If you regularly mistype your password because it is too complex or you're in a rush, Visual Hashing (free, Firefox, Chrome) will turn your password into a colored hash to you can immediately see whether you've typed it correctly or not. After you install this add-on, you'll be able to see a four-color visual "hash" in password inputs all around the web. The hash will update as you type. You can think of the hash as being your password's "fingerprint." Over time, you'll remember the colors associated with each password, which will prevent you from mistyping your passwords. That way, if
Read MoreCame across ShapeCatcher, a useful site that allows you to draw a shape and it suggests different unicode characters that match that shape. Finding a specific character whose name you don't know is cumbersome. Definitely beats looking through Window’s CharacterMap looking for that font that looks like a clock. In ‘real life’ you would simply draw a character or symbol and show it to someone, that is precisely how ShapeCatcher works. ShapeCatcher offers ‘unicode character recognition. How do I use it? Draw your character as best you can in the "drawbox". You can do this by clicking and holding the
Read MoreYouTube has a slick new design with some pretty tight Google+ social integration and content discovery features. Fret over the new YouTube hasn't yet appeared for you, well don't. Folks at The Verge (http://www.theverge.com) have figured out an easy way (via Google+ user Mortiz Tolxdorff) to turn on the new features right the heck now. At present, the trick only seems to work in Firefox and Chrome. Open up your browser’s development tools: For Firefox: Ctrl + Shift + K (Win) | Cmd + Shift + K (Mac) For Chrome: Ctrl + Shift + J (Win) | or Cmd + Alt + J
Read MoreSomewhere along the line, Microsoft went from being the powerhouse in the browser market to begging users to switch back to Internet Explorer. Now, Microsoft is running a "where's the love?" campaign to offer "free stuff" for users who download IE9. In fact, the holiday campaign offers prospective IE downloaders free music, movies, and other stuff. After all these years, hasn't Microsoft learned yet that it can't buy love? While IE may hold a lead over Firefox, Chrome and Safari individually, it's trounced by the trio overall. So Microsoft is responding not by improving IE and making it a
Read MoreThe Web: never before has there been a medium where it was so easy to find so much information. And never before has so much of it been so wrong. Somebody needs to fact-check the Internet. But who? Dan Whaley thinks it should be you. Whaley is behind a Kickstarter project called Hypothes.is. With Hypothes.is, Whalen wants to tackle the problem of rampant misinformation by combining Web annotation technology with a reputation system and peer moderation. Hypothes.is will work as a browser plug-in for Firefox, IE, and Chrome. It will add an overlay to Web pages with a heatmap along
Read MoreIf you're worried people might be using an image of yours without telling you, Who Stole My Pictures is a Firefox extension that lets you reverse search with a simple right-click. Reverse image search engines can be used to find copies of your images on the Internet. Who Stole My Pictures makes use of Yandex, Tineye, Google, Baidu and Cydral to search for your image. Though you can use those image search engines manually every time you want to find copies of a picture on the Internet, it is often faster and more comfortable to use a browser extension to
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Clea.Nr removes ads, comments make it simple and minimalistic
Annoyed of distracting, irritating content surrounding your videos on YouTube, you can hide them with simple browser extension Clea.Nr (free, Chrome,Firefox, Safari). Clea.Nr renovates the entire YouTube interface, making it simple and minimalistic: your video's search results are clean and uncontaminated by anything else, and your video plays in the center of the window without anything else around it. You can dim the lights around your video, click a button to show comments and related videos. So if you want to still use YouTube's other features, you can, but can get them out of the way when you don't. A
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