Category: Internet

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.

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.