One of the focus areas for many developers in the recent times for almost all of the major web browsers has been to find ways to minimize the use of vertical space that has traditionally been cluttered by the toolbars, bookmark bars, address bar and so on. Internet Explorer 9 is the recent example, just observe that how minimalistic is the GUI to maximize the vertical space available to show the currently open webpage. Firefox has also been following on the footsteps. In fact, in Firefox you can ...

Flash memory is getting cheaper & cheaper with each passing day, and no wonder that we can buy these flash drives with large amounts of capacity for very low prices these days. Now many years have actually passed since the USB flash drives have taken over the traditional floppy disks that we used to see in the good old days. And why not these USB flash drives offer higher capacity, speed and reliability (with no mechanical part). Surprisingly one features that USB flash drives have not inherited ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pretty common problem faced by many Android users particularly the ones that like to tinker a lot with their device such as flashing new custom ROMs is the loss of all the progress made in the installed games such as Angry Birds. As no data is backed up for these games. That means you have to start from scratch and that is not a good idea you know for such a lengthy and a difficult game! Here is a nice little trick to backup/restore your Angry Birds data on your Android device shared by mingkee ...

This year’s E3 was one of the greatest I think. We have seen some really exciting games coming on all major platforms. Even more impressive is the fact that most of the games that I think most interesting are also coming to the PC as well. So, this time PC is not ignored as much by the developers as I expected. Not to mention the announcements regarding the next-gen hardware from Nintendo as well as Sony. But that is a story for another day. Today is finally the last day of E3. I believe, I have ...

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 ...

Have you ever experienced accidental corruption of the important files such as word documents, images or say a PDF files? I am sure many of us do at least at some point in time, may be from power failure, file system errors or a virus infection. If this is the case you can use a nice free application File Repair to fix most these kind of errors and recover your important files. The software I am referring to is a Windows utility with a pretty generic name called File Repair. It can fix a wide variety ...

Firefox Plumber is an interesting new application that claims to fix the memory leak issues that Firefox is historically famous for. Although, with each new upcoming version Mozilla has improved the memory management of the browser and less and less bugs remain there. However, even if you use the latest Firefox 4 and make heavy use of it by opening many tabs with multimedia rich content and for sure after say an hour memory consumption shoots to 500MB or even more. This is particularly true if you ...

On the desktop front, most of us use the Windows 7 OS as the primary OS. There is still no luck for us to run the Windows 7 on our Android devices so far! However, you can enjoy the taste of the Windows 7 styled interface and theming complete with the boot animation, icons, a dock and clock on your now well known MIUI powered Android device by using the Windows 7 theme for the MIUI. Here is what it contains: - Bootanimation - Icons - Wallpaper - Lockscreen - Dock - Clock It ...