Ranjan asks: I share my computer with my friends and I have bookmarked a few websites that I don’t want them to see. How can I password protect my bookmarks in Firefox? There may be times when you don’t want to share some of your bookmarks with other people using the same computer. For such [...]
Using Print Screen on Mac OS X is quite easy. In a PC, unless you are using Snipping Tool provided with higher versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, you have to necessarily copy the screen capture to an image editor to get the final result whereas in Mac the screen capture can be automatically [...]
Allen asks: While working on my PC, I accidently deleted Recycle Bin icon from the desktop. How can I get it back? Unlike Windows XP or Windows 7, when you right click the Recycle Bin icon in Windows Vista, you get the option to “Delete” it. It’s not uncommon for users to confuse “Empty Recycle [...]
Ian asks: I need to download a CNN video to embed in my PowerPoint presentation. Is there any free CNN Video Downloader that I can use? News sites like CNN stream FLV videos in a way that it hides the actual URL of the video behind JavaScript. However once you start streaming the video, its [...]
Rex asks: I love Chrome because I can search anything from the address bar itself. Can I add the functionality of searching from Address Bar in Firefox too? Most of the web browsers today handle invalid URL input as a query string and search for it using default search engine provided. Firefox is a bit [...]
The success of iPad has led many a website owners’ redesign their website layouts for iPad. If you too are a website owner but you don’t have the luxury to own an iPad as yet, you can use Apple iPad User Agent String to check how your website would looks in iPad’s Safari. Here is [...]
Hostgator is perhaps the best webhosting company for blogs and websites alike. We host several of our sites at Hostgator and we are truly amazed by their service, uptime and customer support. We recommend it most of the bloggers who ask us for suggestions as it offers most affordable hosting plans for the quality of [...]
Ryder asks: My wife has just got a new MAC. We need to export all her bookmarks from Firefox in my PC to Safari in her MAC. How do we do it? Bookmarking is one of the best features of the modern day web browsers. With a simple Ctrl + D , the browser saves [...]
Jim asks: The DVD drive on my laptop doesn’t work. Is there any way I can install Windows 7 from a flash drive? Jim, there are many ways by which you can install Windows 7 from a flash drive. However assuming the fact the most of our readers are not exactly computer experts, we would [...]
Google Chrome and all other web browsers store some files from websites in its local cache. This cache (stored files) generally includes previously displayed images, texts, style sheets, JavaScript etc. To see for yourself what Google Chrome has stored in its cache type “about:cache” in the address bar ( Omnibox). While cache files don’t take [...]