These have been around for quite sometime now but you might want to check them out again. For newer Mozilla Firefox users, these are quite interesting. Firefox does actually have these so-called hidden pages. Call them easter eggs if you want but a bunch of these hidden pages are quite useful. You can just type [...]

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This add-on has been around for a long time now, I just keep forgetting to write about it. If you’re like me who has a habit of listening to music while browsing the web. Sure players such as Winamp can be set as an always-on-top toolbar or Windows Media Player automatically shrinks into your Taskbar. [...]

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One behavior that you might notice when typing something on the Google search field is that it pops out suggestions from your previous searches. Clearing your history is a good privacy and security measure. Especially when you search all sorts of “stuff” on the family computer. You don’t want your kid brother to come up [...]

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While I love Firefox’s stability, I’m not too keen about the environment it works in, especially when it’s running on Windows. Anything can happen on a Windows machine – crashes, corruption, failure and worst, unrecoverable data crashes. This means that everything you’ve been tweaking and fine-tuning, including Firefox will be gone. Unless, of course, you [...]

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I’ve been featuring a lot of add-ons lately with some toolbars like StumbleUpon, Web Developer, and Download Statusbar, all of which tend to take up some browser space. For those a bit conscious about your browsing space, you might want to trim down on some of the other things on your screen. Ever since I’ve [...]

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Ever had a problem with forums, boards, and even blog entry interfaces that have too small a text input area to type on? I have a habit of posting long-ish comments, so to me, it does. How about another add-on that lets you do just that. Here you go – Resizable Textarea. Yet another simple [...]

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I’ve had my fair share of coding web pages from CSS to the xHTML. It’s tough, especially when you’re a hardcore nut who refuses to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Dreamweaver. Just a text editor and Firefox, baby! While, being that old school has its satisfactions, it does also [...]

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If you’re one who works on different workstations or computers (shifting from one desktop to a laptop and back), then one issue you might have is keeping your bookmarks all in synch on all of your machines. Firefox and IE do have an option to export your bookmarks but who wants to do the tedious [...]

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It’s been a while since I logged on into an IRC channel to chat but I know many still prefer IRC over other chat services such as Yahoo! or instant messaging. MIRC was one of the more popular IRC clients back in the day and I remember getting nuked and bombed and contracting all sorts [...]

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With all the brouhaha of how Google and other web services can profile us through our searches and by logging our IP, it’s important to use anonymity tools. Tor is supposedly one of the better tools out there but from my experience, using its proxy service halved my speed. Plus, set-up can be quite a [...]

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It’s really the faddish thing to do nowadays but Flash sucks in terms of accessibility. Flash animations (used in banners and ads) can take too long to load. And they can be quite annoying when all you need is a piece of information (like a line of text perhaps). If you’re not really into Flash-designed [...]

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The grand game of numbers and statistics. Of market shares and user choice. So who’s the top dog in the browser battle? Still, Internet Explorer, baby. With around 4/5 of share in the US, Firefox has a long way to climb to take the title of King of Browser Hill with around 14%. But being [...]

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If there’s one thing that’s a bit annoying for me in Firefox, it’s the Downloads window that keeps popping up. And here’s an add-on to help me out with that quirk – Download Statusbar. What it does is it tidies up the Downloads window and turns it into a little bar in the status bar. [...]

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One of the tabs I usually keep open is my Google Personalized Homepage. For me, it’s like a car’s dashboard that’s too essential to just do away with. I lovingly customized to suit mine to suite my needs. One thing that I find a bit off though is the fact that I have to continuously [...]

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Google Pack is Google’s fun pack filled with useful apps that cater to everyone from newbies to advance users. In a press release yesterday, adds a security option and a new way to view pictures in its latest release of Google Pack. Google announced the inclusion of these new apps: Symantec Norton Security Scan: Get [...]

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