Category: Internet

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.

If you own a mobile devices (whether mobile phone or a tablet) and use Firefox browser on it, then you can protect the amoled screen of your device by using a free add-on called Safe for Amoled. The amoled screen is a special type of touchscreen that gives bright and rich display for mobile devices. But it can easily burn out if you open websites with white background in your device. The Safe for Amoled add-on automatically dims the background on bright sites, and thus protects your amoled screen.

We have earlier written about the Chrome Eraser application which helps you reset the Chrome configuration data. Now Google has added an option to reset the web browser in the Chrome settings itself. Using the reset option in Chrome, you can reset the Chrome browser settings back to their original default values. It will turn your Chrome browser back to its virgin settings as if you have just installed it.

If you like watching Youtube videos then you know sometimes they take a long time to load and sporadically stop in the middle for a few seconds. But now Youtube has started a Feather project which switches off most of the Youtube features and reduces the amount of bytes downloaded by the browser to make Youtube seem faster in response. You can enable Feather for your Youtube account in order to have a faster Youtube experience.