Column page formats are not something widely used for website design. As such, most pages have just one column of text that runs a long way down a browser window. However, with the Column Reader add-on for Firefox you can add a co...
Incognito mode is a browsing mode that erases website traces from browser page histories, search histories and more besides. Browsers such as Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer all have incognito modes that you can switch ...
YouTube is now the foremost video website. There are a number of YouTube extensions that you can add to browsers such as TweakTube. That’s a Firefox add-on which you can further customize YouTube video pages with. First, add...
A previous article covered how to highlight website page text with the Google Chrome browser. Firefox users can also highlight website page text with the Wired-Marker add-on. That’s an extension that saves highlighted conten...
To open a page link in another browser, you would usually copy and paste the URL into its address bar. Alternatively, you could try out the Browser View add-on for Firefox. That’s an extension which you can open alternative ...
URL Link is an add-on for the Firefox browser that you can open text on website pages as links with. With the add-on you select textual links and follow them as if they were real page links. In addition, it also converts mailto li...
Windows Sticky Notes are a handy accessory that you can stick notes to the desktop with. Although it might seem that they have little in the way in formatting options, there are, in fact, many ways that you can format them. For ex...
Opera doesn’t have any options that schedule website pages to open at a date and time. However, you can do that with the WebScheduler extension for the browser. WebScheduler is a nifty add-on for Opera that opens website pag...
With the SnapBook add-on, previously covered in this article, you can capture snippets from websites in the Firefox browser. Clipular is a comparable extension available for Google Chrome. With that you can cut snippets from websi...
The YouTube website has plenty of search options to find videos with. Nevertheless, with the Search on YouTube extension you can search for videos directly from the Google Chrome toolbar. The extension also plays the videos from t...
Aero is the glass effect in Windows Vista and 7 that you can select to turn on/off from system properties. However, you can set up an Aero On/Off shortcut in Windows. With this registry tweak you can add Aero On/Off options to the...
Keeping backups will ensure that you don’t lose files. As such, there are a multitude of utilities you can set up backups with. Not many of those utility packages include options to schedule backups with. Cyoteck CopyTools i...
Special Characters is an extension for Chrome that you can download and install for free to add any character or symbol to a forum post or other website text box. With this extension you can select a character or symbol to add to ...
TabNavigator is a Firefox add-on, covered in a previous article, that adds Alt + Tab navigation to cycle through open browser tabs with. You can also cycle through Google Chrome tabs with a hotkey much the same. Add the Recent Tab...
Search boxes are the standard search tools for websites. However, there’s a Drag and Drop Search extension for Google Chrome that introduces an innovative search approach. With that you can drag and drop selected keywords to...
