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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 [...]
Read More » New scam email sent in the name of FedEx
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. [...]
Read More » Find related images with Google
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, [...]
Read More » Browse multi-page articles without clicking on the Next button
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 [...]
Read More » Remove the clutter around what you are reading
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.
Read More » Everything explained in Plain English @ CC
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 [...]
Read More » Gazaro – Helps you find if a deal is really good
There are several services that help you search the web for goods deals. Gazaro does the same but with a difference. Gazaro analyzes the price history of a product and tells you whether the price a site offers is really a good deal based on past prices. For example, a flat-screen TV for $1200 may [...]
Read More » Watching YouTube videos in High Quality mode
If you are a regular watcher of youtube videos you must be already aware that many of the videos are available in two modes, normal and high quality and depending on your internet speed you could choose to watch the video in the preferred mode. By default a video loads up in either normal quality [...]
Read More » How to find the original link behind a shortened url
There are numerous url shortening services like for example tinyurl.com, that help us convert long urls into short and manageable urls. But one of the problems with a shortened url is that, when you come across one either in your mail, or a website or in a forum, there is no way of knowing where [...]
Read More » Quickly format any web page for printing with Printwhatyoulike
Printwhatyoulike is an online tool that lets you make any web page printer friendly. Quite often, when we have to print a web page which does not have a printer friendly version, we need to print the whole page and we end up with a printout full of ads, empty spaces and all sorts of [...]
Read More » Infinitube – Make YouTube videos go on and on and on…
If you spend a lot of time watching YouTube, then Infinitube.net is for you. Infinitube is a free service that lets you keep YouTube going on forever. Just type in a keyword for the type of videos you want to watch and the site will create a virtually endless playlist of videos from YouTube. What [...]
Read More » China now has the most online users in the world
In spite of the heavy restrictions and frequent censorship by the government, China has managed to surpass the United States for the most online users in the world. The China Internet Network Information Center has compiled the numbers which indicate that China now has 253 million total Web surfers, with the United States coming in [...]
Read More » Refresh a web page automatically at set intervals
Just a few days back I was talking to one of my friends about how in Opera you can get a page to automatically refresh at set intervals. This could be pretty useful when you are watching a sports scorecard, online auctions or some such stuff which keeps changing by the minute or second.
Read More » How to check if a web site is down for everyone or just you
Suppose you are trying to access a particular web site, but the site appears down, your first thoughts are, ‘Is the web site not accessible for anyone or is it only for me?’. If you are in an office you could probably check it up on another computer or ask your colleague to check it [...]
Read More » Woonz.com – Search and Download music and audio files
Searching for music files? Check out Woonz.com. Woonz is basically a search engine, specifically for searching audio files for download. You can search by artist, band name or track name, if it is music you are searching, or you could search for any audio file using keywords. No files are cached or stored on Woonz [...]
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