Have you been in a situation when you’ve got zillions of tabs open in Firefox, and it crashes suddenly…and when you restart the browser, it tries to restore all those tabs and eats up your computer’s memory. It isn’t an uncommon situation, right ? The solution to the problem is an add-on called BarTab. It [...]
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Online translating tools come in handy when you need to talk people of other country on internet who don’t know your language. Also, you need them if you come across an article in a foreign language and want to check out what it means. Nicetranslator is definitely one of the quickest web based translation tools [...]
Facebook To-Go with Instant Notifications is a cool extension for Google Chrome that lets you keep a track of your Facebook stream without requiring you to open it in a new tab or browser window. This extension is simple to use. After installing it, just click on its icon and it pops up a small [...]
Many computer users prefer notepad for taking notes. Recently we covered Scribbly, a quick desktop note taking & emailing tool. If you use Google Chrome and would rather prefer staying in your browser and take notes right inside it then Chromepad will help you. It is a useful extension for Google Chrome and is very [...]
While uploading photos to Facebook is easy, downloading them isn’t. Facebook does not offer any direct method to bulk-download your albums or pictures. You have to rely on external tools if you intend to download photos from Facebook (or do it manually for each image which could be a cumbersome task). If you are a [...]
While there are different kinds of alarm clocks, and alarm clock feature on cellphones, sometimes an online alarm clock is the best bet. Whether you need to take a short nap at work, or just want to be reminded about something at a specified time, you could just quickly open a new browser window, set [...]
Zeer is a food product review site on which you can find information on more than 114,000 food products. It includes detailed information on various food items that include reviews by users, rating of products ingredient data and nutritional information. You can search for any product by factors such as nutrients, vitamins, calories, or ratings. [...]
Problem: You send an email to someone regarding progress of work or any other important subject. He gets the email, reads it and forgets to follow up. And since you deal with a huge number of emails everyday, you also forget about that email. And finally, one day you realize that the guy hasn’t followed [...]
While Photoshop remains the ultimate image editing tool, it isn’t a simple tool to use. Luckily, there are number of specialized image tools available that let people perform complex image editing functions easily. Citrify is one such tool that comes as both a web app and desktop tool. It lets you edit images and add [...]
Youtube recently launched a video speed display dashboard that displays gives you an idea of your video loading speed and benchmarks it against the global average. You can see the one month average video speed (in Kbps) of users in your city, state, country, and global. This database updates per day so that you can [...]
Carryout text is a simple and hassle-free web app which lets you convert text to downloadable mp3 audio files. You can listen to the audio on your computer or you can carry this file along with you on your mobile phone or mp3 player. Conversion of file is simple. Just copy paste the text you [...]
Amazon, as you know, is the premier site for purchasing different kinds of products. Apart from purchasing, you can also preview images of products in the inbuilt image viewer. But this image viewer is little clumsy. Also, watching images by clicking through them one by one is a time consuming task. PictureFox addon for Firefox [...]
If you want to convert any file into a PDF document, try Online PDF Generator. It’s a fast and hassle free web service that can generate the corresponding PDF document from a supported file within few seconds. All you have to do is browse for a file on your computer and hit the “Generate PDF” [...]
There are various sites which require auto-refresh but don’t have it yet. It could be a site that serves news updates or a social site that shows status updates of your friends (Twitter recently got auto-refresh). RefreshThis is a web based service which, as the name indicates, refreshes websites automatically. If you are watching minute [...]
Sharing an YouTube video isn’t difficult. You can send the url of the video to your friends via email or just ask them to search YouTube to find that video. Simple, right ? But it isn’t fun. Imagine watching the video together with your friends and also interacting and commenting on it while watching it…..now [...]
We talked about Drop.io, a tool that helps you share large files over the internet, sometime back. If you are looking for a simpler solution than WeTransfer could help you. WeTransfer provides a simple and easy way to send large files over the internet. You can share up to 2GB of files online using this [...]
If you own a website, you would know that downtimes are something which tend to happen now and then. It could be due to a server problem or a sudden surge in traffic. Whatever may be the reason, you can’t avoid site downtimes 100%. And that’s the reason there are a number of website monitoring [...]
If you are a designer, heck even if you aren’t and you are looking for an online tool to create flowcharts and diagrams, then LovelyCharts is a perfect web based application for you. LovelyCharts is a feature-rich online tool that can help you create amazing diagrams. You can create flow charts, sitemaps, network diagrams, wireframes [...]
If you have missed a chance to be a part of the classes in a top university like Harvard, MIT or Stanford and really want to check out some of the lectures there, then AcademicEarth can help you. AcademicEarth is a free service which provides recorded videos of university lectures online. The service doesn’t need [...]
