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.
Do you often use Google services such as the search engine, Gmail and Calendar? If so, then you can add Google shortcuts to the Firefox browser. There are at least a couple of Firefox add-ons that add Google shortcuts to Firefox...
In a previous article, I’ve already covered how you can close all the Google Chrome page tabs at once. Firefox also has an add-on with which you can close all its open page tabs with a single click. That Firefox add-on is Cl...
Other articles have told you about how to customize the Firefox New Tab page with add-ons. However, you cannot organize the thumbnail previews on the New Tab page into groups with those add-ons. To organize New Tab page thumbnails...
Previous articles have covered how you can add shortcuts to the Windows desktop’s right-click context menu. However, the articles haven’t mentioned how to add cascading menus (otherwise submenus with arrows) to the con...
By default Windows Vista, 7 or 8 doesn’t show all file extensions in Windows Explorer. As such, known file type extensions such as mp3, txt, avi etc aren’t shown after the titles. However, Windows Explorer does include...
To open two or more website page tabs at once, you would usually need to open new browser windows. However, with the Tile Tabs Firefox add-on we can open multiple page tabs in the same browser window! The add-on displays tabs in t...
Do you get bored whilst browsing? If so check out the Destroy the Web extension. That’s a game add-on with which you can blast away website pages. Destroy the Web is a game that has a pulsating soundtrack, and clocks up high...
The Firefox Bookmark Toolbar gives you more direct access to your website bookmarks. You can add it to the browser by selecting the Open menu button > Customize > Show/ Hide Toolbars and Bookmarks Toolbar. However, the singl...
OpenOffice is a flexible freeware software package. As such, there are a few ways that you can customize the software suite’s toolbars. You can add new options to the toolbars, new toolbars and select alternative icons for t...
You can open website source code in Firefox by right-clicking a page and selecting View Page Source. That opens a small window with the page’s HTML coding. However, that window only shows the HTML. Firefox’s X – Ray ad...
You will find a lot of websites have email links on them. When you click on an email link it opens your default email software such as Outlook Express. However, many send emails via Yahoo, Gmail or other webmail accounts (email cl...
AOL shut down the Winamp media player in December 2013. It was once one of the best and widely used media players. The VLC Media Player is also one with plenty of options, and can play almost all media types. You can also add a Wi...
If you are at the bottom of a huge Web page, scrolling back to the top of the page with the mouse might take quite a few seconds. You cannot jump the scrollbar straight to the top or bottom of the page with the mouse. Sure, the Ho...
When you open a website page, JavaScript, Java, Flash, images, etc invariably slow things down. As such, the best way to speed up your browsing is to switch them off. Of course you will miss out on some content, but the upside is ...
Some browsers have options that you can select to reopen the page tabs from the last browsing session when you start up the browser. However, you cannot save multiple browser sessions. To save and restore multiple browsing session...