Category: Internet

The Russian search engine Yandex is following the footsteps of Google by offering a new cloud storage service called Yandex Disk. It is similar to Google Drive and offers 10 GB of free cloud storage space upon sign up. The sign up, like in Google, is absolutely free. In addition, you can download the Yandex Disk client program for Windows and other platforms and integrate it with your operating system or mobile device.

EarthVPN is a fast, reliable and very affordable VPN service that can be used in many platforms like Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS and more. If you feel like your privacy is being infiltrated then you can use a VPN service like EarthVPN. Using a VPN service hides your IP address, gives you a new identity over the internet and allows you to surf the internet anonymously as if you are in a different geographical location.

Internet Explorer has been using different zones for a very long time to separate risky sites from safer sites. There are different zones for trusted sites, restricted sites, intranet and more. All these zones have settings specially tailored to suit the security requirements for these different types of web sites. Usually most of us are not aware of these zones, but now you can use the IEZoneAnalyzer to view, analyze and compare your Internet Explorer zone settings.

Some media rich sites force us to print all those colors and images. This not only makes the printing slower, but it also results in waste of costly printer ink. Thanks to the free LiteRider7 add-on for Firefox, now you can quickly disable javascript, images and the backgrounds on a webpage. This is great for the people who want to take the printout of heavy loaded webpages or just want to load the websites quickly without loading any of the unnecessary images.

Javascript is one of the basic building blocks of websites. It can make the webpages dynamic and add many features using javascript libraries like jQuery or Mootools. But some websites make use of javascript to prevent users from right-clicking, showing annoying popups or load the images in the background. If you feel perturbed by these sort of websites, then you can quickly switch off javascript on those webpages using the Quick Javascript Switcher.

There are more and more reasons why we should stay anonymous on the Internet. Recent news about NSA spying on user activities through secret collaboration with major corporations is one of them. If you want to stay anonymous online, then you can use the ZenMate extension for Chrome. It works on the basic principles of a VPN. It redirects your Internet traffic through their servers, thus giving you a new virtual IP address and keeping your online activities anonymous.

Twitter is a great way to interact with your family, friends and also other like-minded people. Many professionals use Twitter to connect with their clients everyday. But just like any other social networking website, Twitter is also infested with people who make your life miserable, in general by posting clich

Some websites create their webpages with very small font size which makes it very hard to read the text. Also if you have eye sight problem, then you may not really love to read the small font text. In both of these cases, you may enforce a minimum font size limit on the websites so that they cannot use a font size smaller than the one you have specified. This can be done easily using the No Small Text add-on in Firefox.

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.