Category: Internet

When you browse the internet in your web browser, the downloaded files are locally stored on your hard disk for quick access. This temporary storage of web site files on your hard disk is called cache. We all know how to clear browser cache. But when you clear the browser cache in Internet Explorer, it removes files for all web sites. What if you want to remove cache only for the currently open web site?

Windows Live offers many services in one account like Hotmail, Messenger, Skydrive etc. If you are not using these services or you have more than one Windows Live account, then it is better that you close your Windows Live account. You can close and drop your Windows Live account very easily. This will close your account access including Hotmail, Messenger, Skydrive etc.

If you are a very creative tweeter (a person who posts tweets on twitter), then you would want to create a backup of your tweets. The backup would be your own personal archive of what your tweet. You can have this archive published as a book and gift it to your grandchildren. Or you can look at your tweets years later and smile. Here is how you can create a backup of your tweets for free using TweetBackup.

Are you tired of seeing others posting a witty and smart status update on their facebook or twitter page? Do people call your facebook and twitter status updates boring? Worry no more, Generatus is here to save your day. With Generatus you can generate witty, smart and funny status updates ready to be used in your facebook or twitter page.

Many times you have to give your phone number to people you do not know personally. This is always risky as you do not know what kind of person you are giving your phone number to. For example, you want to be listed in Craiglist but do not want to expose your personal phone number to thousands of stalkers. For these situations, you can create a disposable web link for your phone number using the Babble.ly service.

Microsoft Internet Explorer limits the simultaneous downloads to only two at a time by default. So if you try to download more than two files from the same website, you can download only two files at the same time – more downloads start only after first ones have finished downloading. This is true for all version of Internet Explorer from versions 7 to 9. But you can increase the number of simultaneous downloads in Internet Explorer by doing a Registry hack.

The Search Direct feature from Yahoo! is Yahoo’s answer for Google’s instant search. You type a search phrase and results are displayed without your needing to hit the Enter key. This can be very useful but some of us do not really need this. If you are the one who likes the old way of hitting the Enter key on your keyboard for getting the results from the Yahoo! search, then you can disable the Search Direct feature.

The Firefox browser has undergone a complete design change and in the version 4 it shows a orange colored button on the top-left. This orange colored button is labeled Firefox and when you click on it the menu appears. Some people do not like the orange color of this button. If you do not like the orange color of this button, when with a little workaround you can change not only its color but also its label as you wish.

Mozilla Firefox version 4 has gone a complete makeover. It does not show any menu bar by default, tabs are shown on top (above the location bar) and the menu is accessibly only through the top-left orange Firefox button. If you want to make the menu-bar visible in Mozilla Firefox 4, you can follow these easy instructions :

When you have to copy – paste something from a webpage without all the fonts, colors and images into an editor like MS Word, you first copy and paste it in Notepad so it loses all the HTML formatting. Then you copy it from Notepad and into MS Word. But this is time consuming and tiresome. If you are a Google Chrome user, then you are in luck. You can use the Copy Without Formatting extension for Chrome browser to copy unformatted text right from a webpage.