If you are one of those people who are annoyed by advertisements while browsing, you’ll love this tool. AdOut is a simple web app that lets you browse all kinds of websites without the clutter of ads. Just enter the URL of the website you want to browse and press enter. AdOut blocks all sorts [...]
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 [...]
The Internet is addictive. There are no two ways about it. And with Internet access becoming ubiquitous on all kinds of devices, addiction to the Internet is only going to become a bigger problem. These days, most people I know start their day not by checking their email, but by checking their facebook updates or [...]
How many hours are you spending in front of your computer and how productive have you been? If you’re not happy with your answer, then you should try this web app. StayFocusd is a Google Chrome extension that helps you focus when you work and block time wasting websites. It sets a timer for addictive [...]
Ever ordered something from, say, eBay and then patiently refreshed the courier company’s website every few hours to figure out the current location of your package? Is logging into your three email accounts the first thing that you do after switching on your computer? Are you tired of entering the usernames and passwords each time? [...]
A search engine is probably the most used tool on the web. A full time webworker probably runs at least a hundred search queries every day. SearchOpener is a quick and simple tool that helps increase your work productivity by allowing you to do multiple searches simultaneously. To use SearchOpener, enter a keyword phrase per [...]
Walk2Web is an online app that provides a fun and unique way of exploring websites on the internet through webwalking. It lets you discover new websites by illustrating a network of web pages which you can navigate with manual web crawling. To use this app, enter a URL of the website. Then you will see [...]
Whenever you work online, do you occasionally find the need to copy-paste multiple links and open each one in your browser? This can really be time-consuming since you have to open windows and tabs all the time. URLOpener is a web application that solves this problem by letting you open multiple URL’s with just a [...]
If you’re anything like me you usually have Gmail, Google Voice, Google Documents and a couple other Google applications open at any given moment during your workflow. This works beautifully if you’re the only person using the computer, but can be a disaster if someone asks “can I check my email for a second?” Gmail [...]