Category: Internet

Youtube is a great place to share and watch your videos. Youtube hosts videos from all over the world, but sometimes you want to watch the videos from local places near you. Youtube provides no way to search for videos based on their geographical locations, so you cannot search for videos from places near you using its search feature. But you can use a third party tool called Youtube Videos Near Me, which allows you to look for the videos uploaded by people near your area.

Pause for Later browser extension allows you to pause any video on youtube, vimeo and many other video sites in the middle so that you can resume it later at any comfortable time. This extension is available for the Firefox and the Chrome browsers, while a bookmarklet is available for others. Using of this extension requires you to create a free Pause for Later account so that your paused videos would be stored to your own account.

Everytime you open a webpage that uses some plugin that you have not installed in Firefox, it shows a missing plugin information bar (or infobar in short). Suppose you open a site with a Java IRC chat client, then you would see the missing plugin infobar if you do not have Oracle Java installed on your system. If you know that you do not want anymore plugins and do not want this information bar to appear everytime you open such a webpage, then you can disable this information bar.

DreamMail is a professional email client that supports multiple users and multiple email accounts. It is a very nice email client and can be thought of as a very good alternative to Microsoft Outlook Express. It has all the expected features like multi-accounts supports, address book and a great message editor.It also comes with a unique webmail feature that allows you to access your webmail accounts (Yahoo, Gmail etc.) directly from the program without the need to use POP3 access.

The Google black bar is the black colored navigation bar shown on top on most of the Google websites like Google search, Gmail etc. This navigation bar contains shortcuts to various other Google services and makes it easy for you to hop across Google sites. This navigation bar is fixed and you cannot rearrange its various shortcuts or options. But if you are a Google Chrome browser user, then you can use the Big G Black Bar Sorter extension to rearrange the shortcuts in the black bar.

Chrome actually create a separate process for all these tabs so that the resources of one tab do not affect others. This is very useful as it prevents the hanging of the browser due to some rendering problem in a tab. But opening multiple processes corresponding to various tabs in Chrome might end up in using lots of your system memory. If you are concerned about tabs in Chrome hogging your memory, then you use the TabMemFree extension for Chrome to automatically park such idle tabs.

The BitTorrent protocol has revolutionized the way we download and share files over the internet. Thanks to the bit-torrent protocol, now we can share the network load among the people interested in downloading the files without the necessity of a central download server. If you use the Chrome browser, then you can download the contents of a torrent file just like any other ordinary file using the One Click Download extension.

There are millions of websites and their number is going to increase even more as more internet users start their own websites. The problem with so many domain names is that when you search for a keyword in Google search, you often get poor quality results and domains that you are not interested in. Thanks to Google engineers who have designed the Personal Blocklist extension for Chrome – now you can block undesired domains from Google search results so they will not appear again.

Today we have tons of cloud storage services which are great for backing up the files on your hard disk to cloud storage as well as syncing them. But what if you want to backup an online item (like an image, PDF file, ZIP file etc. available on a site) to cloud storage? There is an extension called Cloud Save for Chrome browser, that lets you backup a file directly to your cloud storage service without any need of downloading them first.