If you are a professional blogger or site designer, you may find yourself jumping from one browser to the other. This can become a tedious task when you have to copy URLs and then paste them in each browser. For Firefox users however, there is a tool that makes this browser-shifting much easier. This tool [...]
Surely you would like to find websites similar to the ones you already like. If you like a certain video hosting site or web comic, similar websites will also be of interest to you. But because of their number, finding similar sites manually is an almost impossible task. That is precisely why Similar Site Search [...]
In one web browser, you cannot log into a website using two different accounts. For this you will need Multifox. Mutlifox is a browser add-on for Mozilla Firefox. This add-on lets you sign into a website using multiple accounts. You can shift from one account to the other without logging out. Basically this add-on creates [...]
Some sites do not support RSS feeds. People who have got used to getting their updates from feeds might find it inconvenient to manually visit these sites to see what is new. If you are one of these people, then you will greatly appreciate a website update alert tool called “ChangeDetection.” Change Detection is a [...]
HTTPS connections have clear benefits over HTTP ones. With HTTPS you get a higher level of security because data sent and received is encrypted; 3rd party services cannot decrypt this data and learn about your activities. Moreover, HTTPS sometimes lets you access a site inaccessible on your network. To take advantage of what HTTPS has [...]
Scroll bars are one of the best things in web design but there are some webpages that you wish had automated scrolling. ScrollyFox is a Firefox add-on that makes it possible. Instead of continuously clicking the scroll button, just click on the ScrollyFox icon next to your status bar and the page will scroll up [...]
While there are many tools to check your files for viruses, there are not many trusted sources to check whether a website has malware on it. You could visit the malware infected site and the malware could penetrated your computer without your antivirus or you knowing about it. This is a serious problem which URL [...]
Most of us live our entire online lives inside a web browser these days and use a number of browser plugins to take us through our daily tasks. Considering how important browsers are to our daily routine, I’m sure all of you take the pain to upgrade as soon as a new version of your [...]
As a blogger I have had to create accounts on many websites, mostly just to review them. But sometimes I like the site’s service and end up using it regularly. Keeping track of all my usernames plus passwords can become a little hectic; that is why I use password management service LogAway. LogAway is a [...]
Because of new advancements being made on the internet every day, website development is now more complicated than before. After creating a website and merging the latest features into it, developers do not know which browsers will support their website best. A tool that lets them find out browser compatibility is CanIUse. CanIUse is a [...]
Mornings can be a tough time, particularly if you think your morning will be a busy one. If short quotes and positive thinking can make you feel better about your morning, you might want to check out Daily Motivator. This Firefox plugin will display an positive motivational quote for you every time you start up [...]
If you are a regular user of image hosting sites like Imageshack or PhotoBucket, this tool can help you get a clean browsing experience. ShowJustImage is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers that removes all the extra clutter from an image hosting site so you can view the photo without any clutter. [...]
If you read articles on online versions of top magazines like Wired and PC World then you will know what paginated web pages are and how frustrating it is to read them. Clicking on the numbers and going from one page to another isn’t always fun. AutoPagerize is a nifty tool that helps you get [...]
If you have ever wanted to browse a website with a group of people, you must check out social web browsing tool Nur.ph. Once you enter the URL of the website you want to browse, Nur.ph will generate a short link for your session that you can send to as many people as you want. [...]
There are many occasions when you would want to block access to a website. It might be a time-waster, it might contain malware or it might be simply inappropriate for your kids. BinarySwitchEclipse is a lightweight utility that lets you block multiple websites, irrespective of the browser. After you install the software, just add the [...]
It is so hard not to waste time on sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. More so because there is no easy way of tracking how much time you have actually wasted on different sites. All of this changes with a cool Firefox extension called PageAddict. Once installed, it will show you how much time [...]
If there’s one thing geeks love doing, it’s arguing about which browser is best. Now there’s an objective online tool that lets you test your browser online! BrowserScope.org can run a number of tests on your browser to tell you about its speed, its security and even its network compliance. You can even run every [...]
When you start browsing websites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, hours go by before you realize you have wasted a lot of time. xMinutesAt is a handy tool to helps avoid wasting time online. It is a small online timer that you can set before browsing any website, and it will remind you once the [...]
If you think that clearing cookies and the browser cache after surfing erases your browser fingerprints then think again. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) says that there are a lot of other methods to track browser activity and identify you online. In order to check how unique your browser configuration really is, the EFF provides [...]
Webpages nowadays update very quickly and it can be very laborious to go through all the clutter just to find the content that you are interested in. Femtoo is a web app that saves you time by monitoring changes on a specific part of a webpage. Femtoo tracks changes on a website and notifies you [...]