Category: Internet

How many times you walk out of your home only to pause and think about why did you get out of your home? If you often find yourself forgetting about the everyday tasks and keep coming home without buying one or more items in the groceries, then Any.do would be highly useful for you. Any.do is a mobile app and Chrome extension that works as a to-do list and reminder accessible from anywhere on the internet.

Avira Secure Backup is a cloud file storage solution from Avira – the makers of the world renown Avira Antivirus. It is an easy-to-use online cloud storage solution for preserving your valuable information. It integrates into Windows File Explorer and allows you to access your files on the cloud as if you are accessing another disk. The free account on Avira Secure Backup gives you 5GB of free storage, but you can buy more space if needed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.