Category: Internet

Do you remember the Black Eyed Peas song – Meet Me Halfway? Yes, we all encounter situations when two people have to decide on a mutually acceptable meeting place. Neither of the two persons want to travel farther – both want to meet in a public place located halfway to each other. You can waste each others time thinking about such a meeting place, or you can use the MeetWays online service to find about such a place easily in a few seconds.

Although world economy is going down the hill and the real estate business is suffering too, yet everyone needs a home to live in – whether you buy it or rent it. If you are looking for a nice home to live in and want to buy or rent it, then you can search a home at Zillow. Zillow is a free internet service, a living database of more than a hundred million U.S. homes, including homes for sale, homes for rent and homes not currently on the market.

If you shop online a lot then you would be delighted to know that you can get your cash back and find exclusive coupons at almost all the major online shopping sites like Groupon, Walmart, Barnes and Nobles etc. ExtraBux is a browser add-on which flashes yellow notification bar showing the discounts, coupons and exclusive cash back offers available for an online shopping site as you visit that web site.

All the modern browsers today are armed with protections tools to warn you about phishing and scam sites. For example, Mozilla Firefox checks all the sites you visit with Google Safe Browsing database and warns you about any scam, phishing or malicious sites. But these do not block the fake online store sites which are being run by cyber-criminals ready to steal your sensitive information. You can use the Zscaler Safe Shopping extension to get warned about such fake or compromised online stores.

Like all the other modern browsers, Mozilla Firefox also supports the private browsing mode feature. If you turn this feature on, then Firefox switches to the private browsing mode in which your browsing history is not saved to the local hard disk. You can turn on the private browsing mode using the Firefox menu or using its hotkey, but a faster way is to install the Toggle Private Browsing add-on in Firefox.

If you want to draw a comic book style cartoon of yourself, then it is going to take some professional graphics editing skills in Photoshop. But if you use the Befunky online application, then all it takes is a few clicks. Befunky is an online application that can turn your pictures into outlined cartoons automatically without needing any manual editing on your part. You can upload your pictures to Befunky and use one of many available cartoon effects to cartoonize them.

Security researchers have found out that the social networking sites like facebook, Google+, twitter etc. track your browsing behavior. For example, if you visit a web site with a facebook Like button implemented on it, then the information is sent to facebook that this facebook user visited that site. The same is true for other social networks like Google+, Twitter or Linkedin etc. This is a big privacy concern for everyone.

It has happened to all of us that we want to play a song but it is on a device we forgot at home. This is a frustrating moment. But now you do not have to worry about those situations. You can use mSpot free cloud music storage service to store your music and play it from any device like PC, Mac, Android, iPhone etc. The mSpot service is free for up to 5 gigabytes (about 4000 songs) of storage. For larger storage services, you have to pay a monthly fee.

Earlier just anybody could post anything tagged with your name and it would appear on your facebook profile (also called timeline). Facebook has now rolled a new security feature to take care of this – called Profile Review. Profile Review keeps photos and posts tagged with your name from showing up on your profile without your approval. Now when someone posts anything with your name tagged, you are asked first to confirm the post. The post would appear on your timeline only after your approval.

It has happened to all of us that the Firefox browser crashes after we have typed a huge amount of text in an online comment form. This is a very frustrating moment. Usually we have no other choice but to restart the browser, open that web page and start typing it all over again. But if you have the Lazarus add-on installed in your Firefox browser then you do not have to worry about these mishaps.