November 18, 2011
The shopping season is almost upon us. Every year, more and more of us turn to the Internet to help us pick up the items we need – okay, maybe not need, but are looking for – and avoid the rush of people crowding our various stores and shopping malls. What are you looking for this year? A new jacket? A purse? At any rate, this is generally much easier to do online. But what if you need a second opinion?
November 2, 2011
Finding long, fulfilling articles to read is both rewarding and relaxing, but reading articles on your web browser isn’t always ideal. Epub files can be read on most e-readers, including your Android and iOS devices, so you know you will be able to read this file on pretty much any device. dotEPUB is simple to use, and useful for anyone who regularly reads long articles.
July 30, 2011
If you are often on Gmail, you most likely know how many things you can actually do with it (apart from readings and sending mail). We have already shared quite a few tips on how Gmail can be turned into a multitasking tool but it is still amazing how this great free email service can come in handy for various purposes.
June 21, 2011
Bookmarklets are unsuspicious little helpers that sit in your browser’s bookmarks bar. Unlike your regular bookmarks, they don’t archive a URL, rather bookmarklets are small java applets with a one-click functionality. There are hundreds of bookmarklets and each can complete a different task. In this article I want to show you 6 bookmarklets that can help boost your web surfing speed.
June 1, 2011
In a world of micro blogging and mega long links, URL shortening can be insanely useful. Not only can it help to simplify and save space, it can also track links and reveal how often they have been opened. In this article I will introduce you to three URL shortening tools that work with either Firefox or Chrome or any other browser that supports javascript bookmarklets.
May 27, 2011
A simple and highly useful Safari extension, appropriately called SendTab, allows you to send a selected webpage to one or more computers on your network. When it arrives on the remote computer, it automatically downloads in your networked web browser. It happens within seconds. This extension works best if you’re a Safari or Chrome user.
April 29, 2011
What if you wanted to send someone a specific part or line of a webpage (instead of the entire page) as a link? A click on the link should then take the receiver directly to that specific part of the webpage. Citebite and Awesome Highlighter are the web apps that satisfy our double requirements of simplicity and utility.
April 12, 2011
Printing information from the web is often a challenge because websites are plastered with sidebars, images, advertisements, and other unprintable elements. What makes a website look fantastic is a real drag when printing because all of these items waste precious ink and paper. Rather than just printing everything, you can be smart and use one of the bookmarklet tools I will introduce below.
April 4, 2011
We have to deal with web forms and check boxes daily: to comment on any article, to subscribe to an email alerts, to fill in the contact form, etc. It is always worth looking for more and more possible ways to optimize the process. Here are few browser-based tools to make your forms more usable and friendly.
March 23, 2011
The Internet might be a great source of information, but it’s not always a great place to read that information. Some web owners try too hard to monetize their site that all of the advertisements prevent visitors from having a nice reading experience. Then there are also the other factors that make the situation worse, [...]
