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Unhide or Show File Extensions in Windows 7 or 8

How To Unhide/Show File Extensions In Windows

[For newbies/beginners] By default, Windows has extensions set to hidden for known file types, and that prevents users from changing them directly. In what follows, we will show you how to unhide file extensions for all file types. (more…)

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News Factory: All Your Favorite Websites And Social News In One Place [Chrome]

News Factory, a Chrome extension, lets you view and read social news in a unique and interesting way. The extension makes use of your browsing history to detect and retrieve websites that can be added to the News Factory list. In addition to that, it automatically retrieves and updates Google Reader feeds. You can add [...] (more…)

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Open Secure: Open Links Over The HTTPS Protocol In Firefox

Browsing over a secure network is something you want to make more a habit out of than an option. Websites, by default, open pages over the HTTP protocol and not over HTTPS even if it is available. Among different ways to open a website over the HTTPS protocol, extensions are one. The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox [...] (more…)

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Display Search History From Google Goggles In Chrome

Google Goggles made image search on the go simple, all you need is your Android or iPhone, the free app and you’re all good to go. The app also makes it easier to translate text by uploading an image; extremely useful in case you’re visiting another country and having difficulty reading signs or directions. Ever [...] (more…)

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theTabs – Preview And Switch Between Tabs In Any Window [Chrome]

Are you an Internet Explorer fan while secretly being a closet Chrome or Firefox user or is it the other way around? You love a browser that isn’t Internet Explorer but there are times when you wish a certain feature from the Windows’ default browser would be added to your favorite one? One feature that [...] (more…)

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Remove Real-Time News Ticker From Right Sidebar In Facebook [Chrome]

Facebook has just rolled out some major design changes and all of Facebook’s population will be split in to three groups; the ones who are complaining about how God awful the new look is and threatening to stop using the site, the ones who have just joined the social networking site and really don’t know [...] (more…)

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Quick Links – One Button Access To Chrome Pages & Your Favorite Sites

Do you frequently enable and disable your bookmarks bar  (Ctrl+Shift+B) in Chrome? That is something that might signify you have a love-hate thing for the bookmarks bar. Chrome (like other browsers) allows you to save bookmarks to folders and keep only the very important ones on the bar itself but that’s not to say the [...] (more…)

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MoveThemAll – Move Photos From One Facebook Album To Another [Chrome]

If you frequently take pictures on the go and share them on Facebook, it’s likely that you’ve got a huge collection of pictures in either the Mobile uploads or Wall Photos. While Facebook conveniently allows you to move images from one album to another, you have to select the destination album for all image individually. [...] (more…)

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Insert Text Enters Frequently Used Text From Right Click Menu [Chrome]

If you frequently find you have to enter the same text, on different sites, on a regular basis in text fields then you must obviously know how annoying it can get be to type the same words over and over. Your clipboard can provide you a shortcut in this regard; you can save the text [...] (more…)

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Cookie Monster – Micro Manage Site & Domain Wide Cookies In Firefox

You know that most, if not all, site store cookies. What you might not know is that you can manage every single one of them any way you like. The reason you don’t is because it isn’t the easiest thing to do and no one can really be bothered with checking out which cookies each [...] (more…)

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Open In Chrome – Open All Firefox Tabs In Chrome From Tool Menu

If you’re a Firefox user or you, like many other people use two browsers (the other being Chrome), then it is highly likely that you’ve needed to migrate your browsing session from one browser to another. To do that, you have to copy every one of the links you have open in Firefox in to [...] (more…)

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NewTab – Open Links In New Tab Without Middle Mouse Button [Chrome]

When working on a laptop, a tablet or with a really old mouse that does not have a scroll wheel/ middle-click button, opening a link in a new tab means going through the right-click context menu. Not only is it inconvenient but it gets annoying after awhile especially if you have a fully functional mouse [...] (more…)

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Cookie Controller – View & Manage Cookies From Add-On Bar [Firefox]

It is highly unlikely that you individually choose to allow or deny every site you visit to save cookies. What’s probable is that you let all websites save cookies knowing they will be discarded when you close your browser. What happens is your browser remembers which sites you allowed to save cookies and references your [...] (more…)

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DropboxDiff – Open File Versions For Comparison From Dropbox [Chrome]

Dropbox lets you share files with either a single person or an entire group. You can allow anyone to modify a file in a shared folder, thus making it easier to collaborate on a document. What isn’t as easy is comparing different versions of the same file. DropboxDiff is a Chrome extension that simplifies it. [...] (more…)

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Screenshoter – Fast And Simplified Screen Capturing Tool For Firefox

Not every person needs to take a screenshot but for those that do, finding a good software to take it is important. The decision to use one software over the other can be based on the quality of the screenshot it takes, the ease of use and what features it has. Screenshoter is a Firefox [...] (more…)