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Bookmarks as be aren’t a highly imaginative system – a list of URLs. This puts a number of strict limits on their use. Most importantly, a limit in quantity. As the number of bookmarks increase, the overview of your bookmarks fails, and makes it harder to find anything. And so we end up with a [...]
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Screenshots, when blogging, or even just sharing a website with friends, can greatly slow you down. Suddenly, you’re browsing your desktop, cropping in an external editor and searching for a reliable image host. An in-browser application solves this problem. With the three Chrome extensions discussed below, you can snap and annotate screen snapshots without ever [...]
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The recent update of Safari 5.0 includes a slew of practical extensions that enable users to add and customize features of Safari. In the first extension update, we covered how to add extensions to Safari. Before we discuss five handy new extensions, here are a few more quick tips for handling Safari extensions in general. [...]
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What with the web getting more and more social by the day, people are using instant messaging a lot to keep in touch with each other. Not only do people use it for the everyday hello, sometimes entire meetings may be conducted over chat. Therefore, it becomes really important for a user to be up [...]
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Tab structures might be a relatively new concept, they’re always linear, and even in tree-style heavily restricted for you, the end user. Already, behind the screens, Firefox developers are trying to redefine the browser interface. Tab Candy is a new way of organizing your browser tabs. The project is headed by Aza Raskin, the Creative [...]
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To draw a comparison, the internet is like the badlands of the Wild West. Full of opportunities but also a free-for-all, where you don’t know when the next attack is going to come from. The browser is one of the most vulnerable soft spots. The browser remains our main porthole for viewing the web. It’s [...]
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Wikipedia is one of the foremost sources of information online and there is no limit to how the site can be used for both research and for contributing information. Regardless of what your browser of choice is, you’re bound to find a plugin that will enhance your Wikipedia experience, making it easier to search through [...]
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Not all webpages are made equal. There will be some webpages which will render you optically-challenged. But thanks to the Zoom feature in all browsers, webpages can be made clearer for readability. The zoom feature has some uses apart from just text enlarging functions. Noting down the finer details of an image is one of [...]
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Do you browse the web on your mobile device? As cell phones get faster connection speeds, processors, bigger screens and better applications, it’s getting easier and easier to go online with them. Add in the fact that most websites have a mobile version now and it makes this an even simpler process. Today, we’re going [...]
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One of Windows 7′s most exciting new features was the redesigned task bar. Apart from bigger icons, open windows were now grouped per program, and sometimes expanded in so-called preview tabs upon mouse-over. By now, this feature has been added to all major browsers. There’s but one catch. Not everyone enjoys it. Whether it’s due [...]
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Bookmarklets are probably one of the most useful things on the Internet today. A small trinket of code saved as a bookmark can enable you to perform some truly incredible tasks, which makes your web browsing a walk in the park. At MUO, we have covered bookmarklets like Printliminator, Readability and Quix, and your feedback [...]
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Firefox 4 Beta is now available for Mac, Windows and Linux users. If you want to help Mozilla out and test-drive their latest offering, you can download the beta version and take part in the feedback process. So you probably want to know what’s new in this version before giving it a go. Below is a [...]
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If you’re used to surfing in all the glory that desktop web browsers offer (e.g. bookmarks, download manager, themes, etc.), browsing in the iPhone’s mobile Safari can sometimes prove difficult. There is no in-page text search (though there’s a bookmarklet); no fullscreen mode, no real tabs (though there’s Tabulate, a bookmarklet that aims to provide [...]
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When you’re trying to remember the exact course of a conversation, to retrieve a lost web address, or just want to reminiscence tales of a past long gone, your chat logs can help you out big time. Taking note of conversations may sound unnecessary, or even plain paranoid, but often proves to be extremely useful. [...]
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Ever since the legendary battle between Netscape and Internet Explorer, the browser market has shaped up to become a lot more exciting. Netscape has vanished, but its successors give Internet Explorer a run for its market share. There is Firefox, which stepped into Netscape’s pioneer position. Opera, the fastest. Safari, the Mac browser. Flock, the [...]
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