Category: Internet

Facebook is infested with fake facebook accounts which people create to advertise their products, spam and spread phishing or malicious links. The security company Sophos reports new forms of scams found on Facebook almost everyday on their blog Naked Security. But how do we find if a facebook profile is fake or not? The freeware application FBChecker addresses this question and allows you to check if a Facebook user is bogus or real.

Norton Zone is a free cloud storage service from Symantec. It offers free 5GB data storage for anyone who creates a Norton Zone account. You can use it to share folders and files with friends or family. The Norton Zone client is available for Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and iPad. Norton Zone synchronizes your cloud storage continuously across all the devices that you have connected with a Norton Zone account – making it perfect for project collaboration.

Facebook is the most popular social networking sites. Billions of people use it everyday to connect with each other through comments, pictures and videos. If you also love Facebook, then how about applying some custom themes to make it look pretty? The Facebook Themes Gallery extension for Google Chrome lets you apply themes to your Facebook page instantly. It has many pre-built themes ready for your use.

Life would be so much easier if we all have personal secretaries who would remind us about the forthcoming anniversaries, dates, meetings and so on. But since not everyone can afford a personal secretary, we have to get in the habit of reminding ourselves. And what can be much easier for reminding yourself than to set email reminders using FollowUpThen. It is a free online service using which you can set email and SMS reminders for any time in the future.

The auto-correction feature of software like Microsoft Word corrects all our typing mistakes automatically. But when it comes to typing in facebook, web mail services like Gmail or twitter, we make mistakes so often. But if you are a Chrome, Firefox or Safari user, then you can install the Grammarly Lite extension and have your typings checked for spelling as well as grammatical mistakes. Additionally, it offers definition lookups for all the words on any webpage.

Google offers so many free services but most of us just use very popular Google services like Google search, Gmail, Youtube etc., even though Google offers more than twenty different productive services. If you want to have all the Google services at hand and ready to be used, then you can make use of the Black Menu extension for Google Chrome. The Black Menu extension adds a menu in the Chrome browser giving quick and easy access to all of the Google services.

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.