Category: Internet

Surfing everyday on the Internet, you often come across websites with mailto links clicking on which your default email client opens up so you can send an email. You can also email a web page URL to a friend by choosing from the menubar. Firefox allows you to choose which email client or service you want to set a default for such actions. You can choose from installed email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook etc. and also web based email services like Yahoo or Gmail.

Recently Facebook has started a new Video Calling feature to its huge battery of features. The feature will be powered by the Internet phone service Skype. Using this feature, now you can start a video chat with your friends on Facebook. Before you can start using this feature you need to setup your computer to use this video calling feature.

If you have ever shared a room with someone then you know how awkward it feels when your room-mate just bursts into your room and looks at your computer screen and smirks at the sites you have been surfing. What about a little privacy? If you are using the Google Chrome browser, then you are in luck. The PanicButton extension for the Chrome browser makes it easier for you to hide all of your tabs at once just by clicking on a button.

The internet is full of spammers ready to find out email address so that he can spam you for months and years. But thanks to Yahoo!, you can now create disposable email addresses to use whenever you do not want to share your real Yahoo! email address. You will receive all messages sent to the disposable address. If, at any time, any one of your disposable addresses starts receiving spam, you can just delete that email address.

Until now if you wanted to download your data (like Gmail contacts) then it used to involve many steps. But now Google has made it very easy to download all your Google data linked to all the Google services you use in one click. Google has started a new service (which is also a part of Google+) called Google Takeout. Using Google Takeout, you can download and export all of your data like Gmail contacts, Buzz comments, Google+ circles, Picasa web albums etc., in one click.

Google transliteration enables a user with a standard English US keyboard to type in many Asian languages. Google transliteration IME is a software that you can install in Windows to type in any of those supported languages. Google Transliteration IME is currently available for 22 different languages. But the problem is that you need to be online to install Google Transliteration IME software.

Many times we come across captivating, useful and fun web sites and we want to send the links to our friends mobile phones so they can also have a taste of the fun sites that we have been enjoying. But typing and sending a URL on a mobile phone is a cumbersome work. Using the free Site-to-Phone service you can send links from any browser on your desktop computer, laptop or netbook computer to any mobile phone.

Many web sites track your browsing behavior in order to present you with products or advertisements that better suite your web browsing pattern. This includes information about what sites you visit, things you like, dislike and purchase. Some people think this is clearly a violation of personal privacy. If you also are concerned with being tracked then you can use a new feature in Firefox 5 using which you can tell all the sites that you do not want to be tracked.

Many countries have put heavy censorship on the their citizens on the use of the internet. If you live in such a country, you are missing most of the fun on the internet like Facebook and Twitter. Fortunately, Global Internet Freedom Consortium has come up with an easy to use proxy which hides your IP address and encrypts your connection to the Internet.

Google is always coming up with newer and refreshing ideas about how to use Google search. Now Google has come forward with a new style of search called Voice Search. Using voice search you can dictate search phrases or keywords in Google search engines using your microphone. Google voice search is only available for the Google Chrome web browser in the English language.