Disabling Firefox’s Offline Mode
Sometimes Firefox automatically switches to “Offline Mode” [Work Offline Mode] on trivial issues like a router reboot or a temporary DNS Error. The trouble is, FF fails to come back out of it even after the...
Category: Tips n Tricks
How to Change Default Search in Firefox
My new laptop came with “AVG Secure Search” as the default engine and it was pretty annoying. Typing a query in the addressbar and hitting enter would throw up AVG’s SERP. Here’s how to change it:...
Securely browse Gmail and Facebook
Browsing via HTTPS (HyperText Transport Protocol – Secure) combines the normal HTTP with SSL/TLS protocol and provides encrypted communications between the host (webserver) and the client(your PC). The advantage of using HTTPS is that no-one can...
Disable Facebook’s Automatic Facial Recognition
There’s one thing pesky about Facebook. Every time they come out with a new feature, it’s ‘enabled’ by default. It’s not always an opt-in. The latest one is FB automatically suggesting your friends on tagging your...
Find out who Unfriended you on Facebook
Who Deleted Me is Facebook app that, according to its author – does something which is largely agreed that Facebook itself should do: letting you know who has unfriended or deleted you. It is a known...
Disabling Facebook’s Theater Mode for Albums
Facebook rolled out the ‘Theater Mode’, a fullscreen lightbox-like jQuery photo viewer for displaying photos and albums a while back. This was not taken well with the community. Here are a few ways to override the...
Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts
Here is a compiled list of available shortcuts for Facebook Power Users. The shortcuts differ slightly for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome. Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts for Firefox Shift+Alt+1: Facebook’s homepage Shift+Alt+2: Your Facebook profile page Shift+Alt+3:...
Get extra 512MB free in Dropbox
If you aren’t aware, Dropbox is a simple and powerful online file storage service that lets you backup, restore and sync data across multiple platforms and lets you share your data with friends. By default, you...
Unable to upload new background image on Twitter?
Have you been trying to change your twitter background and have been geting the “There was a problem saving your profile customisation” error? Twitter saves all the options (from all the tabs in the settings page)...
Hide files inside JPEG Images and videos
Got to know of this handy utility for Windows called OmniHide. It basically allows you to hide files within other files. I have tried it to: Hide files inside avi video file Hide files inside pdf...
