Category: Internet

You must have noticed that professionals watermark their images and write their website name or their own name at one corner of their photographs. The watermarking is necessary to give a certain level of protection to their photographs from being stolen over the internet by someone else. You can also watermark your photographs before you upload them to sites like facebook, twitter, picassa or flickr etc. You can use PicMarkr free service to easily watermark your pictures.

When you open your Mozilla Firefox browser it shows a blank white tab if you have not set any homepage. You see the same blank white background tab if you try to open a new tab. This white background is very boring and dull looking. If you want to make the new tab look better, then you can decorate Firefox new tab background with the help of the Browser Backgrounds extension. The Browser Backgrounds extension allows you to install wallpaper in the Firefox window.

We have previously posted an article on how you can add new search provider in the Internet Explorer 7 and 8. But things are a little different for Internet Explorer 9. In the Internet Explorer 9 the search box and the address bar have been combined together. So when you have to search in this version, you can type the search phrase in the address bar itself and click on the magnifying lens like icon that appears as shown. By default the search provider for Internet Explorer is Bing.

When I was little my elder sister always told me to turn on the lights while watching the TV. But I always turned them off so I can better focus on the videos, TV shows or movies. Today we watch lots of videos on the internet using our computer screen but there are so many distractions on a video web site. Fortunately, there is a browser extension called Turn off the Lights which can help you turn off the lights around the video in your browser.

With the invention of the twitter like micro-blogging services, the fashion of using shortened URLs was brought forth. Although, there are hundreds of such URL shortening services like bit.ly, tinyurl, mcaf.ee etc., yet we hear everyday of some new URL shortening service to come into existence. These shortened URLs have their own benefits as they save the space used in your comments. But still these shortened URLs are dreaded as no-one can foretell where they would redirect you.

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.