Category: Internet

When you open a website, your presence on that website is also logged by hundreds of other websites like facebook, twitter, google and so on. Disconnect is a free extension for Firefox and Chrome browsers that can virtually disconnect you from such social networking sites when you are browsing the internet. It works by blocking the connection requests to the known servers of the social networking and other tracking sites.

Most of the Gmail users do not use an email client like Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook to check their email messages regularly. Nearly all of us just check the Gmail webmail site for new email messages. If we could see the new messages notifications right inside the web browser that we use everyday, then it would be much more convenient. The Gmail Notifier extension for Firefox does exactly that. It shows new email notifications for your Gmail account in the Firefox toolbar.

When we type in a text field on a website, the only spelling correction service available is the offline dictionary of the web browser. This dictionary is very limited and does not give very good spelling correction. If you want a better spelling correction service, then you can enable the spelling error resolution service in the Google Chrome browser. It is the same correction service used by the Google search website itself.

Earlier you had to enter only your user name and password to sign in to your Microsoft account. But now you have an option to enable two step verification which hardens the security for your Microsoft accounts. If you have enabled the two step verification for your account, then you would have to enter a security code sent to your mobile phone, in addition to your username and password. This makes it very hard for a hacker to break into your account.

Earlier this month, Firefox made changes so that you can open both types of windows at the same. The private mode window shows a purple colored Firefox button on the top-left. But now you can open the private mode and regular mode side-by-side in different tabs in the same window using the Private Tab extension for Firefox. This makes it very convenient to use the private mode inside Firefox. You do not have to switch from one window to another.

Have you ever wondered about the geographical location of a website? Whether the web site that you are browsing is from Japan, Canada or USA or some other place? Typically, you can find out IP address of website and then do a geo IP location search but that is a tedious process. Thanks to the Flagfox add-on for Firefox, now you can view the flag of the country where a web site is hosted right inside the location bar in the Firefox browser.

We spend so much time online everyday, contributing to chunks of data through emails, chats, blog posts and social networking, without bothering about what would happen to our online accounts after we die in the real world. Google has come up with a unique option in form of Inactive Account Manager that lets you manage what to do with your online accounts and data after you have not accessed it for a long time.

Microsoft Silverlight based web applications can use application storage for many purposes. They can store small data files (like custom settings), and large files for applications that have graphically intensive features (like games, maps, and images). Silverlight based applications can also use application storage for saving user-generated content. If you want, you can delete this application storage.

Late to the party, but Bing search has finally added time based search filter. Other search engines like Yahoo! and Google already have this feature for some time. You can use this filter to sort the search results by time duration or time period. For example, you want to look up for flu virus news in last one week, then you can simply set the filter to show the results of articles and news updated in last 7 days only; older news items will not be shown.

Starting with Firefox version 20, this popular browser from Mozilla is showing a new type of download manager. The new download manager is being called download panel. The download panel shows up as an icon next to the Firefox address bar and you can click on it to see the downloading progress. But if you do not like this new download panel, then you can easily restore the older style of download manager in Firefox.