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Eight ways to conceal your identity online

December 8, 2009 2 comments

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 [...]

New scam email sent in the name of FedEx

November 23, 2009 0 comments

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. [...]

Find related images with Google

October 25, 2009 1 comment

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, [...]

Browse multi-page articles without clicking on the Next button

October 20, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

Remove the clutter around what you are reading

July 8, 2009 0 comments

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.

Everything explained in Plain English @ CC

June 23, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

Gazaro – Helps you find if a deal is really good

May 10, 2009 0 comments

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 [...]

Watching YouTube videos in High Quality mode

May 9, 2009 1 comment

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 [...]

How to find the original link behind a shortened url

April 27, 2009 1 comment

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 [...]

Quickly format any web page for printing with Printwhatyoulike

November 25, 2008 2 comments

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 [...]

Infinitube – Make YouTube videos go on and on and on…

August 6, 2008 1 comment

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 [...]

China now has the most online users in the world

July 27, 2008 0 comments

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 [...]

Refresh a web page automatically at set intervals

July 21, 2008 2 comments

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.

How to check if a web site is down for everyone or just you

July 15, 2008 3 comments

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 [...]

Woonz.com – Search and Download music and audio files

January 25, 2008 0 comments

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 [...]

Eight ways to conceal your identity online

New scam email sent in the name of FedEx

Find related images with Google

Browse multi-page articles without clicking on the Next button

Remove the clutter around what you are reading

Everything explained in Plain English @ CC

Gazaro – Helps you find if a deal is really good

Watching YouTube videos in High Quality mode

How to find the original link behind a shortened url

Quickly format any web page for printing with Printwhatyoulike

Infinitube – Make YouTube videos go on and on and on…

China now has the most online users in the world

Refresh a web page automatically at set intervals

How to check if a web site is down for everyone or just you

Woonz.com – Search and Download music and audio files

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