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Tinkerers always find their way. When you’re looking from far above, browsers like Chrome and websites like YouTube and Facebook look impenetrable. But it’s all built on the same code. Some basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript to shape what you see and se

It’s amazing how Google Docs has evolved and continued to gained features over the years.

Google has recently announced yet another very useful feature for Google Docs, as well as for Google Sheets – third-party add-ons. This means that Office Web Apps’ main competitor has become even better.

Microsoft’s OneNote is an interesting and feature-rich note-taking application from the Redmond giant. You can draw on the page, insert images and files, and paste text and links among other things. While it’s very robust, it can still take

Google Search has got better and better with some nice algorithm tweaks. But when it comes to real-time search , Google still lags behind in the field where Twitter is the uncrowned king. Google did have a spell with it, but by July 2011 it lapsed

Most of the users including me use the features like Mark as unread and Star Conversation for emails they want to deal with later on. However, most of the times the unread list becomes so long or we just forget about an email that we never resp

In the past we have seen many ways using which we can bypass the country restrictions imposed by sites like Hulu and Netflix and browse them like a US user to watch videos. The latest service that we saw was Tunlr, using which we could easily change

There is always a worry associated with online accounts and profiles. You never know who’s watching. Regardless of this threat, we cannot avoid using emails as a mode of communication. Besides, email services keep trying new things to secure our e

Extensions are what give browsers their usability, and turn them into single-window “clearing houses” for all that we do on the web. But browser add-ons and extensions come with baggage.

In the past, we have covered many browser related tricks that required you to install user scripts that were not listed on Chrome Web Store but still worked flawlessly. However, the latest version of Chrome now doesn’t let you do that.

Whenever I search for an image on Google Image Search, I have just one thing in mind – to view the image. But instead Google first opens up the web  page that has the image, with the image in a pop-over frame and only after you click on the fu

Sometimes, you may have a need to automatically refresh a webpage. You could be following a game score, or some news, or maybe you are awaiting results to get declared on your college website and a long refresh countdown can be highly demoralizing. P

It is said, and no doubt is true, that if you have focus then everything else just falls in place. If you are always in the zone of focus while working then disregard this post.

Gmail, no doubt, is a top notch email service. However, there’s a good bit of clutter that’s there on its interface if you compare it with desktop email clients. While Gmail offers customization options through Gmail Labs , for the minimalist

A few days back we talked about the three best download managers for Firefox. If you are anything like me, then you probably like to mirror the add-ons you have on Firefox with similar extensions on Chrome. That is, if you use both browsers like I do

Download Management is one of the more populated sections in the Firefox Add-ons gallery. And why not, as with unlimited bandwidths, we are all download junkies. I used to use a dedicated download manager. I still do, but I also have a partial likene

When I say, YouTube has become my lifeline these days, trust me, I am not exaggerating. Now that I have started living alone, YouTube helps me a lot. Be it cooking and housekeeping tutorials, playing music videos, watching shows or other such stuff.

PDF is a dominant and well-used document format, so it’s natural that there are conversion tools for every sort of need you can throw at it.

Printing a webpage is one thing that usually eats up a lot of paper and printer ink. And the very reason for this is the clutter that resides on most of the sites out there. One definitely does not want to see useless advertisements all over the prin

There are a number of ways to share information online. In fact, I should say there are a number of ‘mediums’ because the way of sharing is more or less the same: passing on the link of the webpage you want to share.