Category: Internet

Create a Backup of Tweets using TweetBackup

If you are a very creative tweeter (a person who posts tweets on twitter), then you would want to create a backup of your tweets. The backup would be your own personal archive of what your tweet. You can have this archive published as a book and gift it to your grandchildren. Or you can look at your tweets years later and smile. Here is how you can create a backup of your tweets for free using TweetBackup.

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Create a Disposable Link for Your Phone Number Using Babble.ly

Many times you have to give your phone number to people you do not know personally. This is always risky as you do not know what kind of person you are giving your phone number to. For example, you want to be listed in Craiglist but do not want to expose your personal phone number to thousands of stalkers. For these situations, you can create a disposable web link for your phone number using the Babble.ly service.

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Increase Number of Simultaneous Downloads in Internet Explorer

Microsoft Internet Explorer limits the simultaneous downloads to only two at a time by default. So if you try to download more than two files from the same website, you can download only two files at the same time – more downloads start only after first ones have finished downloading. This is true for all version of Internet Explorer from versions 7 to 9. But you can increase the number of simultaneous downloads in Internet Explorer by doing a Registry hack.

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Disable Search Direct in Yahoo Search

The Search Direct feature from Yahoo! is Yahoo’s answer for Google’s instant search. You type a search phrase and results are displayed without your needing to hit the Enter key. This can be very useful but some of us do not really need this. If you are the one who likes the old way of hitting the Enter key on your keyboard for getting the results from the Yahoo! search, then you can disable the Search Direct feature.

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Change the Color and Label for Orange Button in Firefox 4

The Firefox browser has undergone a complete design change and in the version 4 it shows a orange colored button on the top-left. This orange colored button is labeled Firefox and when you click on it the menu appears. Some people do not like the orange color of this button. If you do not like the orange color of this button, when with a little workaround you can change not only its color but also its label as you wish.

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Show Menu Bar in Firefox 4

Mozilla Firefox version 4 has gone a complete makeover. It does not show any menu bar by default, tabs are shown on top (above the location bar) and the menu is accessibly only through the top-left orange Firefox button. If you want to make the menu-bar visible in Mozilla Firefox 4, you can follow these easy instructions :

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Copy Unformatted Text in Google Chrome

When you have to copy – paste something from a webpage without all the fonts, colors and images into an editor like MS Word, you first copy and paste it in Notepad so it loses all the HTML formatting. Then you copy it from Notepad and into MS Word. But this is time consuming and tiresome. If you are a Google Chrome user, then you are in luck. You can use the Copy Without Formatting extension for Chrome browser to copy unformatted text right from a webpage.

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Print Webpages Without Crap Using Print Friendly

Websites are designed in a user friendly fashion with sidebars, menus, advertisements, related links etc. If you try to print a useful webpage, all of this un-needed information also gets printed. Not only the printout looks bad, but this is also a waste of the printing ink and the paper. You can now print any webpage with a nice print friendly format using the Print Friendly service.

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Find How Much it Takes to Print Your Twitter Timeline

Twitter is the popular microblogging web site that everyone is using these days from teenagers to celebrities. If you are tweeting for a while, have you ever wondered how long it would take to print your entire twitter timeline, how much paper is needed to print all of your tweets etc. Well, you can get an estimate without actually printing using the the Print Effect web site.

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