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Open Chrome Windows Into A Singular Chrome Window With JoinTabs

Tabbed browsing allows us to save a lot of space in the Taskbar. Each new browser window takes up space in the Taskbar. Tabbed browsing makes sure only one browser window is open; this occupies the least space on the Taskbar. We can then open as many webpages we want in this single window using tabs.

However sometimes when we click a link in some other program or even within our open browser window, it opens in a new browser window, rendering tabbed browsing useless. We need a way to merge all tabs being used into one browser window rather than spreading them out into multiple windows.

By Umar Anjum

Get Quick And Easy Access To Your Favorite Bookmarks With Iconized

Modern web browsers for desktops and laptops often have a bookmarks bar where we can place shortcuts to our favorite websites. The point is to have these bookmarks always accessible and not need to click any extra links or buttons to get to them.

Since the space on the bookmarks bar is limited, we need to be careful about which websites we add on it. If we add too many websites, our shortcuts on the bar become scrollable and in addition to clicking an extra button to reach our shortcut, it becomes more difficult to find our desired bookmark.

A quick fix for this problem comes in Iconized Bookmarks Popup.

By Umar Anjum

Add Unsorted Bookmarks Folder Menu In Firefox To Categories Unsorted Bookmarks

While it is undoubtedly one of the most stable and impressive internet browsers out there, Firefox still has a considerable journey ahead to become the best browser. This journey is significantly shortened by developers from all over the world who contribute to the Mozilla project by creating wonderful add-ons. These add-ons, plug-ins, and extensions improve the overall functionality of Firefox making it a lot more pleasurable to use.

By Umar Anjum

Get Fast Access To All Your Google Tools In Chrome With MyShortcuts

The main reason for me to shift from Firefox to Chrome was the speed and performance it was offering me. At first it really didn’t had any extensions and I was not able to improve my work productivity but as soon as the extensions hit the market I was one of the many people I know who migrated from Firefox to Chrome.

By Umar Anjum

For Chrome: Clear Browsing History With A Click Of A Button

Clearing our browser’s cache is a good practice. It reduces the clutter on our hard disk and leads to better performance. More importantly cache clearing is a way to maintain our browsing privacy. Cache clearing ensures that another user on our computer is not able to view our browsing history. During cache clearing we also delete cookies that track our internet activity.

Apart from a browser’s built in tools, there are numerous third party tools that enable users to wipe their data off their browser. Usually this clearing requires a browser restart. Since this might cause an inconvenience for some users who would like to continue work on the currently opened webpage, I searched for a competent cache clearing tool that would not restart the browser.

By Umar Anjum

5 Must-Have Firefox Extensions For Bloggers

Do you own a website or blog? Does your job involve search engine optimization of any sort? If you answered yes, then Firefox should be your default internet browser. I say this because of Firefox’s amazing array of add-ons to make life easier for bloggers and webmasters.

If you need some convincing, then read on my gathered list of 5 add-ons which will greatly help you do your job once you switch over to Firefox. If Firefox is already your default browser of choice, then just read each entry carefully and see how each add-on can enhance Firefox for your web tasks.

By Umar Anjum

View Hundreds Of Channels From Around The World In Chrome With TV Chrome

Recently I was thinking how to initiate recording a TV channel via Windows 7 Media Center. The problem was that I needed to do this remotely, in case I was not at home, remembered that a series I liked was being aired on TV, and wanted it recorded. After much extensive searching, I finally found an application called Remote Potato.

Setting up Remote Potato was no child’s play and it took me quite some time. I am still not satisfied with it. When I told a fellow blogger about my predicament, he asked “But if you can access the internet while you’re away from home, why not simply use it to view television online?” I asked him what he meant and he answered “TV Chrome.”

By Umar Anjum

7 Great Chrome Extensions To Make Your Life Easier

You might have been using Chrome for a quite some time now but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Chrome’s maximum potential lies in the power of its extensions. Below I have gathered 7 Chrome extensions that will enable you all to realize Chrome’s full potential. You will not find these extensions in similar lists on other websites; I hope you find them to be useful to your computer usage.

Give the list a thorough reading, try out any extension you are interested in, and let me know in the comments how they worked out for you.

By Umar Anjum

How To Organize/View Your Feeds In A Magazine Like Start Pages In Chrome

Recently I came across a great website titled Fav4. It provides users with a four thumbnail shortcuts to websites. The websites can be selected from a list of the most social media websites. Fav4 has an appealing look and can serve as a great clutter-free start-page for any user.

But what if I need a start-page that does not only provide me a link to my most frequented sites, but also extracts the latest updates from them and shows them all to me neatly? I asked a blogger friend about this and his suggestion was more than satisfactory: Feedly.

By Umar Anjum

9 Insanely Useful Firefox Add-Ons That Will Save Your Time

As we all know that Firefox is the fastest growing popular web browser and its growing more and more every day. There are too many handy options provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. You can easily find lots of free download able firefox add-ons and extensions that are available on the internet, we also featured few of them before and it’s demands are increasing. In this post, I am listing down9 Insanely Useful Firefox Add-ons That Will Save Your Time . I would love to know at least one of your most favorite firefox add-0n that saves your time and could be the part of this list.

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5 Great Extensions To Manage Various Tasks On Google Chrome

From opening a new tab to restoring or saving our session, we perform various tasks in our internet browsers. Sometimes these tasks are present in the browser in an already convenient enough manner to make life easier for the user. But at other times, in the form of extensions and add-ons, third-party developers make these browser tasks easier for us.

Since I use Chrome most of the time, I gathered 5 browser extensions which I think most Chrome users will appreciate. These extensions facilitate users in different ways, from saving our browsing sessions and managing our tabs to letting us choose hotkey shortcuts.

By Umar Anjum

9 Powerful Firefox Add-Ons That Can Save Your Time

As we all know that Firefox is the fastest growing popular web browser and its growing more and more every day. There are too many handy options provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. You can easily find lots of free download able firefox add-ons and extensions that are available on the internet, we also featured few of them before and it’s demands are increasing. In this post, I am listing down 9 Powerful Firefox Add-Ons That Can Save Your Time.

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85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

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11 Amazing Free Web Applications To Make Your Lives Easier

This is one of the useful list of its kind where you can find the must have online web apps that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work. I hope web designers and developers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of11 Free Online Apps That Could Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009

The year 2009 is almost ended. We have explored and reviewed so many useful tools and resources for you all the year. Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2010. I hope designers, developers and programmers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. They are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009 at Work. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier

This is one of the useful list of its kind where you can find the must have online web apps that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work. I hope web designers and developers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For

Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who support us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our computer life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/softwares that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list down exactly but we are tried to make a list of 15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving all of you too…

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Now Create Professional Quality Presentations On The Web With Preezo

Preezo is an Ajax web application that gives you the power to create and share professional quality presentations over the web without software or plugins.

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Triple Engine+Triple Add-ons=Lunascape

Few days ago, we have discussed about Lunascape. Today we are covering it again because Lunascape is now compatible with the expanding array of Firefox add-ons in addition to the already supported Internet Explorer add-ons and Lunascape plug-ins. Transferring your add-ons from Firefox 3.5 is very easy.

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80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

By Team