Category: Internet

Unlike the website and email addresses, the telephone numbers are not clickable. How much easier your life would be if these telephone numbers were clickable, so that you could click on them and automatically dial them in an application like Skype or Netmeeting. Thanks to Telify addon for Firefox, this is now possible. Telify recognizes phone numbers on web pages and in email messages and converts them to clickable links.

We have recently written about OmniDrive which lets you search Google Drive. But what about your other online accounts? Cloud Magic a free service that helps you search many of your online accounts like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Evernote, etc. through one simple search box. So now you do not have to login to many different accounts and search each one individually, but now you can just login to Cloud Magic and search all your accounts from the same place.

Google Drive is an online cloud storage service from Google which allows you to store up to 5 gigabytes of data for free. Google also offers free Google Drive Client software for Windows and Mac which allows you to manage your files on the Google Drive. But if you want to quickly search Google Drive for files, then you can use OmniDrive extension. It is a Chrome extension that adds support to the omnibar to search in Google Drive.

There are many media players like Windows Media Player and Winamp which use shoutcast to populate the available internet radio channels. You can listen to many different genre of radio channels in them. But if you just want to listen to online radio, then these media players can be overwhelming. If you just want to listen to online radio, then Radio Sure is an ideal program for Windows users. It allows you to search, bookmark and listen to a variety of online radio stations.

Web browser developers are giving options of disable tracking in these sites. Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer had already included options for a do-not-track feature. Now the new version of Google Chrome has also come up a do-not-track feature by enabling which you tell websites that you do not want to be tracked. However websites are free to honor or ignore this request. Most of the sites honor this setting in a user’s web browser.

When you search for something on Google Search, it presents you with a search results page where all the results are listed. If you click on any of the search results, it redirects first to Google and then to the intended webpage. Google does this to track your browsing behavior and tracks your clicks. But if you do not want to be tracked by Google in this way, then you can use a Firefox add-on that would change all the links on the search results page to actual webpage links.

When you download files using Mozilla Firefox and all the downloads are finished, Mozilla Firefox still continues to show the download manager window which can be very annoying if you download small files very often and have to close the download manager window over and over again. Fortunately, Firefox allows you to set the download manager window to close automatically as soon as all of your downloads are completed.

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.

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.

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.