I never really used RealPlayer save perhaps during the days when it was the only streaming player online. Yes, that would probably back when I was using a 33.6 kbps dial-up connection. I’ve never really used it again with all the other media and as more and more websites shifting their content out of [...]

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I was scanning all of the Firefox Quick Tips that I’ve written for the past 5 months and I think I’ve covered a wide range of tweaks and add-ons. But despite all of this, I think I left out one of the most helpful add-ons in Firefox’s arsenal - Greasemonkey. And I’ve been using [...]

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A while back, I posted about the initial run of the Google slideshow viewer. It was only available to chosen accounts. But today seems to be the lucky day for all of us. Google just made this feature available to all.
PowerPoint attachments now have a “View as Slideshow” option. A similar feature allowing viewing [...]

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Many of the information you find online is presented via tables. And why not? Data like statistics is best seen in an organized matrix. Citing them in paragraph form would only confuse the viewer. HTML has had the feature to display tables for a long while now and it’s pretty common to find not [...]

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One of the drawbacks of having lots of add-ons is the unnecessary clutter that gets accumulated in Firefox’s menus including the context menu. My menus are getting too messy and I’ve reached a point where right-clicking has become more of a chore than a shortcut.
That’s when I found this (heaven-sent) add-on to help me [...]

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Toolbars can really take up a lot of space and we’ve been posting tips on browsing space recovery. Here’s another way to reclaim browsing space by reducing the padding around toolbar buttons. Even a pixel of reclaimed space can make a lot of difference.

Open your userChrome.css (I recommend using ChromEdit Plus)
Insert this code at [...]

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Here are some keyboard shortcuts for flipping through browser tabs in Mac OS X. If you happen to have different browsers, you might find the keyboard shortcuts a bit different from each other like how Firefox works differently from Safari. Apple Gazette shares these tips:
In Firefox
Hold Option+Command, then use the the left and right [...]

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I love favicons. It helps me associate sites easily with their icons. I don’t have to read through names and descriptions and that saves me a lot of time. But for those who’d rather have a neater bookmarks folder, this little tweak may be of service. You can disable favicons from displaying by doing [...]

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Here’s a tip for those who want more customization with their Firefox interface. This tweak allows you to use a custom background image for your toolbars.

Pick an image in GIF format (it must be)
Place it in the same directory as the userChrome.css
Open your userChrome.css (Here’s how)
Insert this code at the bottom
/*Use a custom background [...]

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For those of you, not familiar with leet (or 1337), it’s a way of writing that substitutes similar looking characters for the letters in a word. For example l in “leet” becomes 1, e becomes, 3 and t becomes 7. It’s supposed to be the elite computer user’s (hacker’s) language.
Now how about transforming typed [...]

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Last week, Google Maps added a preview of Street View, a feature that allows viewing of 360 degree views down to the street level. And it seems that Google’s improvements don’t stop there. Google just got Transit data and incorporated them to Maps and Earth.
Transit’s data includes public transportation information - where these are [...]

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Personally, I think having both the throbber and the progress bar is overkill since both indicate if the page is still actively loading. I prefer just having the progress bar since it also serves as a meter for how far the page is in the loading process.
However, some might find the progress bar a [...]

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If you’re a serious browser fiend who works across multiple pages at a time, you may find tab browsing (even in its glory) a bit insufficient. You may want to have your pages displayed all at the same time. This feature would be really helpful to researchers who would want to compare two or [...]

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This seems pretty straightforward but sometimes, it’s that straightforward functionality that you need. By default, Firefox does rich text copying, meaning that when you copy text from the browser, you also copy the text formatting. This can be pretty useful when copy a text from a page to a word processor like Word.
However, for [...]

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It’s been a week of launches from our friends from Google. Let’s see what they’ve been doing for the past few days - Street View for Google Maps, Google Gears, and with Gears, they also launched the Google Mashup Editor.
By the sound of it, it is going to be Google’s match for Yahoo! Pipes. [...]

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