Category: Internet

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.

Dropbox is a freemium cloud service that provides integrated file synchronization, backup and sharing. It offers free cloud storage of two gigabytes and you can pay for more space in case your needs cross the two gigabytes limit. You can use the Dropbox service through a web browser or through a platform specific client. The Dropbox client is available for all the major platforms like Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry etc.

Dropbox is the popular cloud file storage service that offers 2GB of free cloud space for every user who signs up with them. It is great cloud service that lets you access your files, pictures, videos, documents from anywhere in the world. You can also share large files with friends and families. Now Yahoo! Mail has the Dropbox plug-in built inside their web mail interface, so that you can upload files to your Dropbox account and share the links through email messages.

The internet is full of knowledge but unfortunately most of it is available in the text form. You have to read it all if you want to gain your knowledge. But reading so much is not so healthy for your eyes. You can relax your eyes and start listening to webpages instead of reading them by using the free SpeakIt extension for the Google Chrome web browser. This extension converts text into speech and reads it out loud for your listening pleasure.