Category: Internet

PrintPunk is a great tool for Internet Explorer and all the browsers based on the Internet Explorer engine (like Maxthon or Avant browsers). It enhances the printing functionality for Microsoft Internet Explorer. It allows you to shrink or zoom the webpages prior to printing. You can save your printer paper by reducing the number of pages using PrintPunk.

When the Matrix series of movies ended, I found myself very excited and wondered if there are more movies like this. But finding movies of similar type is a harder task than one can imagine. The IMDB and Google certainly help but not so much. This is when I found out about Metataste – an online app that recommends you movies based on your favorite movies. You have to tell a few of your favorite movies and it would then show a list of similar movies that you might be interested in.

There are thousands of popular sites where you have to click on the Next or Siguiente links to go to the next page. If you are tired of clicking on Next in such websites, then AutoPager is the addon for you. AutoPager is a browser extension which loads the next page automatically which you can view by just scrolling down in your browser window.

MondoClub is a fun place where you can chat with other online people and watch them perform over the webcam. The people who stay on the webcam are called Starz and are paid hourly for their performance. The people who chat without a webcam with Starz are called Clubberz. The Starz can do anything they want on the webcam like play music, sing songs, teach something, draw cartoons or just talk about something.

If you have installed multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera), it is not easy to go through the history of each web browser. The free MiTec Internet History Browser can make your task easy if you have to lookup the history of multiple web browsers. It displays the web browsing history of all the installed browsers in one place making it very easy for you to search for a previously opened website.

KDE Marble is an open source project for Windows, Linux, Mac and other smartphone platforms. It features a virtual globe and world atlas (similar to Google Earth) where you can explore whole world to the street level. It is developed by the KDE open source community. You can choose from different map styles, including Atlas, Plain, Precipitation Map, Satellite (terrain), Open Street Map, Earth at Night and others. It allows you to choose even other celestial bodies like Moon etc.

The Chrome browser has a nice status bar which automatically hides when it has done displaying all the information like downloading webpage, opening website etc. But the statusbar of Firefox is static and stays visible all the time. If you want the statusbar of Firefox to imitate the auto-hide feature of its Chrome counterpart, then you can use the Pimpoflage add-on. Pimpoflage creates a customizable auto hide function for both the top and bottom bars in firefox in windowed and fullscreen modes.

Google has come up with a new extension for Chrome browser called Save to Drive. This extension allows you to save just about any file to your Google Drive account. You can save not only offline by online files directly to your Google Drive account. Using this extension, you can save pictures on a webpage, entire webpage, captured screenshot of a webpage etc. to your Google Drive storage.

Google Chrome has a security feature that does not allow you to run any outdated plugins inside it. Usually this feature enhances your browser security and keeps you safer on the internet. But sometimes when you really have to use a plugin that has not been updated for a while, it can be a nuisance. Luckily, you can give a special command to run Chrome in order to deactivate this feature temporarily.

BloodyVikings is an excellent add-on for Firefox that simplifies the generation and use of a disposable email address. It supports a large number of disposable email address services including 10 Minute Mail, Mailinator, TrashMail, Anonbox, Yopmail, FakeMailGenerator, Mailcatch, Squizzy, SpamAvert, Mailforspam, Koszmail and more.