Browsers store all your activities and they do so mostly in the form of history. Though sometimes risky, it mostly helps us get back to certain websites or track our activities on a certain day. However, the interfaces that show history are usually cluttered and that’s on almost all the browsers. That means the history [...]
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A few days back we talked about the three best download managers for Firefox. If you are anything like me, then you probably like to mirror the add-ons you have on Firefox with similar extensions on Chrome. That is, if you use both browsers like I do. Even if you have chucked Firefox in favor [...]
How many open tabs do you generally work with in Chrome? My figure usually hovers around ten. If you are researching something deeply, then yours also could be around or over a double digit figure. Ever since tabbed browsing came into the browser world, tab management has become something of a necessity. When it comes [...]
Often we look out for ways to enhance our browser interfaces and new tab pages so that we may evolve towards a better and faster browsing experience. Previously, we have talked about ways to customize the new tab page in Google Chrome. We also told you how you could intelligently group your extensions. Though the [...]
Clicking the ‘More’ link below the YouTube videos helps you with little information. When it comes to music videos you like, it’s hardly going to satisfy your information appetite. Google search is close by, but sifting through the search results and getting to know an artist or singer is a chore you would rather leave [...]
When I say, YouTube has become my lifeline these days, trust me, I am not exaggerating. Now that I have started living alone, YouTube helps me a lot. Be it cooking and housekeeping tutorials, playing music videos, watching shows or other such stuff. There is hardly a day that goes without playing some videos on [...]
As a tech blogger you can often find me working with a full screen browser window. It’s either because it gives me a more complete view, or because I need to take better screenshots. But I also have more than a handful of tabs open, and quite often need to jump between URLs. For a [...]
Browsers have come a long way and evolved with time to make their interfaces contained, easy to use and have enhanced features. But the default new tab page in all the browsers doesn’t seem to reflect that. I mean, it’s either blank or will have a thumbnail of recently visited sites… but that gets boring [...]
There are a number of ways to send information to your Android phone (or any phone for that matter) from your computer. You use an online note-taking tool like Evernote that always keeps your data in sync, or may be use tools like Dropbox or SugarSync (you should have their corresponding apps on your phone [...]
The easy availability and installation of extensions in and from the Chrome Web Store means the users end up adding a number of extensions which they tend to lose track of over a period of time. That’s not bad though… here at Guiding Tech we’ve already had so many posts on cool Chrome extensions. And [...]
How many of you fail to get rid of tab clutter while you are browsing? How many of you open too many tabs that it becomes difficult for you find a specific tab? Again, how many of you keep a lot of tabs open just to view them later in the fear that you may [...]
Whenever I get some free time online, I resort to 2 of my favorite pastimes: scouring through Wikipedia or devouring videos on YouTube. I have already talked about two extensions I use in Chrome to enhance my Wikipedia browsing, and today I will reveal the extensions that help me manage YouTube videos in Chrome. If [...]
You probably don’t know that when Google chrome automatically updates itself (or you do that manually), it does not overwrite itself over the older version. Instead it makes a fresh installation. Now that’s all fine. The problem is that even after the new version is installed on the system, the older versions are never deleted [...]
Sometimes little things make a big difference. Let’s take the example of the warning dialog which pops up in Firefox when we try to close multiple tabs. The warning tab is actually a safeguard against losing work when you accidently close the browser. I have often made the mistake when I absentmindedly closed a tab [...]
Suppose you are browsing through some restricted websites in your workplace or let’s say you’re in your college dorm and someone to whom you are answerable for your behavior comes looking for you. Of course, you can close your browser with a simple click to save yourself from embarrassment, but it will leave that person [...]
Back in college days, I used to work on various projects and all of them needed heavy documentation. Though we had a personal computer in our hostel rooms, a decent internet connection was always a problem, and thus the college cybercafé was the only savior. While searching for reference material in the cafe, I usually [...]
If you intend to introduce your kids to the world of computer/online gaming then it is best that you start with some simple, interactive games that help them learn while playing. Chrome users could start by trying out some apps as they are quick to install and get started with compared to a third-party software [...]
A browser remembers every move you make on the web. The idea is benign – to improve your browsing by way of faster loading times or easily retrievable URLs. But the footprints left behind also open up a gaping hole in our privacy. On one front, someone else using the same computer can easily track [...]
