Category: Internet

Sometimes when you run certain programs or install a new software, you may want to turn off the internet temporarily. If you are using the native Windows firewall, then there is no option to block all the internet activity for some time. All you can do is either pull the ethernet cable, switch off your router or disable NIC card in Windows. But now InternetOff, a free tiny utility for Windows, makes it possible to quickly turn off the internet in Windows.

Everybody has a facebook page these days to share messages, pictures and videos with friends and family. But facebook like every other place is full of annoying people who take pleasure in giving you trouble of all sorts. The best way to deal with these annoying persons is to block them. Here is how you can block an annoying person on facebook.

Earlier we covered how you can block an annoying person from contacting you or seeing your facebook page. This is a great way to get rid of those peeping Toms. But what if you later decide to unblock a person you have blocked? Facebook has already thought of that and have provided a way to unblock a person. But you cannot re-block a person who you have unblocked for next 48 hours.

Google is the most widely used search engine on the planet. But sometimes when you search for something, it shows certain websites with low quality information or web pages with misguided titles and so on. For example, if you search for mobile games, you may see lots of websites offering illegal downloads and files containing non-functional games. Good thing is that Google allows you to block unwanted sites from your search results.

Are you bored? Do you wanna make some noise? If you nodded yes to both of these questions, then its time you start using the Fun Switcher site. Fun Switcher is a fabulous website that allows you to make a mixture of different sounds and create a crazy mix of your own. There are hundreds of sounds ranging from bells and songs to TV shows and cartoons.

Most people today go for an unlimited internet plan, as it allows you to download unlimited amount of data from the internet. But some people, who do not have unlimited internet plan, should watch out for any unnecessary downloads and monitor their bandwidth. The Freemeter Bandwidth Monitor is a free software for Windows that can help you how much data you are downloading from the internet. It shows the bytes being downloaded and uploaded from your computer in a graphical format.

All the modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome have an auto-update feature and they keep updating themselves automatically whenever an update is available. Basically this involves the downloading of the new setup file and installing it in the background. But sometimes the Firefox update does not work because the installer fails to run properly and hangs up. If you cannot install or update Firefox normally using its setup installer, then you can update it manually.

Google Chrome is the fastest web browser on this planet. Part of this fastness comes from its ability to prefetch the domain name resolutions for the most visited domains names. The DNS service is how a domain name like trishtech.com are resolved into the IP address like 73.254.28.37. Google Chrome saves the time to resolve the domain names into respective IP addresses by prefetching the most common domain names and storing them in the Host Resolver Cache.

If you have ever downloaded something in Google Chrome web browser, then you know that it shows a download bar near the bottom edge of the browser window. All the files that you have ever downloaded are shown in this download bar. These downloads are not automatically cleared by the Google Chrome browser. Unlike Mozilla Firefox, there is no easily visible method to clear the downloaded files list either. But you can clear the downloaded files history from the downloads page.