May 6, 2010
Two popular questions these days seem to be “what browser do you use?” and “are you thinking about switching browsers?” For years Internet Explorer has been by far the most used browser (one of the reasons being it comes packaged with Microsoft Windows). But Firefox has been gaining great popularity and many people have chosen [...]
April 27, 2010
There are some very effective methods to get around firewalls. However, the best of them involve setting up your own proxy server, remote access, VPNs, tunnels, proxy software and all sorts of other methods that involve a little bit of foresight and planning (not to mention some geek smarts). But none of these fancy fixes [...]
April 19, 2010
Save a complete page so that I can read it later? Why would I need to do that? After all, don’t we have those things called bookmarks? That’s fine as long as the web connection holds. Even a simple thing as a journey from Point A to Point B could take us away from our [...]
April 14, 2010
Despite the fact that there are plenty of ways to create a 404 error page more usable and fun, most web developers still never bother to and you land on a totally boring error page that suggests no other option other than leaving it. Or sometimes (when you mistype the URL) you end up on [...]
March 17, 2010
I use FireFox’s Location Bar (or Address bar or awesome bar) far more often than any other browser bar. This is where I navigate to web pages from, this is where I search from – obviously this is the most important part of the browser. Quite naturally, if you configure the Firefox address bar to [...]
March 14, 2010
The price of a Kindle might dive in these next few days. Heck, for all you know, Torrentleech might open subscriptions again. There’s a lot of stuff that you should keep an eye on. It certainly pays off. Weeks, or even months later, you stumble about that same page again. The old Kindle is no [...]
March 4, 2010
You guys are awesome. In my article last week about why Google is my homepage, I requested you all share with me your homepage of choice. Little did I know how many of you would share: the article received tons of comments, during which 12 really good homepage ideas were shared. I couldn’t risk these [...]
February 24, 2010
Home pages have perhaps never been less relevant than now, the age of tabbed browsing and browsers capable of restoring previous sessions. Since I decided to make Google my home page in 2003, I’ve never really thought of switching. There are some good reasons for my decision to make Google my home page. Google’s home [...]
February 17, 2010
One of the main things that held back Chrome, Google’s offering in the browser wars, was its lack of plugins. Compared to Firefox, famous for its thousands of extensions, Chrome was static and unchangeable – even though it was by far the fastest browser on the market. That changed recently when Google unrolled extensions for [...]
February 14, 2010
I remember the very first reason why I started using Firefox which was its “tabbing” feature (it was long ago and Internet Explorer didn’t have tabs then). It seemed so handy that I was amazed. Now I still use Firefox (even though all other browsers have tabs now) and I am still pretty excited at [...]
