Category: Internet

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.

Last week, my little niece said that she could not view her picture on school website. Apparently, that website had made a GIF animation image from all the student pictures and the animation speed was so fast that you could not really look at any single picture clearly. After some searching around, I found GIF Scrubber, an extension for Google Chrome which can control the playback speed of GIF image files, pause the animation and allows you to extract the separate images from frames as well.

Many times we get audio files that we cannot open because we do not have a supporting program. For example, you get an OGG file but it cannot be played in your MP3 player. In these cases, we can convert the file formats to the ones we can play easily. You can use the free online app called Switchr to convert audio files to a different format. You can also adjust the bit rate, sampling rate and duration of the converted file.

It was sunny weather a few hours ago and as soon as my friend stepped out, it started to rain. Again and again, events like this make us watch the weather forecast on TV or the internet before we step out. But a better alternative is to use the WeatherBug Weather Window app in the Google Chrome browser. This app allows you to view your current weather and get the latest local current conditions, forecasts, Doppler radar and severe weather alerts.

Remember how in the old times we used to collect cuttings from newspapers and magazines. Times have changed and now we are using the internet for information more than the books, newspapers or magazine. But you can still save notes, memes and other types of data from websites using the Papercuts extension for Google Chrome web browser. It allows you to save notes and reminders in Google Chrome and you can sync your saved data across many devices or computers too.

Twitter has become very popular specially in the younger generation. With this much tweeting in daily life, you end up having a large number of tweets. Some of these tweets can be personal and very valuable to you. For example, the tweets that your friends sent to you when you graduated or when your first baby was born. To save all these tweets on your local hard disk, you can download all of your Twitter archive from Twitter.

When it comes to broadcasting your web cam over the network, we usually think of bulky software like Skype. But you can put your webcam on the network by using a very simple, small and free tool called IPCamera. It is a very small portable program created by Gmax. The download size of this portable program is less than 1 megabytes and it is able to broadcast the video in HD format.

Sometimes you come across an interesting website, but you do not have the time to read it. You can bookmark that page in your web browser, but this way the page gets bookmarked only in that browser. You cannot access that bookmark from your work or any other place. If you use the Pocket extension for your web browser, then you can save any webpage to be viewed later. The pages are saved in your Pocket account, so you can access them from any device or browser.

Firefox extensions setup their preferences in the prefs.js file. Even after you remove that extension from Firefox, some of the preferences are left behind and make the preferences file bulkier with time. A larger prefs.js file can make Firefox load slower and impact the overall performance of the web browser. But now you can use the eCleaner extension for Firefox to get rid of the left behind preference entries from Firefox.

Internet has made it easy to buy videos, movies, and other media online. Some of this media uses Adobe Flash technology so that it can be viewed by only those persons who have bought it. When you purchase such media online, the selling sites store authorization data in your PC which is used to view the purchased movies and videos. If you are selling or giving away your PC, you should deauthorize your PC so that the new owner of your PC cannot watch your purchased media.