Category: Internet

Google introduced its social networking service – Google Buzz in the second week of February 2010. Google Buzz is available from right inside the Google Mail. Many users have raised concerns over Google Buzz’s privacy problems. If you have started to use Google Buzz but now want to disable it, then you can do so easily as follows.

Mozilla Firefox version 3.6 has a new tabbing behavior : when you click on a new link which is supposed to be opened in a new window or tab, or you right-click on a link and select – Open in a new tab, the tab is inserted right next to the current tab. This is different from the older behavior when the new tab was opened to the extreme right of all the tabs. If you do not like the new tabbing behavior, there is a way to change it back to the older way of tabbing.

Firefox users are advised to update the plugins installed in the Firefox browser from time to time in order to prevent any interruption while browsing or due to exposure to malware, viruses and other security threats. Plugins do not always update automatically, hence, users need to check from time to time whether the installed plugins are up to date.

Google has introduced Google public DNS servers for free public use. Google boasts that these DNS servers are really fast and more secure. Anybody can use the Google public DNS servers for free if they properly configure the internet settings. This article discusses how to configure Windows to use the Google public DNS servers

You feel you are not getting the same internet bandwidth speed as you are paying for? You can test your internet speed online to find out the real time download and upload internet bandwidth speed. You can choose from a variety of speed tests using many servers all over the world.

You want to save an entire webpage as an image. You can save it as an image (JPEG, PNG, BMP or GIF) using Fireshot add-on for Firefox. You can upload the saved snapshot to a social networking site too.

In Windows, TCP/IP stack can become corrupted for many reasons – one of them being a malware infection. TCP/IP stack is the built-in instructions set in your computer. If you cannot connect to the Internet and you have tried all other methods to resolve the problem, TCP/IP might be causing it. Here is a way how you can rest TCP/IP stack manually.

Google Chrome is a slim, fast and secure browser. But when you download a file using Google Chrome, it does not prompt you and starts downloading the file. You can change this default behavior and make Google Chrome ask for a folder to save the file in.

When you search Yahoo! for a term or phrase, it lists all the results. It may list offensive or sexually explicit results too. You can change settings in Yahoo! search engine to filter such results.