About MatthewA
Matthew is a freelancer who has produced a variety of software articles for sites such as Bright Hub and Captured Snapshot. He has an A - Level in ICT, at grade C, and is proficient with a number of software packages. Matthew also has a golf blog http://amateurgolfer.blogspot.com/.
Check out his book at http://battlesofthepacificwar.blogspot.co.uk/. Battles of the Pacific War 1941 -1945 recalls where, when and how the Pacific War was won and lost within the battlefields of the Pacific.
In addition to extensions, you can also add a variety of apps to Google Chrome. They can be opened by clicking the Show apps option on the Google Chrome bookmarks bar. However, you can also open and organize your Google Chrome app...
The Firefox browser doesn’t include much in the way of research tools. However, you can add a research tool to Firefox with the Trails add-on. With that add-on you can save fragments of text, images and subtitles to booklets...
Jump Lists were one of the great new additions to Windows 7. With the Jump Lists you can open application files directly from Start menu software shortcuts. The Jump Lists include a list of recent items from which you can open doc...
You can remove images from website pages in Google Chrome as covered in this post. You can also remove images from pages open in the Opera browser, but an alternative extension is required. The Images ON/OFF extension for Opera is...
Whenever you select a page from the Bookmarks menu, the menu closes. It would be better if the menu stayed open so that you can then select to open multiple pages without reopening it. As such, the Stay-Open Menu add-on keeps that...
Another article covered how you can add the Google Calendar to Chrome. In a similar fashion, you can also add Google Calendar to Opera. For that you will need to install the Google Calendar extension with which you can add event n...
If you have a variety of media players, you can set up custom global hotkeys for their play, skip forward and skip back options with Media Keys; and also for raising and reducing the volume. With that software you can register glo...
All browsers display tabs across the top of their windows, but vertical tab layouts is not something incorporated into Google Chrome, Firefox, IE, etc. However, with the vTabs extension we can add both a tab and bookmark sidebar t...
Grooveshark is a free music website where you can play and listen to a wide variety of music tracks. However, if there’s one thing that this website lacks, it’s the hotkeys for audio playback. Nevertheless, you can sti...
There are numerous app launchers that you can add to Windows for more direct access to programs, system options and folders. Those are largely additional taskbar or system tray app launchers. MouseExtender is a portable app launch...
Speech bubbles are an editing option with which you can add speech to your images. The freeware Paint.NET does not include any speech bubble option to select from, but you can add one to the program with a plug-in. The Dpy plug-in...
You can search selected keywords from the Google Chrome context menu with the Search Google option. However, the Highlighter to Search extension for Google Chrome adds a better search tool to the browser. With that you can instant...
You don’t necessarily have to add any image-editing software to your desktop to edit photos. There are a variety of Web apps that include editing options for images. Among them is the Fix Picture website that includes option...
Copy and paste are handy options for copying file titles into documents. To copy a file title from Windows Explorer, you would usually select the Rename option and then copy the text. However, with the freeware Copy Path to Clipbo...
You can add a variety of extra editing options to Paint.NET with plug-ins. One of the plug-in packs that you can add to the software is Dpy. That includes a variety of additional text editing effects among which is Spiral Text. Wi...