Is your computer used by others? If so, then perhaps it is a good idea to delete your browsing activity history to keep your Internet browsing private. But this step involves more than simply deleting your web browser history. The task for Google Chrome users is made easy thanks to an app called History Eraser [...]
Are you looking to expand upon the websites you visit frequently? We all have our favorite websites (hopefully MakeUseOf is one of yours), and it’s certainly useful to expand our horizons and find new websites to kill time and gain knowledge. Of course, you probably don’t want to break too far out of your comfort [...]
Are you looking for a fun and interesting way to browse the web on your iPad? Futureful is a cool application that allows you to see the web in a completely random way. It’s very similar to StumbleUpon, but with an even higher level of randomness to the experience. Sure, a lot of the time, [...]
Have you ever wanted to access your browser’s web history remotely? This might have happened when you were using somebody else’s computer and wanted to check out a website you visited from your own computer earlier. While remotely accessing your browser’s history might not be very straightforward, a solution to the problem is provided by [...]
Results of search engines have been shown in the same way for a long time. To open the links, you have to open them from the search results page. But here to help you browse those results in a more convenient way is a search engine called Quicko. Quicko is a free to use website [...]
The web browsers you use to the surf the internet always keep a browsing history to help you trace back to the pages you visited, in case you wanted to. But sometimes finding those pages is not that easy, despite the different sorting and searching options provided by modern web browsers. In such a case, [...]
The social web is something that has become engrained into our daily lives, though sharing links on Facebook and joining in message board discussions is only half of it. MetaWeb is a new service that installs to your PC or iPhone and allows you to see who else is browsing the same websites you are, [...]
This is one of those apps that I have been searching for, for a very long time. DualBrowser is a fantastic app for the iPad which allows you to split the screen in two, enabling you to browse two different websites at the same time. At $3.99, it is worth every cent. There are many [...]
Sometimes, JavaScript can be downright annoying. There are plenty of occasions where it is helpful, and it makes websites do some cool things, but more often than not, it does something that you do not want it to do. Whether it is blocking you from right-clicking or monitoring your clicks on the site, they can [...]
Sometimes, navigating the streets and lanes of the World Wide Web can be a dangerous and scary experience. Not everyone out there are nice friendly honest people so there’s a high chance of viruses, malware and people trying to steal your confidential information. This is where Spotflux comes in. Spotflux aims to make your Internet [...]
Android devices are used by countless people to browse the Internet. But unlike a computer web browser, the built-in browsers in Android devices do not offer split-screen browsing. In other words, using the native browser you can only view one page at a time. This becomes a problem when you want to visually compare something [...]
Web developers and testers often have a need to refresh a webpage every few seconds or minutes, and EasyAutoRefresh is a Chrome extension that does the job perfectly. Once installed on your Chrome browser, the extension displays a tiny refresh icon in your address bar. Just click on it and specify the duration you want [...]
Do you want to share websites and navigate through them with your friend? Then here is a simple browser extension that will get the job done. Friend-Pointer is a cool tool that lets you surf and navigate websites from multiple PC’s with your friends in real-time. The implementation is pretty simple – once you have [...]
The market for clutter-free reading on the web seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Instapaper and Readability are already fighting for dominance and suddenly we see Evernote jumping into the fray out of nowhere. It has launched a Chrome extension called Clearly that basically does the same thing – clearing the clutter from [...]
Amazon’s website does not have the best interface for browsing and discovering new books. Yet, it remains one of the most economical online places to purchase new book and ebooks. What you need is a friendlier way to browse Amazon’s books section. This is precisely what a web service called Bookflavor provides. By default the [...]
When you visit websites online, most of them are tracking you with cookies to serve you more targeted ads. A few can be quite malicious and infect your computer with viruses and other malware. So check out Cocoon which is a browser add-on for Firefox and which provides you with a safe browsing environment. It [...]
Split-screen browsing allows a user to simultaneously view and use two websites without having to change browser tabs. While desktop users have been making use of this feature for quite some time, phone owners have only recently been able to benefit from it, thanks to an app called DualWeb Browser. DualWeb Browser is a smartphone [...]
Imagine you have a test website running. Instead of sending your friend a link and waiting for their feedback, wouldn’t it be convenient to browse the site together? In this case and in many others, browsing a website simultaneously with your friends can bridge communication gaps and quickly let you point out a site’s interesting [...]
While browser tabs are easier to deal with than multiple browser windows, there are still ways that browsing multiple websites could be made easier. One way is to divide the browsing area into different sections, one for each website. But that often leaves very little viewing room. Here to offer an effective solution for the [...]
Opening multiple links within a page can be a very time consuming, not to mention tedious process. To do this, you have to either right click each link to open in a new window or tab, or use the CTRL + click shortcut on each link to open them, which is not a very efficient [...]