Category: Internet

If you want to visit websites but want to remain completely anonymous, then you can make use of the AnonymoX addon for the Firefox web browser. This addons lets you change your IP address (which in turn spoofs your country and city location), visit blocked or censored websites and delete cookies that can be used to track your identity across different IP addresses.

Starting with Firefox version 21, the popular web browser now supports playing of the MP3, MP4 and other media files that use the AAC or H.264 codecs. So if you now click on an MP3 file link, Firefox would start to play it inside a new tab. This can be frustrating if you just want to download the MP3 or MP4 files to your hard disk. Good thing is that you can easily disable the in-built media player in Firefox and revert back to the older Firefox behavior.

The two step login verification system in Twitter is a security enhancement feature using which you can reduce the chances of your Twitter account getting hacked. If you have enabled the login verification in Twitter settings, then it would ask you a security code sent to your mobile phone in addition to your username and password for you to login to Twitter. But what if your mobile phone stops working, your SIM card gets damaged or even worse – your mobile phone gets stolen?

Twitter has become one of most popular microblogging services. You can use it through its website in your web browser, through smartphone apps and through SMS (text messages). For using Twitter through your text messages, you need to add your mobile number to your Twitter account. But if later you lose your mobile phone or change your mobile phone number, then you would have to remove the phone number from your Twitter account before you can add a new one.

Twitter has added new options to enable two step login verification for signing on to your Twitter account. Two step login verification involves entering your usual login username and password, in addition to entering a secret code sent to your registered mobile phone number. This way only you, who possess the mobile phone, can sign on to your account. Even if hackers steal your username and password, they will not be able to sign on to your account because they do not have your mobile phone.

Twitter is a very popular micro-blogging service and everyone is loving it. If you do not want to miss on Twitter tweet updates while away from your computer, you can attach you mobile phone with your Twitter account. This way you would be able to receive latest Twitter tweets in form of SMS (text messages) on your mobile wherever you are.

When you find an interesting website, TrishTech.com for instance, you add it to your bookmarks list so that you can visit it later easily without having to look for it. But sometimes we bookmark a website more than once, without realizing it. This results in having the same website bookmarked under different categories multiple times. If you want to remove the duplicate bookmark entries, then you can can make use of the Bookmarks Deduplicator plugin for Firefox.

Starting with version 21 of Firefox web browser, Mozilla has introduced a new Health Report feature. This health report shows you the health of your web browser, for example, how many plugins and extensions are enabled, how many links you have bookmarked, for how long you have been running Firefox etc. By default, Firefox shares all this data of yours with Mozilla. If you want to disable the data sharing of health report feature in Firefox, then you can follow these steps.

Most of the websites today use the Adobe Flash content in one way or another. This is why cyber-criminals always keep trying to make use of the vulnerabilities in the outdated versions of Adobe Flash player. To stay safe and secure on the internet, you should keep your Adobe Flash player updated. You can do this by using the freeware application Alternative Flash Player Auto-Updater which allows you to both automatically install latest versions of Adobe Flash player.