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Decode original long URL from short URL easily

by Avinash March 19, 2010 Internet
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Those of you who use social networking services like twitter, facebook etc. know very well that apart from normal use, these social networking is used extensively  by spammers for spamming using shortened URLs. These short URLs are created using URL shortening services like bit.ly, cli.gs, digg.com, fb.me, is.gd, j.mp, kl.am, su.pr, tinyurl.com, goo.gl and many more.
These short URLs are often .....

Browse web safely with WOT (Web of trust) Firefox/ IE /Chrome Addon

by Avinash February 8, 2010 Internet
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Sometime I get amazed by the number of Addons available with Firefox for doing almost anything you need online or offline on the computer. Today I will be talking about a simple Addon ( Firefox and IE both) WOT which will make your browsing experience safer by warning you about risky or dangerous sites even before you click, that cheat innocent people, deliver .....

Download Friend’s Complete Photo Album on Facebook

by Avinash February 6, 2010 Internet
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How many of you are Facebook fans or Facebook users at least? Even if you are not a Facebook user, many of your friends will be. Often you navigate or browse through Pics or Photo Album of your friends, colleagues or family. But there is no option available on Facebook to download the full album on your computer so that .....

Synchronize your Firefox bookmarks, history, tabs and passwords wherever you go.

by Avinash February 1, 2010 Internet
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There are many Addons available with Firefox that do the work of maintaining your bookmarks well, but none of them offer you the ability to sync open tabs, history, passwords, preferences, and Firefox 3’s advanced Location Bar (often called Awesome Bar) data.
Weave is the first Addon doing something like the  things I talked about above and is developed by Mozilla .....

PrivacyChoice Opt-out: Protect your privacy from ad networks

by Avinash November 25, 2009 Internet

All of you must have seen ads on almost every page including this site. These ads are served by third party companies (like Adbrite, Adsense and many more) as the websites are don’t have a full fledged advertising team dedicated for this. These companies collect and use information about visitor’s activities & interests on those sites unless the visitor choose .....

Make firefox Faster in a single click with Fasterfox lite

by Avinash September 9, 2009 Internet

Few days back , i wrote about 10 ultimate ways to make Firefox perform blazing fast. That post involved tweaking of settings to be done by editing the advance settings configuration page of Firefox. The process can be very difficult for many novice users and those who doesnt want to play with deep settings of the browser or the operating .....

70+ toolbar, apps (Badware) installed silently with Programs

by Avinash September 2, 2009 Software
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Some of you would remember I wrote a similar article few months back. This article is in continuation of that with a bigger and updated list. Most of you are so lazy or ignorant  enough not to click the custom option of installation of any application on your PC.  This small laziness results in installation of toolbars, applications you never .....

Solution to “cannot install addon in Firefox”

by Avinash August 10, 2009 Internet

Today i had formatted my system and installed everything again due to some problems i had before. I  installed firefox and imported my backup of bookmarks and settings of Firefox i had made before using Mozbackup.
But when i  tried to install addons  like adblockplus and few more, i started to get error, “Unexpected installation error  Review the Error Console log .....

Download YouTube Videos Easily And Quickly

by Avinash July 18, 2009 Internet

For most users over the web, you tube is part of their day to day browsing experience and integral part of internet. There are many dozens of methods available over the net to download You tube videos. I will talk about one of the easiest methods to download them.
For this method, you need to use Firefox and one of the .....

Navigate Firefox in 3D with Foxtab

by Avinash April 14, 2009 Internet

I am a big fan of Firefox and have been using it for last few years since it came. One of the reasons that make it my favorite is availabilty of tons of Addons for firefox for various purposes.
Many of you love to work on your system with some fancy and designed look of your desktop and the applications e.g.  .....