A signature is a personal statement. With the relative demise of snail mail, the signature was starting to lose its dash and droop. But WiseStamp brings back the coolness to drab emails and allows you to make a social statement. WiseStamp and its email apps enable you to customize your email signatures with links to [...]
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When we surf the web, our browsers store copies of recently visited webpages locally; commonly graphic files and HTML pages. The purpose is to speed up a site’s page loading the next time you visit the same page. Just like any other browser, Firefox also stores it all in the internet cache. Page loading speeds [...]
Note-taking software is nothing new. Suites like Evernote have been around for eons, and have remained popular. Nonetheless, with users starting to want more and more access to not only their notes, but also bookmarks and interesting articles, a service bringing all this together was bound to come into the world. This service named Memonic [...]
Yesterday, we talked about changing default browser manually and I showed how we can set Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer as the default browser without the need to restart them. Today, we will see how to make Safari or Opera as your default browser. The scenario remains the same – you had been using Safari [...]
So the other day I downloaded and installed the latest version of Opera. I had heard good things about this new version and wanted to give it a shot. Strangely, during the installation process, I didn’t see any option to not set it as default browser. It quickly installed and set itself as the default [...]
Problem: You’ve got a number of bookmarks neatly organized in various folders in your browser. Now you want to share some of them with a friend. How do you get that done in the easiest and quickest possible way? Turns out that sharing a bookmarks folder isn’t that straight-forward. Of course you can copy-paste and [...]
The search for a new home page for your browser (or a startpage as they are known as) entails certain criteria. Should it have more or less distraction? Should it be focused and simple, or flashy and informative? Myfav.es is a browser startpage that displays icons hyperlinked to your favorite websites. . It’s a very [...]
The Internet can be a scary place, teeming with spam, contest scams, malicious viruses, and copycat websites. With that many factors working against us, the average web user could definitely use some protection from their browser. Luckily, all of the contemporary browsers out there (read: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer) have built-in security features. [...]
Cookies. No, not the delicious kind with the chocolate, sugar, the icing and the tastiness. I am talking about Internet cookies, little pieces of information stored in your web browser comprised of text strings. Most commonly, they are used to store things like usernames so that you do not need to input them every time [...]
Internet Explorer has never been at the top when it comes to web browsing, yet it is still one of the most widely used browser on the planet and that is why we continue to highlight features that make IE useful and dare I say exciting? The fact that they are making an honest attempt [...]
The internet is a sea of ever-growing content, mainly articles. Whether it be through a major news outlet or an independent blog, there’s an article on almost anything you want to find. However, there are many things that can end up being unpleasant when going through these articles. Examples are annoying advertisements, inconsistent themes, sans-serif [...]
Personally, I can’t imagine life without having my browser store the numerous passwords I use across the world wide web. In my humble opinion, no one gets this important job done quite as well as Firefox, or rather it’s Master Password+ add-on (unless you use a password manager, but more on that in another post). [...]
If there are a bunch of sites that you visit every day then setting up bookmark keywords for them would be an intelligent thing to do. Like, I have set the letter ‘g’ as the keyword for Guiding Tech. That means, I could just type the letter g in the address bar of Firefox or [...]
The brilliant minds that brought you the Opera web browser have another enticing piece of software available. It’s called Opera Unite and it is a powerful file sharing tool that integrates with the Opera web browser. It could be used to easily share and send large files from your computer, via the internet. No more [...]
If you are like me, you probably have dozens of tabs open in your browser at any point of time. You know that as more tabs get accumulated, it becomes difficult to manage them and find the right ones quickly. And I believe that this is a fairly common problem affecting most of us in [...]
Yesterday, we learnt how we can run desktop apps from browser, without installing them on the computer, using Spoon. Today, we will use it to run different versions of Internet Explorer on the same PC. I hadn’t tested Microsoft’s latest Internet Explorer version (IE 9 Beta) yet, so I decided to use Spoon to give [...]
You might know about popular virtualization tools like VMware and Sun Virtualbox. These tools can virtualize an operating system thereby helping you run different operating systems, like Windows and Linux, on the same computer and without the need to dual boot. The operating systems run in separate windows, just like two different apps. Spoon ( [...]
Google Chrome has been steadily gaining in the browser market share since its launch 2 years ago. It’s not without its flaws but it definitely falls in the “kinda cool” category. Its simplicity and minimalistic, yet feature-rich, interface caused a lot of users to ditch their old and trusted browser in favor of this new [...]
Here’s a neat trick that can come in handy when a particular website doesn’t seem to load correctly or doesn’t display the latest content. Now, we have talked about what is a browser cache and how to clear it before. Browser cache is basically the information like stylesheets, scripts etc, stored by sites in your [...]
