Enhanced History shows a list of websites you have visited, the numbers of times you have visited the URL, and the record of your last visit. You can also filter through your list by using search terms and by setting the date range – handy if you want to go back to a website you read from two weeks ago, but can’t exactly remember what it is. Enhanced History also lets you delete all history or your history from a range of dates.

Enhanced History is a good add-on for keeping track of stuff you visited. It has made my browser much more useful since now I can trace back articles and tools that I liked but forgot to bookmark.

Features:

• Provides a better history page for Google Chrome.
• Search by date range.
• Filter by keyword and date range.
• View most visited URLS.
• Quick link to delete browser history.
• Similar Tools: History Calendar, Decreased Productivity, and HistoryTree.

Check out Enhanced History @ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ocfblifjfffcokdoocoopcnaooljncbh

Using the service is very easy. Just visit the Timesearch History and choose the timeline for which you want to search. The website will not only show you related articles from that timeline but also show you related images, links and even map co-ordinates (if any).

You can search by keyword as well as also embedding or sharing a timeline that you like.

Features

• Interesting way to search Internet for history-related material.
• Free to use.
• News clippings, images, links and maps – all found in one place.
• Helpful for students and teachers.

Check out Timesearch @ www.timesearch.info/timesearch (Via FreeTech4Teachers) (By Hammad from TechnicallyDigital)

So a better option would be to disable the history completely for a certain time period. To do that, you should check a useful addon named History Disable button.

Once installed, the addon adds a disable history button in the Firefox bar. Clicking on the button will activate or deactivate the addon. When active, it disables the history including the address bar auto-complete feature to improve privacy. This is important if you are using a shared computer and you don’t want other users to see webpages you have visited.

Features

• Simple and easy to use.
• Disable history feature and address bar auto complete.
• Enable/disable addon with a single click.

Check out History Disable Button @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/history-disable-button/ (Via Ghacks) (By Hammad from TechncallyDigital)

ArchivedBook works through the Facebook API to display your wall messages, status updates, media you may have been included in, links you posted, your comments, and more. It does so in a somewhat cheesy, yet nostalgic design akin to an old book. ArchivedBook strips out the unnecessary elements in your profile and presents only a clean version, allowing you to breeze through your history.

Using the service I was able to pick up photos and messages from three years ago that I had already forgotten. You can also view the history of your friends without them having to sign up to the service.

ArchivedBook will be become even more useful as the years go by. If you want the feeling of social network nostalgia, this app will do its part.

Features:

• View all your recorded posts, statuses, and media in Facebook.
• View your friends’ histories.
• Clean, minimal interface lets your zoom through the past.
• Sort updates and posts by date.

Check out ArchivedBook @ http://archivedbook.com

You can simply browse or print documents based on times such as the Civil War or the Great Depression. Plus, you can see hundreds of interactive activities that have been created to make it fun to know these documents and learn the events surrounding them. You can also create your own activity around any document and share it with the world. Activities are also divided by desired skill such as Historical Analysis, Historical Comprehension and even research capabilities.

Features:

• Thousands of historical documents from the National Archive.
• Read documents and print them for use.
• Engage in fun activities built around these documents.
• Create your own activity.
• Browse documents/activities by time period and type of skill.
• No Registration required.
• Similar tools: WDL, History, ThisDay, LookBackMaps and David Rumsey Map Collection.
• Also read related article: 7 Historical Websites That Let Us Go Back & Take Another Peek At History.

Visit DocsTeach @ www.docsteach.org

The site, like many other such Google projects, was started as a part of the 20% time that Google gives to their engineers to work on creative stuff. You can also sign in and create a personalized collection of your favorite artworks.

Watch demo video:

Features

• Explore museums from around the world.
• Browse through artworks in super high resolution.
• Create your own collections.
• Similar site: VirtualMuseum.
• Also see How To Search the Collections of Famous Libraries & Museums.

Check out Google Art Project @ www.googleartproject.com (via TechCrunch By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

What Was There is a wonderful website that lets people upload old photographs of places in the world. Visitors to the website can view these photographs by browsing to different locations on a map. You can see what different sections of your native city or any other place in the world used to look like. With each photograph there are details that you can view to get better information. Amongst other things, these details include the year the photo was taken. Sections of the photographs can be magnified to get a better look at those old photos.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Helps see how places looked like in the past.
• Lets you browse places via a map.
• Lets people upload old photographs of sites in a city.
• Covers numerous cities.
• Similar tool: LookBackMaps, SepiaTown, Georeader, HistoryPin, SimpleGuideTool and VideoMap.
• Also read related articles:
  7 Historical Websites That Let Us Go Back & Take Another Peek
  3 Awesome Historical Google Maps Mashups
  ThisDay: View Historical Events That Happened On Today’s Date
  5 Cool Android Apps with GPS Activities For Kids

Check out What Was There @ www.whatwasthere.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

History.com, with its fitting name, is the perfect online spot for history lovers. On the site you will find the historical importance of today, articles on the latest archaeological breakthroughs, videos of interest, and even online games that are related to history. A slideshow on the homepage showcases the features content in a jiffy; from the slideshow I learned that Egypt might have had a female pharaoh at some point in time!

The site also contains the programming schedule for The History Chanel.

History.com has now become my daily must-visit bookmark. If you are a history enthusiast like me pay the site a visit and catch all the great content it has to offer.

Features:

• One of best websites for history.
• Details the historical importance of today.
• Contains articles on latest archaeological breakthroughs.
• Provides interesting articles related to history.
• Includes the programming schedule of The History Channel.
• Similar tools: LookBackMaps and David Rumsey Map Collection.
• Also read related article: 7 Historical Websites That Let Us Go Back & Take Another Peek At History.

Check out “History.com” @ www.history.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

In order to access This Day, you need to have the latest version of Flash Player. JavaScript must also be enabled for it to work. Additionally, your computer must have a resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher so that it can be displayed. In addition to the web content, you can also install a screensaver and a desktop gadget of this web application. Both are internet-based so that it can download content to display.

This Day is a stunning web tool that lets you feel like you are traveling back in time.

Features:

• Flash-based with great sound animation.
• Learn about a particular historical event occurred on this day.
• View other historical milestones for the past 5 days.
• Download and install a screensaver or a desktop gadget version.
• Similar tools: What Happened In My Birth Year.

Check out This Day @ www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/thisday/main.htm

The Travel Film Archive is a simple and free to use website that archives videos from the period between 1900 and 1970. The site is basically a collection of travelogues, educational, and industrial films that shows the world the way it was. You can find videos by keyword searching, through random playing, or filtering them through regions, countries, states, cities, filmmakers, decades, and subjects.

Features:

• A user friendly website.
• Does not require any registration.
• Lets you search historical video clips through keywords.
• Lets you browse travelogues and educational videos from 1900-1970.
• Videos can be browsed via region, filmmaker, decades, and subjects.
• Similar site: CriticalPast.
• Also read related article: 10 Websites For Virtual Sightseeing With Travel Videos.

Check out the Travel Film Archive @ www.travelfilmarchive.com/home.php (by MOin from ThumbPress)