These days all the fuzz is about the Google+ a new social service in the same vein as Facebook. Although it has been just recently introduced, and for now seems to be available based on the invitations only, but it has already gained some following as some consider this to be more adoptable and usable for them than the Facebook. In any case competition is always good as now Facebook is also feeling the heat and has just recently introduced voice conversation facility right from the Facebook interface with the collaboration with Skype. However, with all the effort that Facebook Read More >
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After the release of the long awaited Firefox 4 Mozilla has really pushed the full throttle button on the development of new versions of the Firefox. Soon afterwards Mozilla released the Firefox 5 which was more of an incremental improvement over the Firefox 4. And just recently Firefox 6 has entered the beta stage. Furthermore Mozilla has updated the Aurora channel to Firefox 7. Which basically means alpha versions of the browser that has gone through minimal testing. And finally there are now nightly builds of Firefox 8 available that you might want to try if you really want to Read More >

Google Books is very useful service for many users interested to find some information pertaining to some specific topic, in particular to the people that are involved in research. You can quickly search for some related information, and view the related content of the book online. Unfortunately one of the main limitations of this service is that Google doesn’t provide any way to download the book for offline use. Only you can view them in the web browser online. Google Books Downloader is a free application that attempts to resolve this problem. It provides a very simple mechanism to download Read More >

Firefox 5 has been released ahead of the schedule and final version of this popular browser can be download right now. Firefox 5 includes a number of incremental enhancements as compared to the Firefox 4. Some of the new features include the CSS animations support, Do-Not-Track header preference that has been moved to the privacy section for increased visibility. Another notable thing is Firefox development channel switcher that has been introduced in previous Firefox beta has been now removed. Probably it wasn’t that much utilized by users anyway. Most of the changes are actually lying under the hood, for example Read More >

We have seen many options in the past that allows to extract audio data from videos such as those that are downloaded from YouTube or from any other source. But most of them require multiple steps to do so. If you are only interested in downloading YouTube videos as mp3 files then you have a much cleaner option in the form of uTube2mp3 – a nice little extension that has been recently released for Firefox. This adds a little speaker button next to the Like, Add To, Share, Flag section on YouTube that you can click to download the audio Read More >

It can happen sometimes that you created a Microsoft Word file or may be PDF document that contains a lot of images, or other multimedia content that increased it’s size significantly. This can lead to a number of problems including much more space consumption on the hard disk, problems to send it as an attachment through email. However, there happens to be a nice free software available called PocoDoc that aims to mitigate this issue. PocoDoc is basically a Windows application that recognize many common MS Office documents formats such as PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PDF and allows Read More >
If you are on a wide-screen monitor (which I think is true for most users these days as almost all laptops as well as computer-screens are shipping with wide-screen aspect ratio, I am sure you noticed the these white space borders on left and right sides when viewing a webpage in any web browser. ON wide-screen monitors this space goes to a waste unless you use two or more website windows open side-by-side or alternatively you zoom in to the webpage to get rid of these side white-borders. If you are using Google Chrome then Zoomy is a nice Read More >

After a few days delay (from the planned release schedule) finally Mozilla has released the first official beta of the Firefox 5.0. As we mentioned some time ago that based on their experiences with the Firefox 4 delays, Mozilla is shifting to a more rapid release cycle with the Firefox 5, 6 and future versions. Idea is to include only some incremental/small improvements in each new version but bring it to the market much faster. This is somewhat similar to the Google Chrome release cycle. Based on the quick impressions it seems that there is nothing substantial that has changed Read More >

Java Script is an essential part of any modern web browser these days. In fact, many complex and media rich interactive websites depend upon java script for the proper functionality. On the other hand this is java script that is a potential source for bringing infections to your system through some rogue scripts that can be injected by nasty malware based websites on the web out there. What a user most probably want in the web browser is a quick mechanism to enable/disable it based on the needs. Taking the case of Firefox it does provide the option to enable/disable Read More >


