I’m sure you’ve faced times when your Twitter stream, or Facebook profile feed is dominated by updates concerning a particular issue or a trend which you have no interest in. From my own experience, I can tell that it’s frustrating. So how to prevent this from happening without mass unfollowing and mass unfriending people? Well, [...]
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This is a guest post by Gouthaman, a freelance tech blogger. Although there are various tools and methods you could use for capturing screenshot of a webpage, if it’s done through a browser extension, the process is usually faster and easier. This article discusses 3 such screen capture utilities for Google Chrome. If you are [...]
We published an article sometime ago that showcased 4 web based tools to convert webpages to PDF. Roger, one of our readers, mentioned the Web2PDF Firefox add-on in his comment. The add-on helps you directly convert webpages to PDF files and store or share them online. Here’s the options window which pops up after you [...]
In past we have talked about extensions like Skipscreen Firefox addon and Auto Free Rapidshare For Chrome that let you bypass waiting time for downloading files on sites like Rapidshare, Megauploader etc. Rapidshare Autowait + Queue is a similar chrome extension except that it has one unique features – ability to download Rapidshare files in [...]
World cup football has already gripped the whole world in its magic. And we’ve been doing our bit too. We told you about top sites to stream World cup live on your computer and how to subscribe to your favorite team’s match schedule using Google calendar. Here comes the next one. If you are a [...]
The bookmark toolbar in Firefox is quite useful if you visit certain sites everyday. You could group them in a folder and then access them quickly when required. You could also open all of them at once by right-clicking on the folder and clicking on “Open All in Tabs”. While it is easy to add [...]
If you remember, we talked about a Firefox addon called Skipscreen that helps you bypass ads and pop ups while downloading from Rapidshare and takes you directly to the screen that shows waiting time. Auto Free Rapidshare could be called Skipscreen for Chrome. It does in Chrome what Skipscreen does in Firefox i.e bypassing the [...]
Facebook, the most popular social network, is also a huge repository of personal data. There are messages, photos, pictures and much more uploaded by the users. And you stand to lose all of it if your Facebook account gets disabled (yes, it does happen). Good that there are tools to backup your Facebook data. But [...]
Right, so it seems that it’s Chrome day here at Guiding Tech. First, we showed you how you could solve the Xmarks Chrome sync issue. And now, we are back here with a Feature post on Chrome. The best thing about add-ons in Chrome is that trying them out is quicker and easier, than, lets [...]
Suppose you find a webpage having too many links and you want to open few of them in new tabs. The time-taking way is to click them one by one to open them. But since we believe in making our readers smart and productive, we’ll tell you a better way to go about it. We’ll [...]
Popular file hosting services such as Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Mediafile etc provide both free and premium file sharing options. But downloading files for free isn’t a smooth ride. They try to lure you into buying a premium account by popping up ads, delaying the download and other such tricks. Skipscreen is a nifty Firefox add-on that [...]
If you are a frequent visitor to gaming sites and spend a lot of time playing browser/flash based games then you are gonna love this tool. Known as Game Button, this Google Chrome extension gives you quick access to more than 250 games. You can play more than 250 games directly from your browser without [...]
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 [...]
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) is an amazing Firefox browser add-on which lets you quickly and easily backup all your Firefox extensions, bookmarks, themes, cookies, preferences, user names and passwords. This extension creates a backup file at a specified location on your computer and you can restore your Firefox profile with the help of that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Usually when Google Chrome crashes, it gives you a restore tabs option when you open the browser again. However, there could be other occasions when you need to restore tabs or save a group of open tabs, so that all your work is available when you open the browser next time. This article discusses the [...]
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 [...]
YouSearch is a nifty add-on for Google Chrome that helps you search and watch YouTube videos without requiring you to open a new tab or browser window. The add-on isn’t complicated. Once installed, it shows up as a small icon in the Chrome extensions bar. If you click on it, it pops up a small [...]
