August 20, 2011
Google offers quite a few options to monitor recent news and updates. We have Google Alerts, Google News and Google Blog Search. However, sadly, none of these options are perfect and so therefore the best way to monitor recent pages indexed by Google around your search term is to scan daily through “Past 24 hours” results.
August 20, 2011
Stop hitting “next page” buttons. Continue reading the easy way – by continuing to scroll down. To this day some websites insist on splitting their articles across multiple pages. AutoPager, an extension for Firefox and Chrome, loads the next page’s content in the background so you can simply keep scrolling to keep reading.
August 15, 2011
The Add-on Bar was introduced in FireFox 4 and replaced the Status bar. The status bar was primarily removed to make the most of the browser real estate- which makes many of us wonder why the newly introduced Add-on bar is absolutely un-optimized in terms of saving the browser screen space. Three addons attempt to fix that shortcoming.
August 11, 2011
While most people are busy comparing Google+ with Facebook, and trying to figure out which one they should choose and use, there are those who have built tools to combine all of these social networks together and have the best of all worlds. One of these tools is G++, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox which will help you put your Facebook and Twitter stream into your Google+ interface.
August 6, 2011
It’s weird that Google has created its own social network without giving users the ability to search for other users’ real-time updates. There’s an option to search for users, but how about searching for what people are talking about on Google Plus? Now there is a way to do it.
August 1, 2011
Today, we’re going to take a look at a couple of browser extensions that will enhance your Reddit experience. One of them is an old fogey, so you might of already heard of it by now, but the other is a young buck that came out very recently. After using them both for a while, you’ll be a karma-collecting fiend.
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.
July 28, 2011
I have to admit that I’m generally not much of a fan for toolbars. In fact I hate them, thanks to their spam-related nature. Even those that weren’t spam weren’t on my nice list either. I just felt like the features weren’t of any real use. However, there happens to be a very elite number of toolbars that do make it into my nice list, and the one we’re talking about today is one of them.
July 27, 2011
It’s pretty clear to most people that use it, that Craiglist is one of the largest, if not the largest database of items and services for sale. Craigslist spans the entire world, and serves communities from the largest cities to the smallest towns. The only thing Craigslist lacks in a very big way is a front-end that makes any sense at all.
July 27, 2011
Sharp-tongues and foul-mouths are the staple of comment boxes. This is one of those little tips that can make the online world a much civil, if not a better place. Let’s take a look at two extensions for Firefox and Chrome which help you to filter out undesirable and abuse laden comments on YouTube specifically and other sites on the web.
