Whenever you go online, you unwittingly reveal information about yourself. Here are a few ways you can conceal your identity when you are online.
1. Use your browser’s privacy mode
Ever since Apple incorporated private browsing into Safari in 2005, other web browsers have taken note and developed their own systems of letting you surf the net [...]
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Most of us are aware of the Nigerian scam and the different variations of emails that are floating around. But recently I recently an email that is obviously a scam but the story is not the usual ‘my father was a rich man who died ….’
This email pretends to have been sent by FedEx. Here [...]
We are all familiar with Google.com. But did you know about Google.org?
Google.org is Google’s charity branch working towards all sorts of good causes including renewable energy, improving public services and using technology to predict and prevent possible threats like climate change and pandemics.
It is part of their efforts to track the spread of disease. They [...]
Google loves to get creative with its logo on holidays and special occasions by customizing their logo for a day. But what if you love one of those logos so much that you want to keep it all through the year.
Favorite doodle is a Greasemonkey script, which though developed by a Google employee, is not [...]
Google is a great source to search for images. But sometimes when you are searching for a particular image, you find an image that is related to what you are looking for but not exactly the one you are looking for.
However, Googles new labs feature called similar images, which you can find at similar-images.googlelabs.com, makes [...]
How many times have you come across web pages where you find only a portion of an article on the first page. The remaining portion of the article is spread over several other pages, and you have to click the Next button, sometimes several times, to read the rest of the story.
Splitting a long article [...]
Many of us have multiple accounts with one web site. Whether it be several gmail accounts or two separate twitter accounts or any such multiple accounts. But it is always a hassle to have to log out of each account to access another.
Internet Explorer
The newest version of Internet Explorer, IE8, already includes this feature.
In Internet [...]
If you are a regular Google Docs user, then you might have considered keeping a copy of all of your documents offline.
GDocBackup is a free utility that will download a copy of your online files to your hard disk for you. Run the software and it will check whether a back-up exists. If not, it’ll [...]
Google calendar can be a great way to keep track of your events. But since it is web based, you need to be online to keep the website open to check your events. This can be annoying if you do not have an always-on internet connection.
Ever wished you could convert a PDF file into a Microsoft Word document that you could edit?
You could opt for a pricey utility that converts a PDF file into a Word-friendly text. But the PDFtoWord web service accomplishes the same thing, for free.
If you have not yet heard of Wolframalpha, then you need to check it out. WolramAlpha calls itself a ‘computational knowledge engine’ and it can do a lot of stuff for you.
By default Gmail uses just Http protocol to transfer data. While it may not be an issue if you are just a casual email user, for people whom security is the primary concern, http may not be good enough.
If you like to read a lot of stuff on the web, but find that the cluttered web pages makes it hard to read, then Readability is for you.
Trying to decide what font to use can sometimes be a pain, especially when you have several fonts installed on your computer and if you are just cycling through your options one at a time.
Mozilla has confirmed that it will release the next major version of Firefox on Tuesday, June 30.
Firefox 3.5 is the first major revision of the popular open-source browser since version 3 landed a little over a year ago, in June of 2008. Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been [...]
So you are an avid user of twitter. You have subscribed to hundreds of RSS feeds. But what if someone like say, your mom or dad asks: What is twitter? or, What is this RSS thing exactly? or, what is World Wide Web.
It sure can be difficult to explain concepts like these to the uninformed. [...]
Google Maps is a great place to find vastly detailed street maps. But it is basically an online tool and Google doesn’t offer a way to save a map.
You could use the Print option to save the map as a pdf file but the limitation is that you would be able to print only what [...]
