Firefox is a great web browser, but it eats your memory very fast. Even if I just keep Firefox idle with one or two sites open, its memory usage quadruples in only a few hours. This is why some people use tricks of restarting Firefox every 30 minutes or so, in order to reduce its memory consumption. But restarting Firefox periodically is not very practical. Instead, you can use the Memory Fox extension that strives to reduce the memory utilized by Firefox and Adobe Flash Player plugins.
Read moreCameroid : Use Webcam to Take Pictures Online
If you have a webcam and are connected to the Internet, then there are dozens of websites using which you can easily take your own picture through your webcam without needing any special software. Cameroid is such a website that allows you to snap your pictures with webcam along with adding more than fifty effects like filter, scenes, distort and frames.
Read moreJPEGCrops : Crop, Rotate and Resize JPEG Images Losslessly
Here is the dilemma that I had to face a few months ago – my digital camera captures pictures only in the 16:9 aspect ratio, but my color printer prints photos only on a 4×6 inches glossy page. The photographs, that my printer was printing out, had white space left-out unprinted on sides because of the unmatched aspect ratio. Then I discovered JPEGCrops – a freeware program that can crop your JPEG images losslessly (without losing any fine details) to fit on a certain aspect ratio.
Read moreConfigure Yahoo! Mail Account in Thunderbid
In a recent update Yahoo! has removed some restrictions on the use of Yahoo! Mail through email clients. So now you can access your Yahoo! Mail inbox through an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source email client for Windows and Linux. Thunderbird allows easy configuration with many email services including Yahoo! Mail. This article describes how you can configure your Yahoo! Mail account in Thunderbird.
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How to Disable BITS Service Permanently in Windows 8
After installing Windows 8 on my computer, I found the constant network activity from Windows services for accessing the Internet. It was very annoying as it was consuming so much of my Internet bandwidth. After some analysis I discovered that it was the Background Intelligence Transfer Service (BITS) that was responsible for this. This service automatically starts every time you restart Windows. So I figured out the following method to disable it permanently.
Read moreKaspersky Security Scan : Check Your PC for Security Risks
Kaspersky Security Scan is a free utility that can scan your system for all types of security risks. It can check your system for malware, vulnerabilities, presence of a protection software (antivirus) and more. It then generates a report about the found items that could be putting your system at risk. Even if you have an antivirus installed, you can use this utility to have a second opinion about your system security settings.
Read moreAdd Restart Options in Mozilla Firefox Browser
When you install a new add-on in Firefox, some of them want you to restart Firefox in order to finish the installation. But if you want to restart Firefox manually, then strangely enough, there is no restart option available in Firefox. Now you can add a restart option in Firefox browser using a new add-on called Restart. It adds many options in Firefox user interface which allow you to easily restart the Firefox browser.
Read moreErase Re-Writable Optical Disks with Active DVD Eraser
If you have a re-writable DVD or CD disk, then you can use Windows in-built CD/DVD burner function to write files on it. But what if you want to delete the data that already exists on the DVD-RW or CD-RW disk? The free Active DVD Eraser can help you easily erase all the data present on DVD-RW, DVD+RW or CD-RW disks and make them blank again.
Read moreAdd Windows Update Cleanup feature for Disk Cleanup Tool
The disk cleanup utility in the latest version of Windows (Windows 8) comes with a feature to clean the installed Windows updates. This feature can clean hundreds of megabytes of the Windows updates downloaded over many months or years. If you are a Windows 7 user and are feeling left out, then you can install this feature as an add-on in the disk cleanup utility for Windows 7.
Read moreChange Adobe Flash Player Update Frequency in Windows
Adobe Flash Player is set to automatically update itself in Windows, which is a good thing. By default, it schedules itself to check for latest updates on the Adobe server every hour of the day in the background. Personally, I find this an overkill to continuously keep querying Adobe servers. After all, they release updates only once in a month. If you are like me and want to reduce the number of times Adobe Flash Player checks for updates, then you can follow these instructions.
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