Category: Internet

If you are a smart internet user, then you know the importance of having some sort of online storage space. If you keep your data on an online storage, then it not only keeps your data safe but also lets you access it from multiple places like your home or office. You can sign up for any free online storage provider to start with. Recently, Comodo has also joined the competition of online storage solution providers by starting to offer a free 5GB online cloud storage space.

Tunatic is another music identification application which also can be used to identify a song or music currently being played. It can collect the data by listening to the music, sends it to the Tunatic server and may show you some information to identify the song. While Audiggle uses the popular Gracenote service to identify songs, Tunatic seems to use its own database for identification.

Some websites have hidden elements in them that help them track your web browsing habits. This is considered a privacy issue as it reveals what type of sites you browse to these tracking companies. The Ghostery browser extension boasts to help block these tracking elements. Ghostery is a browser add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome. It can show you the tracking elements like cookies on a website and allows you to block them if you want.

Mozilla Firefox allows you to manage website permissions easily. You can allow or disallow one or more websites to store cookies, offline data, store passwords, open popups or ask for your geographical location. You can set these permissions either for a particular website or for all websites as the default setting.

Most of the websites store cookies in your browser to give you a better user experience. These cookies can be used to store your login information so that you do not have to login over and over again, store your preferences so that a website always shows up just like you want it and more. But sometimes cookies are also used for tracking your internet browsing behavior. You can choose to reject or accept cookies on any website you want, using the Cookie Controller extension in Mozilla Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox is probably the most popular web browser among the internet security aware netizens. Mozilla releases updates to Firefox on a regular basis keeping it free from any bugs or security concerns. With the latest update to version 10, Mozilla Firefox, by default, no longer shows the downloads window when you start downloading files. But you can enable to show the download window when downloading files in Mozilla Firefox.

Recently I bought a new Samsung Galaxy S II Android mobile phone and in no time I installed a new game called Fruit Ninja from the Android store. I got addicted to this game in a very short time. I thought it would be fun to have the same game on my personal computer. I was lucky to find that Fruit Ninja Frenzy, a Facebook edition of original Fruit Ninja, is available for free as an app in Facebook.

Everybody knows what a Google Doodle is. Google often celebrates special occasions like holidays, anniversaries etc. by placing a special logo on its homepage – this logo is called Doodle. Starting from the first Doodle in 1998, Google has done over a thousand Doodles so far. If you have fallen in love with a Google Doodle, then you can show it off by having it printed on your T-shirt, mugs, skateboards, bags and more.

These days, everyone keeps a mobile phone and all mobile phones have a calendar tool where you can manage your events and todo lists. Google Calendar also offers a similar feature where you can manage events and keep reminders. But if you are an avid Firefox user, then the best tool for you is ReminderFox. It is a Firefox extension using which you can manage reminders and todo lists.