Organize, Extract, Shorten And Share Links Using FCorp Link Manager

FCorp Link Manager is a powerful application that allows you to organize URLs in accordance with customized categories, search them instantly, synchronize and extract links from HTML files or the clipboard. With features like adding links to Explorer Favorites, Convert to PDF, Translate & Search using Google and the option to bookmark and share links using 342 built in social media websites with a single click, this software promises to assist you in extracting and sharing a wide range of useful links. In addition, features like Link Encoder & Decoder, export to the browser and URL Shortener (supporting 10 popular URL shortener websites) lets you perform a number of link-specific operations from a single platform. Read More

Bamboo Feed Reader For Firefox Conveniently Allows You To Manage Feeds

Bamboo Feed Reader is a Firefox add-on that enables you to monitor and manage your RSS feeds,  supporting Atom and RSS formats. You can easily add feeds by copy-pasting URLs. Furthermore, it allows you to block ads for HTML content, and provides automatic updates. The add-on features two different views for feeds; they can either be displayed as a List or Content. You can filter your feeds by selecting the All or Unread options. Read More

Nanny Blocks & Places Time Limit On Distracting Websites In Chrome

If you have been wasting too much time on distracting web sites like Facebook, Twitter and their likes, Nanny for Google Chrome extension can help you stay focused by partially limiting or blocking these time-sinks. This extension allows you to create sets of URLs to block by particular days and hours. You can even check the statistics category to see how much time you spend on each website. Read More

Convert Any URL To Charlie Dickens’s Quote With DickensURL

With hundreds of URL shortner services popping up every now and then. And complains of why newspapers should stop using shortened URLs. One Reddit user nicknamed ‘highwind’ got inspired by another redditor’s comment and coded away a new URL service called DickensURL.

Unlike other link shortner services, DickensURL does not actually shorten the original URL. Instead, it converts links to passages from the works of Charles Dickens. Just enter the URL, hit Convert, and share the inspiring quote filled links with your friends.

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How To Decode Shortened URLs To Original URLs

There are many services out there that let you shorten the URLs. Instead of sharing long URLs, you can share the shorter version. This comes really handy if you share links frequently on Twitter, FriendFeed, etc, but otherwise it can be quite a headache. With short URLs, you never know where the link might take you.

TinyURL Decoder is a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox that decodes the shortened URLs and shows the original URL instead. Don’t get confused by the name of the script, apart from decoding Tinyurl links it also decodes URLs from almost all other link shortner services. The complete list can be found on the developer’s script homepage.

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How To Share Files In Your Amazon S3 Account By Creating Public URLs

Many developers use Amazon S3 to store data, but you can actually use it for sharing large files with your friends and by large I mean, file of any size. S3 Browser is an Amazon S3 client which you can use to download and upload files from your account easily.  It also allows you to organize your Amazon S3 buckets and files, apart from that you can also set access controls. One great feature is to automatically create public URLs to share files, this can come handy if you use Amazon S3 frequently.

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How To View, Analyze, And Delete Contents Of Index.dat Files

Before I begin, let me explain how Index.dat can be a potential privacy threat to you. Index.dat files are hidden files on your computer that contain all tracks of your online activity, where have you been on internet, what sites you visited, list of URLs, files and documents you recently accessed. Index.dat Analyzer is a free utility through which you can find, view, examine and remove all information that you think preaches your privacy.  It can also come handy if you want to keep a check on your kids and family members.

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