Category: Internet

Social networking websites like Facebook offer your free of charge service to network with your friends. They make profit from their services by displaying advertisements to the users. Unlike the forced ads of Facebook, Twitter is very modest in displaying ads as you have to give permission to them before you start seeing custom tailored advertisements or as they put it – the promoted content. If you do not want to see this promoted content in your Twitter usage, then you can disable it.

Google Plus is a social network that has taken up its place next to Facebook. Everyone who has a Google account of some sort, automatically gets a Google plus account. Thanks to the popularity of the Android devices, through which millions of users have Google plus accounts. But one problem often seen in Google+, just like any other social media, is that some people start annoying you non-stop. If you ever encounter such people on Google+, then you can just block them.

If you have forgotten login passwords to your favorite sites, then there is nothing to worry about. You can still recover the passwords stored in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. There is a freeware tool called PasswordFox that lets you view the the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox Web browser. You can view the passwords stored in your default Firefox profile as well as other user profiles.

Mozilla Firefox web browser keeps updating itself as soon as a new stable version is released. This is a very good feature of Firefox as you do not have to manually update the web browser. Having an always up-to-date web browser is one of the essential steps towards online security. If you want to see how many times your Firefox web browser has been updated after the installation, then Firefox provides an easy option for that too.

Unicode is a system that assigns a unique number for every printable character in different languages of the world. Typically in Windows, you press the the Alt key and press the Unicode number of a character on the numpad in order to type it. But this means that you either have to remember all the characters or you have to consult a chart of Unicode characters. Now you can use the Fun Characters add-on for Firefox using which you can type the funny character quickly in any text field.

There is a news that the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States has been monitoring users activities through a secret collaboration with many websites like Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and so on. This spy project is code-named PRISM. But how do you find if a website is involved in the PRISM project? Thanks to the a Firefox add-on called Dark Side of the Prism, now you can be notified if you are visiting such a PRISM participating website

Some of the websites use javascript tricks to prevent users from right-clicking on their pages. If you right-click on such websites, then either nothing happens or you see a message telling you you that right-clicking is not allowed. This is very annoying as sometimes you want to right-click on an image to download it, but the website has blocked all the right-clicking. Thanks to the RightToClick add-on for Firefox using which you can enable the right-click function in all the websites.

How would you know if someone has got hold of your Google account password and is secretly signing-in to your Gmail account to read your emails? Thanks to the new feature Google Account Activity added by Google, now you can easily view your Google account activity which displays various details like where you logged in from, the browser and operating system used, the IP address of the user and so on.

If your favorite sports-person is playing and your cable TV is not showing the sports match, what would you do? What if you are away from home or not near a TV? Instead of grinding your teeth and smashing your fists, you can choose to watch live sports streaming for free. The website LiveScoreHunter streams live video streams of currently being played matched. You can watch matches in all sports category – be it tennis, baseball, hockey or football.

Everyday millions of commuters use subways (also called Metro trains) all around the world. In some countries, subways have been working for more than 80 years but in other countries subways are still being constructed. If you plan to visit a new city, then you must check out its subways as this is the fastest and affordable way to travel within a city. The freeware app called qMetro can help you navigate the maps of dozens of cities all around the world.