Category: Internet

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.

Everytime you open a video in Youtube, it starts to play in 360p definition or some other SD quality. If you want to watch the video in HD, then you can manually select the video quality from the video window itself. But this is very frustrating to do every time you want to play a video. If you are a Google Chrome user, then you can make use of the Auto HD extension for Chrome. The Auto HD for Youtube extension not only plays the Youtube videos in HD, but also allows you to widen the player.

Everybody knows the painful experience of re-installing Windows, especially when you have to adjust the web browser settings, bookmarks and add-ons all over again. Imagine doing this for all the different web browsers manually. But if you use FavBackup, then you can backup and restore your web browser settings at the click of a button. FavBackup is a free program for Windows that allows you to backup and restore various settings for all the popular web browsers.

Now you can optionally add an extra layer of security by enabling the 2-step verification in Google accounts. After enabling it, you will be required to enter the verification code in addition to the usual username and password. This verification code would be sent to your phone. This means that the potential hacker cannot break into into your Google account even if he knows your password, because they do not have access to your phone.