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Take Firefox On The Go With Firefox Portable Edition

Master — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:33:25 +0000

When you use different computers, browser settings vary. Unless you save your bookmarks to any online bookmarking site, you can’t take them with you. Loading someone else’s Firefox means different add-ons as well.

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Take Firefox On The Go With Firefox Portable Edition

Open PDFs in Firefox without Adobe Reader

Master — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:56:22 +0000

The latest Adobe X update reportedly does not play well with the latest version of Firefox. Many users report that when they try to open a PDF in Firefox, they are unable to scroll to see the entire document

Download YouTube Videos as MP3s and MP4s from a Toolbar

Master — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:55:48 +0000

We have found many ways to download YouTube videos as both MP3s and MP4s. However, none of these ways is infallible, and YouTube has started trying to block many of these downloaders.

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Download YouTube Videos as MP3s and MP4s from a Toolbar

Manage Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn from your Gmail

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:11:20 +0000

Keeping up with contacts on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn can be overwhelming. With an abundance of contacts on each service, remembering who is on what service and keeping up with their major life events requires daily devotion—or a good aggregator. If you use Chrome or Firefox, and have a Gmail account, Mingly can aggregate contacts Post from: Manage Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn from your Gmail

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Record and Replay Macros in Firefox

Master — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:39:56 +0000

Firefox is a wildly popular browser with a huge collection of add-ons for virtually any purpose.

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Control Your Facebook Privacy in Firefox

Master — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:15:04 +0000

Facebook’s privacy controls are notoriously dubious. Most users believe their posts and photos are only visible to their friends, but this simply is not true.

Fix the Firefox 4 “Files Open as Text” Error

Master — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:15:21 +0000

Firefox 4 is the latest release of the popular web browser. Experienced in beta testing, some users reported that the browser opened up files – especially music files – as text rather than launching them in the browser or in an external application such as Windows Media Player. The fault of the error actually lies Post from: Fix the Firefox 4 “Files Open as Text” Error

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Clear Temporary Files and Browsing History from All Browsers and Applications

admin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:27:56 +0000

Most heavy computer users have multiple browsers. While many of us prefer Chrome or Firefox, some services, like SharePoint, require Internet Explorer.

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Clear Temporary Files and Browsing History from All Browsers and Applications

Move the Reload, Stop, and Home Buttons on the Firefox 4 Toolbar

Master — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:13:54 +0000

Firefox 4 added some evolutionary features to the web browser that are sure to delight and frustrate long-time users.

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Move the Reload, Stop, and Home Buttons on the Firefox 4 Toolbar

Manage Add-ons in Firefox 4

admin — Sun, 08 May 2011 11:20:17 +0000

Firefox 4 has several new features that weren’t available in previous versions of the browser. The new Add-ons Manager makes it faster and easier to find and install add-ons in Firefox 4.

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Firefox 4 Tips: Using App Tabs

admin — Sun, 01 May 2011 11:08:52 +0000

Mozilla created Firefox 4 with an extremely useful feature – App Tabs. The purpose of App Tabs is to place any website in permanent tab from at the top of your Firefox window

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Firefox 4 Tips: Using Tab Groups

admin — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:34:03 +0000

For those who love using tabs, but tend to fill up the tab strip, Tab Groups are the perfect solution. With Tab Groups, you can sort your tabs in sets. This works well if you want to organize tabs by task or function.

Find Out when Facebook Friends Delete You

Master — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:17:28 +0000

Many people pride themselves on the number of Facebook friends they collect, so when that number decreases without any warning, they obviously want to know why.

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Find Out when Facebook Friends Delete You

How to Use the New Features in Yahoo Mail (Beta)

Master — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:20:26 +0000

Recently, after undergoing changes just a few months ago, Yahoo began sending notices to all of its email users telling them that they are going to stop supporting all current versions of the existing Yahoo mail interface and that those subscribers that wish to continue to use their account must upgrade to the new version. Fortunately, the updated version is much better than anything Yahoo has offered before, it’s faster, by far, looks better, is better organized, gives you more data space and is easier to use once you learn where everything is and how to use it.

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How to Use the New Features in Yahoo Mail (Beta)

Take Advantage of Window 7′s “Secret” Right-Click Feature

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:13:53 +0000

Many people who have been using Windows 7 for awhile might be surprised to learn that there is a not very well known secret right-click feature that can be used for all sorts of purposes. To see how the “secret” trick works, bring up any file manager, for this example, we’ll use Windows Explorer .

Generate Statistical Data About Your Facebook Friends

Master — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:36:39 +0000

Have you ever wondered which of your Facebook friends posts the most photos or the most status updates? Do you know how many of your Facebook friends went to college?

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How to Create Form Letters in Word 2010

Master — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:31:26 +0000

Sometimes you may want to create a letter that you will be sending to a lot of different people, but you’d like certain parts of it to be individualized to the addressee; parts such as the greeting, name, address, etc.; which means, you want to create a form letter, which is great, because Microsoft over the past several versions of Word has been making it easier to do so.

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How to Create Form Letters in Word 2010

How to Use the New Advanced Search Features in Windows 7

Master — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:22:58 +0000

With every new release of Windows, Microsoft has upgraded the search facility to allow users ever better ways to find the myriad of files, folders, images, videos and even e-mail on their computers. Windows 7 is no exception, though its advanced features are not very well known since Microsoft chose to hide them on the results page. In any event, the first step in finding something on your computer, is to click on the Start menu, and then type in something you’d like to find: Notice that as with Vista, you don’t have to type the Enter key, as Windows displays results based on each key you type

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Keep Private Files Hidden With MyWinLocker

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:06:48 +0000

If you have any files on your computer you’d rather not make public, give MyWinLocker a try. This software creates a separate partition on your hard drive, which can only be seen when you log in to the software itself. For instance, if MyWinLocker is not running, the partition will not be visible in My Computer’s listing of available drives.

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Track Activity with the Windows 7 Resource Monitor

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:58:39 +0000

In our continuing quest to find ways to make Windows 7 more comfortable to a Mac user switching over, we went searching for an equivalent to OS X’s Activity Monitor.

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Track Activity with the Windows 7 Resource Monitor

How to Access and Use Google Body Browser

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:59:25 +0000

Google, the omnipresent search provider, launched, with very little fanfare, something called, Google Body Browser in December 2010; and has maintained its presence on the web, though has not updated it as yet, as promised. The Google Body Browser is to the human body what Google Earth is, well, to planet Earth

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How to Access and Use Google Body Browser

How to Use Internet Explorer 9′s New Tabs Features

Master — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:31:08 +0000

With the release of IE9, Microsoft has clearly upped its game as competition from Google, Firefox, Safari, Opera and others have prompted it to completely revamp its browser.

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How to Use Internet Explorer 9′s New Tabs Features

Have Google Chrome Load a Custom URL when Opening a New Tab

Master — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:03:00 +0000

One of the more annoying things about Google Chrome, even with the recent update, is the lack of a place to tell your browser that you would like to simply load a web page when you click the New tab, rather than have to wait for the default page to load; locate the one you’re after, than load it.

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Best Extensions for Google Chrome Web Browser

admin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:46:19 +0000

Extensions are small programs that add extra features and functionality to the Chrome web browser. These lightweight applications are easy to install and use in Chrome.

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View Any Text in All of Your Available Fonts at the Same Time

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:36:04 +0000

Thousands of fonts are freely available throughout the Internet.

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View Any Text in All of Your Available Fonts at the Same Time