Internet Explorer doesn’t have a huge number of extensions compared to alternative browsers. However, one notable extension you can to IE is Diff-IE that highlights website updates. That highlights any new text added to the ...
To obtain JPEG images from documents that you don’t already have on your hard disk, you would have to save each of the pictures in them separately. Although you could also add deJpeg 2.0 to Windows. That’s a freeware p...
You can capture desktop snapshots with the PrtScn key. With additional software you can also capture screencasts, which are digital recordings. You can capture a recording of the Windows desktop with the GifCam software. GifCam ca...
The Control Panel in Windows includes shortcuts to numerous system tools and options. However, the Recycle Bin is not included. You can add a Recycle Bin, and other shortcuts to the Control Panel with My Computer Tweaker that has ...
If you often search with a variety of search engines, check out the Bookolio extension for Google Chrome. That’s an extension which adds 21 search engines shortcuts to the New Tab page. In addition, it also adds your bookmarks, ap...
If you often copy and paste text from website pages to take notes, consider adding the DashNotes extension to Google Chrome. With that extension you can not only copy selected text directly from a website page to the brower’s New ...
The MS Office applications keep a handy list of recently opened files that you can open by selecting the File tab and Recent. However, it’s not so handy when it starts to include lots of documents you no longer need to access. Thi...
Copying snippets of text from a website page with the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V hotkeys is one way you can take notes when browsing. For that you would usually open a word processor, copy text into it and then save the notes. However,...
The foremost browsers such as Chrome and Firefox have a variety of extensions that enable you to open multiple page tabs within the same window, but don’t have any built-in options for that. Consequently, it’s worth no...
Paint.NET is a freeware image-editing application that you can add a variety of editing options to with plug-ins. One plug-in you can add to Paint.NET is TechnoRobbo’s Smudger V2.2, which adds a tool to smudge and smear your...
Minimized app windows on the taskbar included labels prior to Windows 7. However, Microsoft added icons to the taskbar windows to replace labels in Windows 7. Nevertheless, you can still restore the labels on the Windows 7 taskbar...
If you’ve found a video with a great background soundtrack, you can extract that into a separate audio file with a few software packages. Among them is the freeware video editor Avidemux. With that you can save video audio a...
This article told you about the Speed Dials extension that adds speed dials to the Google Chrome New Tab page. However, that adds two dimensional speed dials to the page. With Speed Dial [FVD] you can add 3D speed dials and an app...
If you have a huge collection of movies, on or off your desktop/laptop, you can keep track of them with a movie catalog (or database). Sure, a movie database could be set up with application software such as Access. However, with ...
Running lots of add-ons can slow your browser down. Each of those add-ons hog their own amount of RAM, and so one of the best ways to speed up a browser is to close them. To find details for Firefox’s add-on RAM consumption,...
