Bring the “Reload Image” feature of Firefox and Opera to Chrome
Online images often fail to load when you’re on a slow or flaky connection. Whenever this happens, most browsers (except Firefox, which shows the image title) replace the actual image with a broken image...
Bring Chrome-style Popup Status Bars To Safari And Opera
The status bar of a browser is a quick way to view the destination URL of any hyperlink, but it has little use beyond that. Hence, having it turned on all the time and occupy some vertical screen space...
Hone Your Typing Skills With TIPP10
TIPP10 is a cross-platform, open source app that aims to be your touch typing tutor. Like the previously mentioned TypingWeb, TIPP10 throws a series of typing ‘lessons’ at you, with gradually increasing...
How To Get The Portable Versions Of Popular DC++ Clients
Direct Connect (DC++) hubs are quite popular for sharing data among logged in users, especially so in residential college networks. A DC++ client is obviously required to tap into such hubs, with the most...
Get Quick-fire Information With The Google Talk Guru [Update: Discontinued]
UPDATE: In a recent move to streamline itself, Google has shuttered the entire Labs unit, which includes this particular bot.
If you’re a regular Google Talk user, here’s a useful chat bot that you...
“Text Only, Please!” Removes Clutter From Online Articles [Chrome]
Text Only, Please! is a no-frills Chrome extension that strips out junk from most web pages, and lets you focus on the actual article content. Once you have installed the extension, you will find a new...
How To Easily Create An Oil Painting Version Of An Image Using Paint.NET
There is something about oil paintings that makes me a big fan of them. Sometimes I come across an image, and I am instantly like, that should have been oil painted!
If you are like me, there’s some...
Delete Your Firefox Sync Data (If You’ve Switched To Chrome)
One of my favorite features in Firefox has always been the Sync extension. Back when I was a Firefox user, Firefox Sync was my online safe, taking care of passwords for 70-something online accounts, autofill...
Temporarily fix “Building font cache” pop-up in VLC player
You might have noticed that playing a video on a freshly installed VLC player usually triggers a ‘”Building font cache…” pop-up that stays for some time before allowing the video to play.
Technically,...
Create a Desktop Uploader App for imgur Using a Chrome Extension
imgur is one of my favorite image-sharing webapps, thanks to its sheer simplicity of uploading and sharing screenshots. The service also provides an API, which is used by a quite a few desktop tools and...
