Almost every desktop and laptop has USB (Universal Serial Bus) slots for flash storage devices. When you insert a USB stick, you must usually open Windows Explorer and click on the USB slot there to open files saved on it. However...
The system tray is the section at the right of the taskbar in Windows that includes a clock and a few small icons. You can expand the number of shortcut icons in the system tray with Tray Tools 2000. That’s a freeware packag...
We can all do our bit to save the rainforests. One way to do that is to print less paper, which will also save you some ink. This post covered how to edit pages before printing in Firefox, and you can also do that with the Print o...
You can open document files in Firefox from the menu bar. Click on the File button, Open File and then select a file to open in the browser. You can also open files by dragging and dropping them from the desktop to Firefox. To dra...
When browsing with Firefox, you can accidentally click on the X icons that close tabs. To ensure your tabs remain open, add Tabloc to Firefox. That’s an add-on that locks and protects your Firefox page tabs. Open the Tabloc ...
For a quick way to alter the colors in your photos forget about those photo applications packed with editing options. You should instead add the Color Surprise application to Windows XP, Vista or 7. The Color Surprise application ...
In this article, I told you about how we can select Firefox options and navigate pages with short mouse movement combinations. You can also do the same thing in Opera without any extensions. The more recent Opera versions include ...
The copy and paste tool in Windows is handy, but the Firefox browser does not have that option for page tabs. Wouldn’t it be great if you could copy Firefox page tabs so that they can be temporarily closed to free up space o...
TabFlip is a Firefox extension that lets you flip through your open page tabs like pages of a book. With this extension you can open page tabs without selecting them on the tab bar. Instead you press the right mouse button and dra...
The Google Chrome browser has better built-in translation options than Firefox. When you visit a site not in English, Google Chrome will offer to translate. Firefox has no such option, but you can quickly translate pages in the br...
Those searching for new Windows software and file shortcut icons can find them at websites such as Free Icons Webs. Alternatively, you can extract icons from any file in Windows with the freeware Icons from Files software. Icons f...
Those with the Mac OS X platform will probably be familiar with the Photo Booth application. That’s a Mac OS X application with which you can take webcam snapshots, and adds some effects to them. Now you can also add that to Windo...
This post covered how you can remove images, Flash and video from website pages with the Firefox QuickJava add-on. You can also remove images, video and Flash from Google Chrome pages for faster browsing. The Text Mode Google Chro...
Right-clicking on Google Chrome opens a context menu with various options. It has save, print and navigation options. However, it does not include a shortcut to your bookmarks. You can add your bookmarks to the Google Chrome conte...
More recent versions of Google Chrome have a New Tab page that includes a Google logo and search box. The addition of the search box provides a shortcut to Google, but also reduces the amount of space on the page for the thumbnail...
