The Firefox findbar is a search tool that you can find keywords on pages with. Press Ctrl + F to open the findbar in Firefox. To customize the findbar, check out the FindBar Tweak add-on. Add the extension to Firefox from this pag...
Firefox doesn’t have any built-in options to change its menu, tab and address bar fonts with. However, there is a great Firefox add-on with which you can instantly select alternative fonts for the browser. With Theme Font an...
When you insert a CD/DVD or other devices (such as cameras and tablets) into your desktop or laptop, the AutoPlay window will probably open so long as you have the Windows Vista/7 or 8 platform. That’s the window in the shot...
This article provides details on how you can can customize your existing Firefox New Tab page with New Tab Tools. However, with the Fast Dial extension for Firefox we can add a completely new, New Tab page to Firefox from scratch ...
This article covered how you can paste unformatted text into MS Word. However, not every word processor has a paste without formatting option. As such, consider adding the Copy Plain Text 2 extension to Firefox to copy text from w...
Paint.Net is a freeware photography package, compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 platforms, packed full of editing options for your pictures. With its layer options you can combine, or merge, two images into one. This...
The Windows desktop context menu includes a New menu from which we can select various file types. Selecting a file type from that menu creates new shortcuts on the desktop. From the registry you can add a greater number of file ty...
Easter eggs come in various shapes and sizes, and I’m not talking about those of a chocolate variety! Numerous software packages and websites have their own collection of Easter eggs. In this article I told you about the Goo...
By default, almost all browsers store your downloads in a user profile Downloads folder. However, you can select alternative download folder locations via browser settings. This is how you can select alternative download folders i...
Windows Media Player is the media player included with Windows. Like most media players, it has a set of keyboard shortcuts to provide quicker access to options. These are a few of the Media Player’s handy keyboard shortcuts...
Windows 7 & Vista Start menu includes a user account picture at the top. That is a flat, 2D user account picture. However, with the freeware 3D User Picture we can add a more dynamic 3D alternative. You can add 3D User Picture...
This article covered how you can get a Windows 8 Metro-like page for the Google Chrome browser. However, that extension is exclusively for Chrome. You can add a Windows 8 Metro homepage to all the foremost browsers with EIGHT. EIG...
If your Windows 7 user account has a password on it, you might forget the login details for it. To ensure that you can always log into Windows 7, even if you enter an incorrect password, set up a password-reset disk. With one of t...
Wouldn’t it be great if you could record macros in Windows as you can within the OpenOffice and MS Office applications? With them you can record a selection of a series of options. Well, with the MouseController software you can a...
There are plenty of weather websites, but you must still find the forecasts with search engines. Alternatively, you could add a weather extension to your browser that provides a forecast shortcut. Among the weather extensions for ...
