Both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox present very simple ways to export and import bookmarks/favorites with other browsers. Now I’ll show you how easy it is.
Google translate is a very handy tool from Google that allows you to convert a passage of text from one language into another. Whether you want to translate an email from a pen pal in Indonesia or chat online with a cute Russian girl friend, Google Translate can rise to the occasion.
Many wireless network adapters install and present a different software by default, deactivating Windows’ one in the process, to allow you to configure and connect to wireless networks. Unfortunately they are often inadequate compared to Windows’ own configuration interface (believe it or not). This tutorial will show you how to revert back to the normal Windows wireless network configuration software to manage your connection.
Here are some great dedicated image search engines to help you find that perfect picture. Don’t just limit yourself to Google image search! Some of these search engines use complex algorithms to analyze and recognize the visual content (as opposed to just reading meta data or embedded keywords) of images making search far more accurate.
The Google news website works by aggregating and displaying news stories from other major news sites such as BBC News, CNN, Reuters and PC World. Visit the Google News home page and you will see headlining news stories under several categories; business, world news, health, sports and so on. Excerpts are given for each story and a link to the full article wherever that may be (CNN, BBC etc). You can with a little tweaking make Google news do your bidding and display news stories on its front page that suit your interests.
GMail Lab add-ons are Google experiments that add extra functionality to GMail. You can view the complete list by clicking on ‘Settings’ (top right hand corner of GMail window) and then clicking on the ‘Labs’ tab. To activate any add-on you click ‘Enable’ next to the add-on description and then the ‘Save Changes’ button. These features are experimental and hence can be removed and modified at any time so don’t get too attached!
LogMeIn is an awesome software service that allows you to access your computers remotely. Say you are at work but need to open a file that you left on your home computer. With LogMeIn you can establish a secure SSL encrypted channel for you to access your home computer and work on that file through your work computer.
PrintFriendly is a cool online application that prints web pages in a format that is a lot less taxing on your ink cartridge and your paper. It strips web page URLs that you specify of unnecessary navigation links, advertisements, widgets and other junk, leaving just the important content for you to print.
Most internet users are aware of video streaming problems from popular flash video websites such as YouTube and MetaCafe; slow and jerky buffering causing great videos to load irregularly. SpeedBit Video Accelerator is a free software application that aims to solve this problem. It offers up to five times faster video streaming from over 150 sites including MySpace, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Facebook, 5min, Reuters, Phtobucket, Bebo, Break, ESPN, AOL, CNN, Discovery, Veoh and many more.
There are many sites that will convert files into PDF format online. There is no need to download and install any software, an option you may be denied from carrying out on some computers you use. A disadvantage of online conversion is that there is often a size limit to files you can convert and larger files may take a long while to upload and convert.