Do you love reading the latest articles on the web? Do you have a phone or other mobile device that can access the web but only in limited ways? Tidyread.com is the answer to your dilemma! Tidyread.com provides a very simple but very powerful service for →
Skip introductory video ad clips with AdBlock Video Firefox plugin
Everyone is familiar with the ad clips that are a mainstay of video/news services such as Hulu or NBC, that are shown before the actual programming. Typically 20 or 30 seconds in duration, these are no major nuisance in small doses; except with more and more people →
Minus: share large files and photos with this stylish cloud hosting app
If I’ve seen one file sharing web service in the past few months I’ve seen a about twenty. But this one stands out from the pack in several respects; most notably its (ad-free) stylishness and support for multiple platforms and devices. Minus is a file hosting →
Lazarus form recovery: never lose any text or comment typed into an online form again
Ever spent a long time typing in a review or a comment or filling out a long form on a website, only to lose your text unexpectedly when you encounter an error or accidentally move off the page?. If so, this software can help. Lazarus is →
Adblock v. Adblock Plus: two Chrome extensions compared
Chrome Extensions are small programs that modify and enhance the functionality of the Chrome browser. The two most popular extensions listed in the Webstore are “AdBlock” and “Adblock Plus” – but which one of the two is the better one? This post will explore the differences between →
LastPass finally available on Opera
If you don’t know LastPass, I would describe it as the ultimate free cloud-based password manager and form filler. While hitherto available as a plug-in or extension for other browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari), it has finally come to Opera with the release of the →
ClipNabber: download videos from a wide range of services, on any browser (including Chrome)
I was recently doing research for a post (Twelve Must Have Extensions for Google Chrome) and was surprised that there did not seem to be any simple “download any video from any video sharing site” extensions for Chrome, similar to DownThemAll or Download Helper for Firefox. →
SkipScreen: Firefox extension automates downloading from file hosting services such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, or Mediafire
Anyone who has every downloaded files from file hosting services such as Rapidshare or Megaupload is well familiar with the ritual “dance” involved in the process, which consists of waiting for on-screen counters to count-down then moving through multiple screens until at long last your download link →
IE7Pro: a Swiss Army Knife of add-ons for Internet Explorer
IE7Pro is a free add-on for Internet Explorer that introduces a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE experience more useful. IE7Pro includes tabbed browsing management, spell check, inline search, super drag and drop, crash recovery, a proxy switcher, mouse gestures, a history browser, →
uBrowser
uBrowser is an open source, multiplatform experimental browser that renders web pages into 3D geometrical objects. It was designed primarily to integrate web content into a 3D virtual world called Second Life. If you like this site then you’l love Freewaregenius rendered into a 3D cube →
