The easiest way to download YouTube videos: add ‘pwn’ to the URL

Imagine the scene: You’re visiting family and watching YouTube videos (naturally- isn’t this what all families do?) and your mother/brother/father wants to download the...

How to enable or disable many hidden experimental features in Chrome

Chrome has many different options built in that could make your internet life easier, or at least more interesting. Examples of these include side...

Retrieve a list of the last internet searches performed on a PC using “My...

Freeware "My Last Search" reveals searches performed on the major internet major search engines for both IE and Firefox. If you’ve ever needed to recall...

Toggle the internet on and off from the system tray, with InternetOff

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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...

How to download videos from Hulu: a step by step guide (updated)

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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...

A comparison of FREE Cloud Storage Services

Now that the biggest tech companies in the world are taking aim at Dropbox (with Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon all offering their own cloud...

Ask questions of Facebook friends anonymously with wannaask.me

wannaask.me is a nifty gadget that lets you ask questions on Facebook anonymously. It’s free, fun and can be amazingly informative for both long...

How to surf sites that are blocked by your ISP or a company firewall

This posting will present a number of free options that can provide access and/or allow surfing of sites that are blocked by a corporate...

Free Stock Ticker: display a real time stock ticker on your desktop

Free Stock Ticker is a free, small app designed to display stock ticker(s) on your desktop, as well as stock related headlines as hovering...

Two FREE tools to grab images in batch from any website: OWIDIG and ‘Image...

Ever wanted to download multiple images images from a page all at once? There are a number of good utilities out there for this...

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