Category: Internet

If you keep forgetting your passwords to various web services, then you can use the online password management utility from LastPass. You can access LastPass without any plugin but full access to LastPass features requires installing a plugin. The LastPass installer tool installs a plugin in most of your browsers and using which you can store and retrieve your passwords.

If you are watching the World Cup Soccer 2010 matches being held in the South Africa, then you already know what vuvuzela is. A vuvuzela is a blow horn being played all around in the World Cup Soccer matches, and many people say it is very distracting. Now YouTube had added a feature to play the vuvuzela sound in the background of any video, just like you hear the vuvuzela being played in the World Cup Soccer matches.

World Cup Soccer 2010 are different in the sense that all the matches are haunted by the loud vuvuzela sounds coming from all around. A vuvuzela is a blow horn. When several vuvzelas are played together they make a noise resembling a swarm of angry bees. Now you can browse the web as if you were at World Cup Soccer 2010 – adding the vuvuzela sounds to every web page you visit.

Today the internet is full of harmful web sites and malware. Sometimes, you get paranoid of what to download and what to not download. Luckily, there is Dr.Web LinkChecker which you can use to scan a file or webpage before downloading or opening it.

The Macmillan English dictionary is an award winning dictionary first published in the year 2002. If you want to add the Macmillan English dictionary search to your Mozilla Firefox searchbox, then you can add it easily. This would allow you to look up word definitions and the thesaurus in the Macmillan English dictionary for free.

We have covered previously, how you can use OpenDNS free DNS servers for protecting yourself online. Now OpenDNS has started a new set of DNS servers – OpenDNS FamilyShield DNS servers. Using these servers you can block all the adult web content which is not appropriate for a family with kids.

Often you find yourself in the situation when you have to read a long document in your browser. If you are tired of scrolling a long document down or up, then the ScrollyFox is the Firefox add-on for you. The ScrollyFox add-on allows you to automatically scroll up or down a web page.

If you have a slower internet connection (around 100 kbps or less) and it takes a lot of time for you to load a web page, then you can use the Opera Turbo feature of the Opera browser.

Do you want to check out the latest tweets on Twitter but without having to use a web browser? You need a desktop client like Mixero. Mixero allows you to use the Twitter features right on your desktop. Mixero allows you to use Twitter and Facebook. You can login using multiple Twitter or Facebook accounts in the Mixero.