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Pinnacle Lets You Hold Back Button In iOS Apps To Go To Main Menu Or Navigation History

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Anyone who switches to the iPhone from another smartphone is bound to feel a bit lost due to its minimalistic attitude towards hardware buttons. Even if a mobile device doesn’t have a dedicated shutter button, it is bound to have the essential Home and Back hardware buttons or softkeys. iOS, however, doesn’t roll that way, but that hasn’t stopped developers from coming up with alternative ways of navigating backwards in the OS. For example, tweaks like SwipeBack that make navigating bacwards within an app easier using gestures. Pinnacle is the latest addition to this sub-genre of tweaks. Unlike SwipeBack, Pinnacle isn't about going back one step in an app. The tweak is actually meant to help you easily return to the main page of any app that might have led you into its sub-menus. The greatest thing about Pinnacle though, it its ability to add a full ‘history’ list to the default back button in any app. Read More

Search & Browse The History Of All Web Browsers On A PC From One Place

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Every major internet browser saves the history of all the webpages that you have visited, including all your web searches. The purpose of this feature is to let you easily locate a web page that you have visited in the past, and can be a lifesaver if you have forgotten an important URL. A lot of people use more than one browser (I myself use Mozilla Firefox as my main browser and Google Chrome as the secondary one). Sometimes when you are looking for a particular URL in your browser history, you forget which browser you originally used to access the webpage, and Windows does not allow you to search the history of all browsers at once. Internet History Browser is a free portable tool for Windows that changes that, by letting you view and search your complete browsing history across all major browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari. Read More

How To Disable And Delete Chat History In OS X Messages

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iChat, OS X’s stock chat client, became Messages when Mountain Lion rolled out. For the most part Messages is the same as iChat with one major difference; it now saves your chat history and given someone has iOS 6 on their iOS device, you can make / receive FaceTime calls from them in Messages. Chat history was welcomed by many users given old conversations can be revisited, images and files can be sent, and reminders can be created from date and time mentioned in chat. Though chat history is a good feature, there's nothing to say that users wouldn’t like to disable it or occasionally clear their history. The process is extremely simple and detailed below. Read More

eHistory: Add Time-Based Search Filters To Chrome’s Default History Page

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Chrome is amazing as a web browser, but it’s default history page lacks some basic filtering features, which make things difficult especially when it comes to complex search queries. For instance, the page does not allow you to filter items by date or domain, and if you want to find a particular link that you visited in the past, then you have to scroll down the very lengthy history page. eHistory is a Google Chrome extension that customizes the default history page and adds advanced search features to it, which allow you to filter results by date, title, domain, text and more. The options become available when you click the Advanced button on the page. In addition to that, you will find three options for deleting items, including Delete selected, Delete all search results and Clear History options. Read More

Get A Slick New Tab Page With A News Feed & Built-In Translator [Chrome]

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Chrome has a simple yet functional new tab page; you have speed dial, the bookmarks bar and a second page dedicated to Chrome apps. Despite the presence of this basic functionality, you will often come across extensions that allow you to change how the new tab page looks and works. Most extensions make use of the information that the browser already collects and display them in a more user friendly way while others add some extra features as well. New Tab Feeder is a Chrome extension that modifies the new tab page; in addition to sprucing up the appearance of speed dial and giving you better control over which sites are saved to it; it also lets you view news feed from select sites, translate text right from the new tab, take screenshots and upload them online, and customize the new tab page background. Read More

Web Historian: Collectively Monitor & Analyse Usage History Of All Browsers On A PC

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Generally, all the major web browsers come with integrated history managers that let you view all websites accessed, programs downloaded or cookies transferred to the computer. Web Historian grabs this idea and goes a few steps further, by providing detailed reports and analysis of web history, for not just one but of all popular internet browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Coupled with a user-friendly interface, this excellent utility allows you to monitor your personal web usage, as well as that on your kids’ or employees' systems, through thorough scanning of Web, Cookies and Download history of supported browsers.  Furthermore, it lets you view statistical graphs of the results. Details to follow. Read More

Save A History Of YouTube Videos Viewed On Any Webpage [Chrome]

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After watching several entertaining videos on YouTube, you might want to revisit a previously watched one. There are a couple of ways to do this; you can either search your browser history, or you can search YouTube’s own history, which requires that you're logged in. In the absence of the latter case, searching the browser history can be a difficult and time consuming task. Video History For YouTube makes life easier by keeping a track of your YouTube activity. Not only does it work on YouTube's own website, but also records embedded videos from other blogs/websites and saves them in a list for later viewing. Moreover, it notifies you when there are new items from your Subscribed channels. Also, the Popular Videos category lets you view videos by This Week, This Month and All Time options. Read More

Delete Messages Chat History For Any Date Or Contact On Mac [Tip]

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We reviewed OS X Mountain Lion’s Messages when it first debuted its Beta version, and at that time, one of its noteworthy features (which we duly noted) was the chat history. For those of you who forget what you were talking about yesterday, chat history lets you keep every one of those conversations forever. Regardless of whether you were discussing ways to hack into top secret government files and change your name to James Bond, or just trying to decide where to eat, those conversations will be saved. The slight problem here is, while some conversations should be saved for future reference, others should be wiped off the face of the earth (or atleast your Mac), and Messages has no way to delete your chat history. It doesn’t even have a help topic on deleting chat history, so it is safe to assume there is no button or menu that can do it. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible, it just needs to be done manually. Read More

Know Each Day’s Important Events & Holidays With On This Day [WP7]

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Even if you are not much of a history buff, certain days and dates do hold an importance in everyone’s life. Have you ever wondered which historical figures have shared the same birth date with you? Or on a fine Saturday morning, thought if today was significant in any way for any culture? On This Day is an app for Windows Phone 7 that will let you find out the significant events associated with the current date, as well as any given day. The events listed by this Mango app include birthdays, holidays, deaths and a host of other important happenings which you might be interested in. You can learn more about On This Day by heading past the break. Read More

Transform The Location Bar Into A Breadcrumb Display [Firefox]

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Location Bar Enhancer changes the location bar of Firefox into a Breadcrumb display, with rich and interactive features. This handy add-on displays the URL in a Breadcrumb trail manner, with visual tags for easy identification, and also provides an easy to access context menu for each part. With it, you can quickly access the original URL in plain text, either by clicking the right of the last part, or Ctrl+ hover your mouse over any part. Moreover, each part can be dragged and dropped to any location, for instance, the Bookmarks toolbar, Bookmarks folder, tab, desktop or any other folder. The add-on also Includes a feature for detecting and replacing gibberish parts of the URL with meaningful text. Furthermore, the options allow you to fully customize the add-on according to your preference. Read More

History Viewer: Check Browser & Windows’ Activity Of Your PC

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All major browsers have a history pane that allow you to view all the webpages that have been opened on your computer, sometimes even up to a couple of months back. This allows you to locate and access a URL even if you did not/could not bookmark it. Windows also saves history for visited locations, recently opened documents, searched items, Run history, typed paths etc. The problem faced when trying to access the Windows history lies in the fact that there is no central location for  accessing it. History Viewer is an application that allows you to access the history of all your installed browsers and Windows components from a single interface. Moreover, you can create HTML reports of the items included in the history lists. Read on to find out more. Read More

FindList: Dropdown List For Firefox Find-In-Page With History Feature

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Firefox's word search function can search one word after another, without keeping a history of the previously entered words. This means when you're searching multiple webpages or websites, you have to enter the same search words over and over again. Not only can this be tiring, but also a time consuming process. FindList, a Firefox add-on, turns the find box to a drop-down history list, and saves the last 50 searches on a web page. So, while browsing the web, you can simply access and select words from this drop-down list. In addition to that, the number of entries can easily be changed from the FindList Preferences. Read More

Access Chrome’s Recent History, Closed Tabs & Bookmarks From Omnibar

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Recent History, a Chrome extension, displays your Recent History, Recently Closed Tabs, Most Visited Items and Recent Bookmarks in a one-click pop-up. Recent History provides users with a better history manager, and comes with an extensive list of options. You can change the number of items displayed in the pop-up, the pop-up icon, width and theme from options. Recent History lets you view recent history, recently closed tabs and bookmarks right in your browser, without having you to navigate to the full history page. You can also share, pin and delete individual items from this very useful pop-up. Read More

Tab Sidebar Reloaded: Preview & Access History For Open Tabs [Firefox]

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Managing and sifting through multiple open tabs while researching a topic can be a difficult and a cumbersome task. Tab Sidebar Reloaded, a Firefox add-on, provides users with a sidebar in the browser that acts as the main tab bar, but with added features. With it, you can get a preview of tabs that gets continuously updated, so you don’t have to visit such tabs over and over again. Another very useful feature is that, every tab comes with history, reload and stop options, which conveniently allow you to navigate between multiple open tabs. The tab preview is automatically refreshed whenever the page changes, and you can also hide the main tab bar when the sidebar is open. The options allow you to display the sidebar on the right, left, top and bottom of the page. Tab Sidebar Reloaded enhances your web browsing experience by quickly letting you switch and manage tabs. Read More

Filter And Clear Google Chrome History By Date, Name & Number Of Visits

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As good a web browser as Chrome is, its default history page is quite bland and feature-limited, with no options to filter items by date, name or frequency of visits. For instance, if you want to find a particular link, the only option you have, is to scroll down the unending default history page. The way the history itself is presented makes it impossible to make any sense of it and that is itself a shortcoming. Surprisingly, Google has never thought to make this page any better and that is why you will find many extensions that aim to make your browsing history much more useful and easier to browse, search or clean up. As far as these extensions go, Enhanced History is one extension that definitely gets it right. It is a Chrome extension that modifies the history page, and transforms it into a more enhanced version with date and name filters. The Enhanced History page also lets users view the number of visits for a particular website. Additionally, you will find three basic customization options on the right hand side of the page, comprising Delete All History, Delete History Range and Delete Matching URLs. Read More

History Timeline: Elegant Interface For Finding Visited Links [Chrome]

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Navigating Chrome’s history page to find a particular link isn’t easy because it is a mess. While you can’t call it cluttered, the history page isn’t very function; the search feature lacks in accuracy and items are sorted by date only and not by hour marks which makes it all the more difficult to find a page you previously visited or want to delete. History Timeline, a Chrome extension, allows users to conveniently find links by replacing the default history page with an interactive timeline view. Tabs that are opened at the same time appear side by side in the timeline, and each domain comes with a different color. Additionally, page visits have a start time and an end time as well, which can help users to track the time they spend on each website. Read More

Location Navigate: Record Cursor Positions & Navigate Between Them [Notepad++]

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Notepad++ is one of the most powerful alternatives to Window Notepad, which supports a wide range of programming languages with syntax highlighting and code editing features. The main reason for its superiority over the default Notepad is the plugins available for performing advanced operations. The Plugin Manager contains a massive number of plugins that allow users to perform, both plain text editing, and programming language related functions from within the interface. Normally, to perform different levels of editing, we have to switch between different applications, but the available plugins for Notepad++ provide users with everything they need from directly within the interface. Location Navigate is a plugin for Notepad++ that automatically records cursor positions, allowing you to navigate between recorded cursor positions later on. It supports hotkey combinations to jump to next and previous cursor positions in the list. When you modify the text, it automatically updates cursor location history. It also supports jumping between both currently open and closed files. This allows users to easily re-check their previously accessed locations in the document. Read More

Clear Firefox Browsing History, Cache, Cookies By Date & Time [Add-on]

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Firefox browsing history is definitely smarter than Google Chrome’s, but there’s no saying that it can’t get better. Between the two browsers, Firefox lets users sort the pages they’ve visited in several different ways, which makes it easier to find a certain web page you visited several weeks ago and to delete recent history. Precise Clear History is a Firefox add-on that amplifies the Clear Recent History function, and allows you to delete history for any specific date or date range, all down to the minute or hour. Read More

History Plus: View Chrome History By Date, Domain And Time Slot

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Despite being a Chrome fan, there isn’t any denying that the Firefox History Manager is better. While both browsers save the same information as you browse web pages, Firefox actually lets users browse their history using different aspects of that saved information; you can filter history by date or by domain but Chrome just won't let you do that. Better History was a Chrome extension reviewed a while back that allowed you to sort pages in time slots but the extension only sorted the pages you visited post installation. History Plus is a Chrome extension that sorts your entire browsing history by date, time slot and by domain. Page visits to the same domain are listed in a hierarchical order. You can search history and filter results to show only pages visited today, yesterday, the previous week or last month. You can restrict it to showing only 100, 250, 500 or 1000 results when you search your history. Read More

Historious Athens For Android: Navigate To Historical Locations Around Athens

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Love exploring historical places? Looking for a feasible travel route to one? Try Historious – a location based travel guide for Android that makes tracking nearby (and the world's most famous) historical places quite convenient. Designed specifically for tourists, Historious packs some very useful background description, maps, routes and images relevant to various locations that reflect the history of a particular location. The app also helps you locate other nearby facilities (shops, hotels and bars etc.) to keep you entertained while you’re on a visit. Read More