Your computer’s desktop is the place where all of the icons reside. When you have all windows either closed or minimized, and all you see are the screen with icons, you’re looking at your desktop. For a lot of people, that screen is a huge mess. Whenever anything needs to be saved quickly, the [...] Read more »
It seems like every day there is something in the news about maintaining your privacy while on the internet. One extreme is not wanting ANY of your information available to anyone else (which means you pretty much have to not use any electronic devices). The other end of the spectrum is just throwing it [...] Read more »
Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest ones. Today I’m going to show you how you can de-clutter the page when you are viewing YouTube videos, or an Amazon product page. In order to take advantage of this, you need to use Firefox, Chrome, or Safari as your web browser. What I am [...] Read more »
[google1 count="on"] For those of you that have read my newsletter for a while, you know that I have been a fan of Firefox for quite a long time – years, in fact. And for a variety of good reasons – safety, ability to customize, speed, etc. I remember a few years ago when [...] Read more »
You probably search Google most commonly for websites that have information that you want or need. However, it has become more and more popular to search Google images as well (particularly if you are look for a picture of something). If you search in Google Images, you are fairly likely to come [...] Read more »
If you create a product and include the word “awesome” in the name, you better make sure your creation lives up to it. In the case of the Awesome Screenshot add-on for Firefox (or Chrome or Safari), I was not disappointed. If you ever have a need to show a picture of a [...] Read more »
Cookies in general are not necessarily a bad thing (just ask Cookie Monster!). Many times, when you visit a website, the site will place a cookie – a small bit of data – on your computer so that it remembers you when you come back. That’s why every time I go back [...] Read more »
Thanks to my friend Eileen this week for alerting me to a fantastic add-on for viewing content on the web: Readability. If you get your news from the internet, you know that it comes with a price. Not a monetary price necessarily, but an “annoyance” price. All you want to do is read [...] Read more »
For years, I have preferred to use Firefox as my default web browser (if you haven’t tried it, check it out here. It is reliable, and very customizable. Internet Explorer has made a lot of improvements with version 8, but I still use Firefox most of the time. If you use Firefox, today [...] Read more »
There’s something I have noticed about a lot of computer users. When they want to go to a particular website, they go up to the address bar and start typing, then they just look for the address in the drop-down list of previously visited websites. One more click, and there’s the site. But [...] Read more »
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