Category: Internet

Websites are designed in a user friendly fashion with sidebars, menus, advertisements, related links etc. If you try to print a useful webpage, all of this un-needed information also gets printed. Not only the printout looks bad, but this is also a waste of the printing ink and the paper. You can now print any webpage with a nice print friendly format using the Print Friendly service.

Twitter is the popular microblogging web site that everyone is using these days from teenagers to celebrities. If you are tweeting for a while, have you ever wondered how long it would take to print your entire twitter timeline, how much paper is needed to print all of your tweets etc. Well, you can get an estimate without actually printing using the the Print Effect web site.

When you want to find out the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) ratings for a movie, you have to visit the IMDB web page and then type in the movie name. But if you are a Google Chrome user, then you can instantly find the IMDB ratings for any movie using the Go to IMDB extension. The Go to IMDB extension allows you to see the IMDB rating for any highlighted movie name on a webpage.

Many web sites specifically mention to open a webpage in a different web browser for it to work properly. For example, my university webpage does not allow to fill online application forms unless you open it in Internet Explorer. One way to do this is start a different web browser, type the webpage address manually and open the site. But if you are using Apple Safari, then you can quickly switch a web page in a different installed web browser.

All the latest web browsers support tabbed web browsing. Mozilla Firefox also allows tabbed web browsing. When you hover the mouse cursor over the Firefox window in the Windows taskbar then by default it only shows the thumbnail preview of the current tab. But you can change the settings so you can see the thumbnail previews of all tabs open in a Mozilla Firefox web browser.

If you shop online a lot, many a times you come across foreign web sites selling something that you so much want to buy, but the cost of the item is given in a foreign currency. You can always use Google to lookup for it and convert the foreign currency into your local currency. But if you are a Mozilla Firefox user, then you can just use the Simple Currency Converter add-on which performs the currency conversions at the click of a button.

You burnt midnight oil to create an impressive video and uploaded it on YouTube. But soon you find that others have copied and shared that very same video on their own YouTube channels. This makes everyone furious. You should not just get angry about such instances, but also report about such videos and ask YouTube to take them down.

Internet Explorer 9 supports tab-groups. When you choose to open a link in a new tab, the new tab is grouped together with the existing tab. Each tab group in the Internet Explorer is assigned a random color. By looking at the color of the opened tabs you can see which tabs belong to the same tab-group. If you do not like this colored tab groups, then you can disable the tabbed grouping (the colored tabs) in Internet Explorer.

If you are bored working on your computer all day long, then you can relax your mind by playing a little game of golf right inside your browser. You can install the Mini Golf extension in your Google Chrome web browser and start playing the golf game anytime you want. The golf game starts by clicking on a ball like icon on the Chrome toolbar. If you click on the icon again, the game is closed and you can go back to work.

In Firefox version 3.x when you closed the Firefox browser with many tabs open, you were shown the ‘Saving Tabs dialog’ asking you if you want to save the tabs. If you chose to save the tabs, those tabs were opened next time you started Firefox. But starting in Firefox version 4.x this feature is disabled. If you close the Firefox window, all tabs are closed and not opened the next time. This is irritating. If you want, you can enable the Save Tabs dialogs on exit.