has become the most popular web browser for the new generation. It is fast and offers a huge collection of extensions. It also has very impressive security related features e.g., using alternative desktop so no program can capture your keystrokes. But if you want to be more secure in Chrome browser, then you may want to install the Dr. Web Link Checker extension using which you can check links for malware and other security risks.

Google Chrome has a vast variety of extensions in various categories. As is obvious, they can only be installed in Google Chrome. But now because Opera has changed its web browser rendering engine Blink (which is the same engine used by Google Chrome), you can actually install and use Chrome extensions in the Opera web browser. This way you not only have access to the Opera extensions, but you can also use Chrome extensions in Opera.

OpenDNS is a set of public DNS servers which offer fast domain name resolution and site blocking features. You can configure OpenDNS to block many categories of websites, for example, you can block P2P or adult themed websites at the DNS level. When OpenDNS blocks a website, it shows a webpage with the message about blocking that website. Now you can view that OpenDNS block webpage for any website on the Internet (even the cleaner ones) using the OpenDNS Blocked URL Generator.

If you love listening to FM radio and always wanted to know what FM radio channels in other countries broadcast, then you would be excited to hear about the FM Live program. It is a Windows application using which you can listen to thousands of FM channels all across the world. You can search the FM channels by category (like comedy, news, music etc) or you can sort them by country.

Google Plus is a social networking site. Like any other social networking site, it offers you opportunity to connect with like-minded people and find out how we all can help each other out. It also allows you to block the people who annoy, harass or stalk you on Google plus. But if you have accidentally blocked someone, then it allows you to unblock that person very easily.

The EXIF data (short for, exchangeable image file format) is a special data attached to pictures taken by digital cameras. This metadata can contain information about the camera make and model as well as how, when and where the picture was taken. Usually you need a separate application like IrfanView or ACDSee viewer to have a look at this EXIF metadata, but now now you can view EXIF for any picture right inside your web browser using the iExif add-on for Internet Explorer.