Category: Internet

We earlier posted an article on how you can display the full and complete web site address in the Firefox web browser through its configurations. Similar to Firefox latest versions of the Opera browser also hide some parts of the displayed site address like http:// etc. If you are an Opera browser user, then you do not have to dig down into browser configurations to make it show the full web address in the location bar.

Internet Explorer started this trend and now almost every browser has started to trim some parts of the web site address like the protocol identifiers (http://, https:// etc.) from the actual site address displayed inside the location bar. Mozilla Firefox has also started this with version 7. But this may be a little annoying for people who are not familiar with this feature. If you do not like the URL trimming feature, then you can disable it easily in Mozilla Firefox.

Google has recently opened its social networking service Google+ to the public. You no longer require any invites to join Google+. If you have a Google account, then you can have your own Google+ account as well. After you have used your Google+ account in your web browser, you may want to integrate it with Windows to have the messages and notifications delivered right to your desktop. The G+ Notifier is such a free program that can help you achieve just that.

Starting with the version 4 of the Mozilla Firefox, all the options for the extensions (add-ons) are shown in a separate page. Sometimes this makes opening of the options dialog for extensions a very difficult task and hangs the Firefox browser. One workaround for this is to install Extension Options Menu add-on which lets you access the options dialog for various extensions right from the Firefox menubar.

The Quick Response code or the QR code in short has become very popular with mobile devices specially the smartphones. The QR code is a two dimensional bard code which can contain coded form of a message like telephone number, web site URL etc. You can scan any QR code using the camera of your smartphone and it would decode it and show you the encoded message in it. Normally businesses print their QR codes on various items. But now you can generate your own QR code for free online.

Both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome come with pre-installed internal spelling checker, unlike Internet Explorer which has no in-built spell check feature of its own. But you can use Speckie – a free spell checker for Internet Explorer. Speckie is a free and easy to use spell checker that can check as you type in Internet Explorer and marks the misspelled words with the usual wavy red underline.

Minus.com has brought to you 10 gigabytes of online storage space for free. Minus allows you to share your files with others, publish them online and or just use the online space as backup storage space. Minus allows you unlimited number of downloads and unlimited file transfers. You can upload files of size upto 2 GB. To get even more space, you can invite someone you know to use Minus. At the present time, they are giving no option to buy more space.