Category: Internet

Sometimes when you open a web site, you get an error that the server cannot be reached. You can do nothing much except try to reload that webpage by pressing the refresh F5 button on your keyboard. If you are using the Mozilla Firefox web browser, then instead of pressing F5 again and again, you can use the Try Again add-on for Firefox.

Some web sites allow you to access it using the secure connection (HTTPS), yet show both the secure (HTTPS) and insecure (HTTP) content. If you access such a web site using the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser, you might get a warning prompt – only secure content is displayed. This is because that web site is showing mixed content. You have to choose to display mixed content each time you visit such a site. If you want you can enable displaying of the mixed content permanently.

Google Instant is a service available on the Google Search webpage. This allows you to quickly search for the typed words or phrases without hitting the Enter key or clicking on the search button. Few people know that the same service can be enabled within the Google Chrome browser itself. This enables you to browse faster on the web by showing search results and webpages in the browser window as you type in the address bar (called Omnibox), even before you press Enter.

How many times you end up printing things on a web page that you never wanted to print in the first place? You only want to print an article, but you end up printing the advertisements, pictures and other irrelevant things. This not only wastes your printer ink but also makes the printed out article look bad. Well, worry no more, now you can print only what you like to print using the Print What You Like service.

Google has always come up with new and innovative ideas. Now Google has brought forward a Google Talk bot called Guru who you can chat with and ask your questions. Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc. via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk.

The GeoLocation service is anew feature in most of the web browsers using which a website can request for your geographical location on this planet. This information is used for providing you with related local content. If you want, you can remove the GeoLocation permission that you have given previously in Firefox.

Twitter is the most popular micro-blogging service in the world. Everyone loves to tweet and share links pictures and other information over Twitter. Imagine you lose or forget your Twitter login password. Do not worry or panic, you can easily recover your forgotten Twitter password from the browser history using the Twitter Password Decryptor tool.

The Google Street View is a part of the Google Maps, which lets you explore the world at the street level. Using this service you can view any street with houses, cars and sometimes standing people in it. Google usually edits or blurs the faces of people and car registration numbers. But if they forget to do so, then you can request them to remove your personal identification information like face, house, car registration number etc.

You can add one or more add-ons in the Mozilla Firefox browser to modify or enhance the capabilities of this browser. Mozilla Firefox checks for updates of the installed add-ons once everyday by default. But if you think this is too often, you can extend the update checking interval. For example, you can make Firefox check for add-on updates every week.