Category: Internet

Most of the web sites store data on your web browser called cookies. Some of these cookies are good, but others store data on your computer in order to track down your browser behavior. Most of these tracking cookies are third-party cookies.

Google is the internet giant company offering dozens of free services like e-mail, search engine, bookmarks and many others. If you do not want to manually type the address for each service, each time you use it, then Google Shortcuts add-on is for you. Using this add-on in Firefox you can access all the Google services with the click of a mouse button.

Some web sites store data on your computer in form of cookies. While most of these cookies are good, some of them store data on your computer in order to track down your browser behavior. Most of these tracking cookies are third-party cookies. You can easily block these third party cookies in Mozilla Firefox.

If your Firefox is acting sluggish or hanging up, then you may want to create a new profile. When you create a new profile and run Firefox using this new profile, it is like you have installed Firefox afresh. Here is how to create a new Firefox profile.

If you are suspicious if a file or web page is infected with a virus, then you can scan it using VirusTotal. The free VirusScan service can scan a file with a multitude of anti-virus engines and display the results. Now an add-on for scanning files and web pages using VirusTotal, called VTZilla, is available for Firefox.

Web browser cookies can be used to track down your browsing behavior. Most of these tracking cookies are third-party cookies. Fortunately, Internet Explorer provides an easy way to block the third party cookies.

any third party applications like YouTube, TwitPic etc. can directly tweet in your Twitter account. For this, you have to give them permission to access and post messages in your Twitter account. But if later you want to revoke their access, then you can do so following these easy steps.

The popular micro-blogging service

Whatever you post over the Facebook, can be seen by your friends, friends of friends or by everyone depending on how you have chosen your sharing settings. You can choose if you want to share quotes, status, posts, videos, photos, bio and birthday among other things on Facebook.

If you access your Facebook account from a computer or a device that you have never used to access Facebook before, then Facebook can notify you. This is a important measure in mitigating hacking attacks on your Facebook account.