Category: Internet

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.

Tagged is a rapidly growing social networking site. You can make new contacts and friends on Tagged, play games and share gifts among many other things. While Tagged may sound like Facebook, it offers a unique and totally different kind of user experience. If you are a Tagged user but are not getting any fun out of it for some reason, then you may want to cancel your Tagged account.

Twitter is a micro-blogging web site that everyone on this planet knows about. Twitter has been known to be the center of many nationwide revolutions like in Turkey and Egypt. If you are also one of many Twitter fans then you should know how to beautify your tweets by adding stars, arrows, hands, smile and various other symbols to your tweets. This way you can make your tweets fascinating, eye catching and attractive.

Often you encounter web sites which require you to supply your email address for viewing, downloading or accessing some content. If you give your regular email address to them, there is a possibility that you would soon start receiving spam on that address. But if you are a Firefox user, then you can install the TrashMail.net add-on which can automatically generate a disposable email address.

Do you want to give your pictures a retro look as if they are from a bygone era of 60s or 70s? Usually you have to know some expert skills in Adobe Photoshop (or GIMP) to give your pictures a retro look. But now you can use the Pixlr-o-matic online tool to add many cool retro vintage effects without any knowledge of the graphics editing. The Pixlr-o-matic tool is powered by the popular online image editor Pixlr. You can use it from any modern web browser that supports Adobe Flash.

Remember as kids we used to draw mustaches over the faces in the pictures of all the pretty girls in magazines or newspapers ? It was so much fun. Now a new Google extension called Mustachio can do it automatically for all the pictures that you view in the Google Chrome web browser. Mustachio uses the face recognition API from face.com. This API scans your currently open web page for faces, and when a face is found, stamps that face with one of many designer mustaches.